Echthroplexiella

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Last updated August 2019

1 Mesosoma dorsally at least partially yellow; mesopleuron dark; macropterous specimens with forewings maculated centrally …………………………………………………………….…. sp. 1
1’ Mesosoma completely dark dorsally; mesopleuron yellow; wings hyaline …………………  sp. 2

 

Sp. 1: El Dorado, Lassen, Marin, Nevada, Santa Barbara (RLZC), San Bernardino (UCRC). Both macropterous and brachypterous specimens. The color can vary: head from all black to all yellow. Mesosoma usually all black except with yellow scutum, but occasionally pronotum or scutellum also yellow. Metasoma mostly black dorsally, sometimes yellow basally.
Sp. 2: Inyo (UCRC)

 

Described Nearctic species and distribution

None

 

Remarks

My “sp. 1” is the same as the “sp. 2” reported by Trjapitzin (2006).

 

References

Trjapitzin, V.A. 2006. A review of the encyrtid genus Echthroplexiella Mercet, 1921 (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) of the New World with description of a new species from Mexico. Entomologicheskoe Obrozrenie 85: 662-675.