Zaomma

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1 Club only slightly wider than funicle, F6 quadrate, scutellar tuft usually present, BL less than 1.25mm ……………………………………………………….…………..…..……. lambinus
1’ Club width about 2x width F6, F6 wider than long, scutellar tuft absent, BL greater than 1.5 mm ………………………………………..…………………………………………..…. sp. 1

 

Sp. 1: Known from only two specimens, one swept from Baccharis piluaris, and one from a Sambucus sp. Contra Costa, San Mateo (RLZC).

 

Nearctic species and distributions

lambinus (Walker, 1838): CAN (NB, NS, ON, PEI, QC); USA (CA, CN, FL, MI, NJ, NY, OH, SC, VA)

 

Remarks

A key to the then known species of the world was presented by Gordh & Trjapitzin (1979). Although Graham (1969) synonymized Chiloneurus microphagus Mayr, 1876 with Z. lambinus (under Apterencyrtus), Gordh (1979) continued to use the former name in the interest of stability.

 

References

Gordh, G. 1979. Family Encyrtidae. Pp. 890-967 in Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, Jr., D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks (eds.). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1 Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.: 1198 pp.
Gordh, G. & Trjapitzin, V.A. 1979. Notes on the genus Zaomma Ashmead, with a key to species (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 55: 34-40.
Graham, M.W.R. de V. 1969. Synonymic and descriptive notes on European Encyrtidae (Hym., Chalcidoidea). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 39: 211-319.
Walker, F. 1838. Monographia Chalciditum. Entomological Magazine 5: 418-431.