Adelencyrtus

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1 Wings hyaline; mid tibia yellowish with dark marking basally ……………….…….…. aulacaspidis
1’ Wings distad of middle with contrasting colorless and dark hairs; mid tibia uniformly pale brown …………. odonaspidis

 

Described Nearctic species and distribution
aulacaspidis (Brèthes, 1914): USA (CA, IL, NE)
moderatus (Howard, 1897): USA (FL)
odonaspidis (Fullaway, 1913): Probably adventitiously introduced into USA (CA, FL, LA, TX)

 

Remarks
Noyes (2016) reported Adelencyrtus bifasciatus Ishii had been detected in United States, but this event occurred in Hawaii (Anonymous, 1975). Compere & Annecke (1961) presented a key to the world species, on which I based my key.

 

References
Anonymous 1975. Detection. Cooperative Economic Insect Report 23(49-52): 781
Brèthes, J. 1914. Description d’un nouveau Prionomitus de Chile. Anales de Zoologia Aplicada 1: 29-30.
Compere, H. & D.P. Annecke. 1961. Descriptions of parasitic Hymenoptera and comments (Hymenopt.: Aphelinidae, Encyrtidae, Eulophidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 24: 17-71.
Fullaway, D.T. 1913. Report of the entomologist. Report of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station. 1912: 26-31.
Howard, L.O. 1897. On the Chalcididae of the Island of Grenada. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 26: 129-178.
Noyes, J.S. 2016. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids.