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1 Body (except legs) all dark ……………………………………………………………..…… sp.1
1’ Mesosoma with longitudinal yellow stripe, prosternum, and head mostly, yellow ……….. sp. 2
Sp. 1: Alpine, Inyo, Lassen, Modoc, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, Tuolumne (CSCA, RLZC, UCD, UCR). Like C. mirabilis, but with four marginal hyaline areas distad of venation instead of five.
Sp. 2: Lassen, Modoc, Mono (CSCA, RLZC, UCFC). Like C. phragmitis, but scutellum yellow
medially (instead of all dark). Macropterous and brachypterous forms known.
Described Nearctic species and distribution
mirabilis Westwood, 1833: MEX
phragmitis (Gordh & Trjapitzin, 1981): USA (FL)
References
Gordh, G. & Trjapitzin, V.A. 1981. Taxonomic studies of the Encyrtidae with the descriptions of new species and a new genus. University of California Publications in Entomology 93: 55 pp.
Westwood, 1833. Descriptions of several new British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. Philosophical Magazine 3: 342-344.