Keys to California Encyrtidae
Robert L. Zuparko
rz “at” berkeley.edu
last updated May 2017
http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Research.html
This site presents a series of keys to morphospecies from most of the genera of Encyrtidae found in California. This is a work in progress, and is presented here to help further the discourse of Encyrtidae taxonomy in an informal manner. Much of this work was done without accessing holotypes, and thus relies heavily upon written descriptions of the named species. For this reason alone, these keys should be considered provisional.
Unless otherwise noted, all keys are for females only. For each included genus, the key will include all described species recorded from California, as well as those taxa that I have been unable to identify (= uncertain). The latter likely represent a combination of undescribed species plus described species with which I am unfamiliar. For these unrecognized taxa, I include the California county they were collected in, and a codon representing the institution where the specimens are held:
CAS California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
CSCA California State Collection of Arthropods, Sacramento, CA
EMEC Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
RLZC Robert L. Zuparko personal collection (ultimately to be deposited in
EMEC)
SBMN Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA
UCDC Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA
UCFC Stuart M. Fullerton Collection of Arthropods, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
UCRC Entomology Research Museum, University of California, Riverside, CA
USNM National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
For each genus, I also list all the described species reported from the Nearctic Region (both endemic and introduced species), and their recorded distributions in the region (by Country and State/Province if known – I did not include any records from other regions), as well as any miscellaneous remarks that may be of taxonomic assistance, followed by a list of references cited. The delineation of which Mexican states fall in the Nearctic region follows guidelines used by the Department of Entomology of the California Academy of Sciences.
The initial phase of this project treats only the smaller genera. To date these include (with the number of described/uncertain species):
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Adelencyrtus.html”>Adelencyrtus (2/0)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Aenasius.html”>Aenasius (4/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Ageniaspis.html”>Ageniaspis (1/4)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Aphycaspis.html”>Aphycaspis (0/2)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Blastothrix.html”>Blastothrix (4/3)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Blepyrus.html”>Blepyrus (1/2)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Bothriothorax.html”>Bothriothorax (3/3)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Cerapterocerus.html”>Cerapterocerus (0/2)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Ceraptroceroideus.html”>Ceraptroceroideus (1/2)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Cerchysiella.html”>Cerchysiella (2/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Cerchysius.html”>Cerchysius (1/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Charitopus.html”>Charitopus (0/2)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Charitopus.html”>Charitopus (0/2)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Cheiloneurus.html”>Cheiloneurus (8/10)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Cirrhencyrtus.html”>Cirrhencyrtus (1/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Coelopencyrtus.html”>Coelopencyrtus (1/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Copidosomopsis.html”>Copidosomopsis (2/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Dicarnosis.html”>Dicarnosis (1/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Discodes.html”>Discodes (1/6)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Echthroplexiella.html”>Echthroplexiella (0/2)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Ericydnus.html”>Encyrtus (4/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Ericydnus.html”>Ericydnus (2/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Formicencyrtus.html”>Formicencyrtus (2/0)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Ginsiana.html”>Ginsiana (1/3)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae.Gyranusoidea.html”>Gyranusoidea (3/5)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae.Habrolepis.html”>Habrolepis (1/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Holcencyrtus.html”>Holcencyrtus (1/2)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Homalotylus.html”>Homalotyus (5/4)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Isodromus.html”>Isodromus (3/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Lamennaisia.html”>Lamennaisia (1/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Mayridia.html”>Mayridia (0/2)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Meromyzobia.html”>Meromyzobia (1/4)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Microterys.html”>Microterys (6/6)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Oobius.html”>Oobius (4/6)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Ooencyrtus.html”>Ooencyrtus (2/17)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Parablastothrix.html”>Parablastothrix (1/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Prionomastix.html”>Prionomastix (1/2)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Prionomitus.html”>Prionomitus (2/0)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Prochiloneurus.html”>Prochiloneurus (2/3)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Pseudencyrtus.html”>Pseudencyrtus (0/11)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Pseudleptomastix.html”>Pseudleptomastix (1/6)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Psyllaephagus.html”>Psyllaephagus (4/14)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Rhopus.html”>Rhopus (0/3)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Saera.html”>Saera (1/2)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Syrphophagus.html”>Syrphophagus (2/11)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Tetracnemoidea.html”>Tetracnemoidea (3/3)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Tetracnemus.html”>Tetracnemus (1/4)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Trichomasthus.html”>Trichomasthus (1/4)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Tyndarichus.html”>Tyndarichus (1/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Tyndarichus.html”>Zaomma (1/1)</a>
<a href= “http:essig.berkeley.edu/research/Encyrtidae/Tyndarichus.html”>Zarhopalus (3/0)</a>
Eventually I hope to also include keys for Anagyrus, Metaphycus and Trjapitzinellus, but I have no plans to treat Acerophagus or Copidosoma. Genera represented in California by only a single species (whether described or not) are not included.