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Body length, including ovipositor, 0.7–0.8mm. Frontovertex dark orange; brown in ocellar area, brown between occipital margin and posterior ocelli; dark brown from occiput to base of mandible; mouth margin narrowly dark brown below torulus; rest of head, except occiput, brown; antenna (Fig. 58) with radicle dark brown; scape with both faces dark brown and base of scape white; pedicel in proximal half dark brown, distal half white, dark brown area extending slightly towards apex externally and internally; F1–F4 pale brown, F5–F6 white, clava dark brown, becoming slightly paler towards apex, apex paler brown; occiput with a large dark brown area above foramen; neck of pronotum black, posterior margin translucent brown; dorsum of thorax dark brown; sides and posterior margin of mesoscutum and axillae inconspicuously bordered brown; setae translucent pale brown, silvery in most lights; tegula pale brown with apex pale darker; metanotum dark brown; mesopleuron pale brown; prosternum and mesosternum brown; legs (Fig. 59) mainly pale yellow but tibiae at knees narrowly dark brown and each with a pair of dark brown rings at about 0.2× and 0.5× (fore tibia at about 0.5×); fore wing (Fig. 62) hyaline with a small infuscate area beneath stigmal vein, and with linea calva interrupted; venation yellow-brown; hind wing hyaline; propodeum dark brown; gaster dorsally and venter dark brown, sides very pale brown to white; ovipositor sheath pale brown. Head with polygonally reticulate sculpture and mesh size slightly less than that of one eye facet; ocelli forming an angle of about 45°; eye not quite reaching occipital margin, separated by much less than diameter of a facet; eye margins subparallel; scrobes shallow and U-shaped; antenna with scape about 4.5× as long as broad; funicle with F1–F4 smallest, subequal and transverse, F5 a little larger but transverse, F6 largest and quadrate; linear sensilla only on F6; clava 3-segmented, its apex more or less rounded but with a short slightly oblique truncation; mandible relatively broad, with three subequal, apical teeth; palpal formula 2-2 (Fig. 60), gaster with ovipositor slightly exserted, notaular lines reaching about 0.7× across mesoscutum; fore wing venation and setation as in Fig. 62; ovipositor (Fig. 61) clearly exserted, about 4.3× as long as ovipositor sheath. Relative measurements: HW 12, FV 3, FVL 4, POL 1.5, AOL 2, OOL 1, OCL 0.5, POD 1, AOD 1, EL 9, EW 5, MS 3, SL 6, SW 2, FWL 32, FWW 15, HWL 22, HWW 4, OL 11, GL 2.5, MT 10. Male. Almost identical to female in general structure, habitus and coloration except for solid clava, genitalia.
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Ying Wang, Cheng-De Li, Yan-Zhou Zhang
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Wang Y, Li C, Zhang Y (2013) A taxonomic study of Chinese species of the alberti group of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) ZooKeys 285: 53–88
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Ying Wang
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Cheng-De Li
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Yan-Zhou Zhang
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China (Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai); Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Wales, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom.
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cc-by-3.0
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Ying Wang, Cheng-De Li, Yan-Zhou Zhang
bibliographic citation
Wang Y, Li C, Zhang Y (2013) A taxonomic study of Chinese species of the alberti group of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) ZooKeys 285: 53–88
author
Ying Wang
author
Cheng-De Li
author
Yan-Zhou Zhang
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