Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Parasitica wasp - Eulophidae - Aprostocetus percaudatus
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 16-09-2010 22:47
#1
Hi
A nice Parasitica wasp to appreciate. Found on Foeniculum vulgare flowers. This is an Aprostocetus sp.
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 01-10-2010 11:09
Posted by ChrisR on 16-09-2010 23:06
#2
Lovely photo! :D Just need it 1920x1080 pixels for my Desktop ;)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 16-09-2010 23:29
#3
ok. :D
I'll give the original file to you. :D Come to msn.
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 16-09-2010 23:30
Posted by pierred on 19-09-2010 18:37
#4
Jorge,
Yet another wonderfull picture!! Congrats!!
Posted by cthirion on 19-09-2010 21:01
#5
Is Aprostocetus the host of Hyménoptères on the photograph?
Doesn't the insect of the photograph appear Eulophidae to me? ;)
Posted by cthirion on 21-09-2010 00:16
#7
No To see here Aprostocetus
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/research/projects/chalcidoids/browseMedia.dsml
Probably photo=hyperparasite!
:DIf this photograph is Chalcidoidea Aprostocetus, then, I am a fly!
Camille
Edited by cthirion on 21-09-2010 00:21
Posted by cthirion on 21-09-2010 23:35
#9
No resemblance to that of this site of international reputation, sorry!
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/research/projects/chalcidoids/browseMedia.dsml
I never saw a Chalcidoidea Eulophidae with a drill thus!
Empeejay, one photo of the A. percaudatus, please?
Posted by empeejay on 23-09-2010 21:25
#10
I take it that you didn't see the original description and figure of
A. percaudatus in the pdf I linked to above?
I haven't encountered it myself but there is a photo
here that is labelled as being this species.
cthirion wrote:
No resemblance to that of this site of international reputation, sorry!
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/research/projects/chalcidoids/browseMedia.dsml
I never saw a Chalcidoidea Eulophidae with a drill thus!
Empeejay, one photo of the A. percaudatus, please?
Posted by cthirion on 23-09-2010 23:21
#11
Hello, I transmitted to Vago French of the Rasplus group for opinion. Let us wait!
Posted by cthirion on 01-10-2010 10:46
#12
Hello Camille
Accomplished mission: Eulophide is Aprostocetus (Ootetrastichus sub-genus) percaudatus (Silvestri, 1920).It appears in the keys of Graham (1987); being of habitus rather aberrant among Ootetrastichus, I had initially sought in the Aprostocetus sub-genus, without success. The specimen female of my collection belongs to the same species, which is widespread as far as India. I am less certain for the male of my collection, captured the same day and in the same place as the female, and of very similar aspect; indeed, it differs from the description of Graham. However, Graham laid out for its description of 17 females and only one male. And in its work, for 17 species of the sub-genus, the male is unknown for 5 among.Did it have the good male?
The insect is very well illustrated in the original work of Silvestri. Attached its drawing. File pdf of this article is on the site of British Museum. One can also identify it using the key of Kostyukov in Medvedev (1978). Synonym: Aprostocetus indicus (Shafee & Rizvi, 1985); synonymy suspected by Graham (1987), established by Boucek (1988), but curiously not included in version 2001 of Taxapad by Noyes. It is reproduced on the site of British Museum.
The larvae are parasitic in eggs of the Cricket Oecanthus pellucens.
To also note that Kostyukov (2004) regards Ootetrastichus as a kind different of Aprostocetus, which is not included in the base of data of British Museum.
From J.L.VAGO
:S
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 01-10-2010 11:08
#13
Thank you very much, Camille, Vago and Empeejay. :)
One of a few parasitica wasps identified till species level!