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Apanteles etiellae Viereck 



Apanteles (Pseudapanteles) etiellae Viereck, 1911 : 178. 



Apanteles iselyi Cushman, 1919 : 120 [synonymy, Muesebeck, 1920]. 



Apanteles etiellae Viereck ; Muesebeck, 1920 : 531. 



This is a North American species and in the British Museum collections are a male 

 and a female determined by Muesebeck. These are from Iowa, Shenandoah and 

 were bred from Canarsia hammondi Riley (Phycitidae). 



The only difference I can find of significance between etiellae $ and merula $ is 

 that the flagellum of etiellae lacks upstanding bristly pubescence, the venation 

 proximal to the areolet is virtually colourless and the ovipositor sheath is very 

 slightly shorter. Further investigation may show the two species to be the same. 



Apanteles meruloides sp. n. 



2. This species is extremely like merula but certainly distinct on a much longer metacarp. 

 The antenna is not only longer but also thinner ; however the pubescence of the flagellum is 

 similar to that of merula. 



The punctation of the mesoscutum is somewhat sharper and more distinct than in merula. 



Tergite 1 more sharply narrowed behind, its horizontal part longer, duller and with sharp, 

 discrete punctures ; in merula, the surface here is less distinctly punctate. 



Europe : Turkey, Bornova, 2 $$, one the TYPE, 1 $, ex Polychrosis botrana; 

 Izmir, ix.1937, 3 $$, 4 $<$, labelled " in stored dry fig ". 

 Type in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



Host : Polychrosis botrana Schiffermuller (Olethreutidae). 



Apanteles lacteoides sp. n. 



Apanteles lacteus Nees ; of authors. 



2. Wings milky white ; costa and stigma yellow ; metacarp contrasting dark brown ; hind 

 tibia reddish-yellow on rather more than basal half ; becoming blackened towards apex. 

 Tegula whitish. 



Head (Text-fig. 167). Antenna a little shorter than the body with the three preapical seg- 

 ments almost twice as long as wide, shiny and closely articulated ; apical segment thin, sharply 

 pointed (Text-fig. 172) ; pubescence of flagellum so fine as to be hardly noticeable. Distance 

 between the posterior ocelli distinctly greater than the distance between one of them and the 

 eye-margin, 5 14. 



Mesoscutum strongly shining, its punctation very superficial ; a faint trace of striate-puncta- 

 tion at posterior end of notaulic courses. Disc of scutellum punctate along sides. Cubitellan 

 cell of the hind wing about as wide as high. 



Horizontal part of tergite 1 polished and at most with faint traces of punctation. Seen from 

 above, the ovipositor is distinctly constricted before apex. 



Length: ca. 4 mm. without ovipositor. 



o*. Like the female. 



Europe : Sweden, Skane, Ohus, 16.vii.1958, 2 $$, one the TYPE, (K. J. 

 Hedqvist), Degaberga, vii, 2 $$, (D. M. S. & J. F. Perkins). 

 Type in Coll. Hedqvist. 



