Redescription of the types of Charitopus andalusicus Mercet and Xanthoectroma aquilinum Mercet (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae).

Abstract

Redescriptions of the holotypes of encyrtids Charitopus andalusicus Mercet (from Andalusia) and Xanthoectroma aquilinum Mercet (from the Old Castile) are given in the article. Original key of Old World species of the genus Charitopus Förster is included. The genus Charitopus is divided into two subgenera: subgenus Charitopus s. str. (type species - Ch. fulviventris Förster) and subgenus Charitopsis nov. (type species - Charitopus laticornis Trjapitzin). Charitopsis differs from the nominative subgenus in the absence of parapsidal furrows and in widened scape of female antennae.

Nomenclatural Acts

Charitopsis Trjapitzin, 1969 (Charitopus), sgen. n.