Aphelinoidea (Aphelinoidea) stepposa Fursov, 2007

Triapitsyn, Ś. Serguei V., 2018, Review of the Palearctic Aphelinoidea (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), with focus on the species described by Ś. Nowicki, Israel Journal of Entomology 48 (2), pp. 33-81 : 70

Aphelinoidea (Aphelinoidea) stepposa Fursov, 2007

Aphelinoidea stepposa Fursov, 2007: 968 (illustrations), 969 (in key). Type locality: 10 km N of Morskoye ,­ Crimea,­Ukraine­(now­Russia).­Holotype­ ♀ ­[SIZK],­not­examined.

Diagnosis: Member of the plutella species group of the nominate subgenus of Aphelinoidea (fore wing disc with a transverse hyaline path just beyond venation).

Female. Clava 2.5–3.1× as long as wide and 1.9–2.0× length of pedicel; apical segment of clava 2.0–2.2× length of its basal segment ( Fursov 2007).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution: Crimea.

Hosts: Unknown.

Comments: The non-type specimen from Campania, Italy, listed below under A. subexserta Nowicki keys to A. stepposa in Fursov (2007). His illustrations of the latter­taxon­(Fursov­2007:­968,­fig.­542)­seem­to­fit­ A. subexserta , particularly the rather long ovipositor relative to the length of the metatibia, as the tentative ratio of ca. 2.0 ( Table 1), calculated from the measurements taken from the drawing of an adult female A. stepposa (Fursov­2007:­968,­fig.­542–1).­Thus,­their­likelyconspecificity­needs­to­be­confirmed­after­examination­of­the­holotype­of­ A. stepposa , which was unavailable to me.