Iconella etiellae

General description: 

Description. Promefur color: almost completely dark brown (yellow area absent or limited to posterior 0.2 x). Meso- and meta- femur color: mostly dark brown but with proximal 0.1-0.2 × yellow to orange. Metatibia and metatarsus color: Metatibia mostly yellow, at most with very small and faint brown spot on posterior 0.1 × or less; metatarsus mostly yellow, except for brown area on posterior half of first tarsomerus. Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula and anterior half of humeral complex yellow to yellowish-white, posterior half of humeral complex light brown to dark brown. Pterostigma color: mostly brown, with yellowish-white spot at anterior 0.2 ×. Fore wing veins color: most of veins transparent or at most yellowish-white, margins of same color than interior of vein. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 3.0 mm or 3.1 mm. Fore wing length: 3.3 mm or 3.4 mm. Ocular-ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.6 × or 1.7 ×. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.4 × or 2.6 ×. Antennal flagellomere 2 length/width: 2.6 × or 2.7 ×. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width: 1.4 × or 1.7 ×. Length of flagellomere 2/length of flagellomere 14: 2.2 ×. Metafemur length/width: 3.2 × or 3.3 ×. Mesoscutellar disc: mostly smooth with few, scattered punctures near margins. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: usually 14 or more, ocasionally reaching up to 16 pits. Propodeum background sculpture: anterior 0.2–0.4 × with fine puntures; posterior 0.6–0.8 × mostly smooth, at most with some small carinae (mostly radiating from strong, longitudinal median carina). Mediotergite 1 width at anterior margin/width at posterior margin: 2.4 × or 2.5 ×. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 5.0 × or 5.1 ×. Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 1.1 ×.

Male. As female.

There is a record from Virginia, United States (Yu et al. 2012). Based in the known distribution of New World species of Iconella and their hosts (Fernández-Triana et al. 2013), it is very likely that the VA specimen actually belongs to Iconella canadensis Fernández-Triana.

Description. Promefur color: almost completely dark brown (yellow area absent or limited to posterior 0.2 x). Meso- and meta- femur color: mostly dark brown but with proximal 0.1-0.2 × yellow to orange. Metatibia and metatarsus color: Metatibia mostly yellow, at most with very small and faint brown spot on posterior 0.1 × or less; metatarsus mostly yellow, except for brown area on posterior half of first tarsomerus. Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula and anterior half of humeral complex yellow to yellowish-white, posterior half of humeral complex light brown to dark brown. Pterostigma color: mostly brown, with yellowish-white spot at anterior 0.2 ×. Fore wing veins color: most of veins transparent or at most yellowish-white, margins of same color than interior of vein. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 3.0 mm or 3.1 mm. Fore wing length: 3.3 mm or 3.4 mm. Ocular-ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.6 × or 1.7 ×. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.4 × or 2.6 ×. Antennal flagellomere 2 length/width: 2.6 × or 2.7 ×. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width: 1.4 × or 1.7 ×. Length of flagellomere 2/length of flagellomere 14: 2.2 ×. Metafemur length/width: 3.2 × or 3.3 ×. Mesoscutellar disc: mostly smooth with few, scattered punctures near margins. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: usually 14 or more, ocasionally reaching up to 16 pits. Propodeum background sculpture: anterior 0.2–0.4 × with fine puntures; posterior 0.6–0.8 × mostly smooth, at most with some small carinae (mostly radiating from strong, longitudinal median carina). Mediotergite 1 width at anterior margin/width at posterior margin: 2.4 × or 2.5 ×. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 5.0 × or 5.1 ×. Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 1.1 ×.

Male. As female.

There is a record from Virginia, United States (Yu et al. 2012). Based in the known distribution of New World species of Iconella and their hosts (Fernández-Triana et al. 2013), it is very likely that the VA specimen actually belongs to Iconella canadensis Fernández-Triana.

Biology: 

Hosts: Etiella zinckenella, Olycella junctolineella, Psorosina hammondi, and Ufa rubedinella (Pyralidae).

Hosts: Etiella zinckenella, Olycella junctolineella, Psorosina hammondi, and Ufa rubedinella (Pyralidae).

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith