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Classification
Superfamily : Chalcidoidea
Family : Eulophidae
Subfamily :
Eulophinae
Tribe :
Eulophini
Notauli absent or incomplete.
Scutellum without submedian lines.
Hind tibia wholly yellowish, or sometimes brownish distally (in this case the two colours are not sharply delimited)
Hind tarsi yellowish proximally, distal segment dark.
Male antenna with funicular branches, each branch placed near the base of the funicular segment.
Diagnosis
Distribution
Prior to this study P. katonis had been recorded only from Japan and Russia (Noyes, 2002; 2003). In this study they were only recorded from Indonesia.
Hosts
P. katonis is a primary parasitoid of Agromyzidae: Agromyza albipennis, A. oryzae, Chromatomyia horticola and C. syngenesiae (Noyes, 2002; 2003).
Biology
P. katonis is an idiobiont ectoparasitoid of Agromyzidae leafminers.
Comments
P. katonis is very close to the widespread Palaearctic P. soemius (Walker), and differences between these two species were given by Kamijo (1978). This parasitoid was uncommon in the study region, and does not appear to have the potential for high levels of control.