World reclassification of the Gonatocerus group of genera (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)
FIGURES 43 – 48. Cosmocomoidea spp., head: 43 – 45, C. sp.: 43, anterior; 44, dorsal; 45, posterior; 46, C. dolichocerus, posterior; 47, C. sp., lateral; 48, C. dolichocerus, ventral. Scale bars = 50 Μm.
FIGURES 49 – 54. Cosmocomoidea spp., mesosoma: 49, C. sp., dorsal, 50, C. morrilli, lateral; 51 – 53, C. sp.: 51, ventral; 52, lateral; 53, anterior; 54, C. latipennis, posterior. Scale bars = 100 Μm.
FIGURE 19. Cosmocomoidea latipennis, fore wing: a, dorsal; b, ventral. Scale bar = 200 Μm.
FIGURES 20, 21. Cosmocomoidea spp.: 20, C. schajovskoii, fore wing base. a, dorsal; b, ventral; 21, C. latipennis, a, fore wing base; b, membrane surface and margin (inset from 19); c, same as b but margin seen edge on (inset from 19). Scale bars: 20 a and b, 21 a = 100 Μm; 21 b and c = 10 Μm.
FIGURES 17, 18. Cosmocomoidea sp., mesosoma and base of metasoma: 17, dorsal; 18, lateral. Scale bars = 500 Μm.
FIGURES 10 – 13. Cosmocomoidea spp.: 10, Cosmocomoidea sp., head, anterior; 11, head, posterior; 12, C. morrilli, female antenna and (inset) base of left scape (outer view); 13, same as 12, right scape (inner view). Scale bars: 10 and 11 = 100 Μm, 12 and 13 = 500 Μm.
FIGURE 14. Cosmocomoidea morrilli, head, different sections in transverse plane, slide mounts: a, anterior; b, anteromedian; c, median; d, posteromedian; e, posterior; f, composite. Maximum head diameter = 540 Μm.
FIGURES 6 – 9. Dorsal views: 6, Gonatocerus sp., entire body; 7, Lymaenon sp., entire body; 8, Lymaenon sp., pronotum, the lateral lobes widely separated medially; 9, Cosmocomoidea sp., pronotum, the lateral lobes abutting medially. Maximum diameter across mesoscutum (just anterior to fore wing base): 8 = 300 Μm, 9 = 330 Μm.
FIGURE 5. Cosmocomoidea dolichocerus, head + mesosoma, dorsal (three specimens): a, teneral, the cuticle pale (not yet melanized) on vertex and parts of mesosoma; b, mostly hardened and darkened cuticle; c, fully hardened and darkened cuticle. Scale bar = 500 Μm.
FIGURES 1 – 3. 1, spot plates with clove oil containing wings (left) and 10 % KOH for remaining body parts (right); 2, five slides with cardboard spacers stacked in Petri dish for drying in oven; 3, Cosmocomoidea morrilli, habitus; USA, Florida, Alachua Co., Gainesville, American Entomological Institute, vi – vii. 1987, CNC Hymenoptera Team. Scale bar = 1000 Μm.
FIGURE 15. Cosmocomoidea latipennis, female antenna: a, left (outer view); b, right (inner view); c, fl 7 – clava (outer view); d, fl 7 – clava (inner view); e, scape – fl 2 (outer view); f, scape – fl 2 (inner view); g, radicle (outer view); h, radicle (inner view). Scale bars: a and b = 200 Μm, c – f, h = 50 Μm, g = 20 Μm.
FIGURE 38. Cosmocomoidea sp.: a, habitus, with sterna of gaster stretched, ovipositor sheaths vertical and ovipositor unsheathed in preparation for oviposition; b, gaster with ovipositor in resting position; c, gaster with ovipositor almost in line with sheaths, ready for oviposition; d, gaster (duplication of a); e, cleared gaster from c, on slide in Canada balsam. Scale bar = 1000 Μm (also applies to c – e). Gaster length for b = 490 Μm.
FIGURE 41. Cosmocomoidea bucculentus, habitus: USA, Arizona, Cochise Co., Chiricahua Mts., Southwestern Research Station, 9. ix. 1979, in swimming pool. Scale bar = 1000 Μm.
FIGURE 42. Cosmocomoidea schajovskoii, habitus: Chile, Concepción, Rio Cruces, xii. 1993. Scale bar = 500 Μm.