Review of Gonatocerus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Neotropical region, with description of eleven new species
Author
Triapitsyn, Serguei V.
Author
Huber, John T.
Author
Logarzo, Guillermo A.
Author
Berezovskiy, Vladimir V.
Author
Aquino, Daniel A.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-05-14
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journal article
32054
10.5281/zenodo.894928
77799ae7-9459-43e9-af68-c88aa98852a5
1175-5326
894928
Gonatocerus
(
Lymaenon
)
cubensis
Dozier, 1932
(
Figs 69–72
)
Gonatocerus cubensis
Dozier 1932
: 83
.
Type
locality: near
La Habana
(
Havana
), reared at Port-au-Prince,
Haiti
(
Dozier 1932
).
Gonatocerus
(
Gonatocerus
)
cubensis
Dozier
:
De Santis 1979
: 365
(catalog).
Gonatocerus cubensis
Dozier
:
Yoshimoto 1990
: 40
(list).
FIGURES 69–72.
Gonatocerus
(
Lymaenon
)
cubensis
♀ (holotype): 69, antenna; 70, body; 71, dorsellum and propodeum; 72, wings.
Type
material examined.
Holotype
female [
USNM
] on slide labeled: 1. “
Gonatocerus
[ip] [
Ooctonus
– co]
cubensis
Dozier Reared
from citrus foliage received from Dr. Clausen
Habana
,
Cuba
,
July 27–1931
H. L. Dozier”; 2. [red] “
Gonatocerus
[
Ooctonus
– co]
cubensis
Dozier
♀
Holotype
Type
No
. 65497
U.S.
N.M.”. The
holotype
is complete, uncleared, mounted dorsoventrally.
Redescription.
FEMALE. Head dark brown, mesosoma mostly light brown except mesoscutum brown anteriorly, gaster light brown basally, distal gastral terga brownish; antenna brown (scape and pedicel slightly lighter than flagellum); legs mostly light brown.
Antenna (
Fig. 69
) with radicle about 0.3x total length of scape; pedicel longer than F1; F1–F4 short, subequal (F2 a little shorter and F4 a little longer), F5 and F6 shorter and narrower than F7 or F8; mps only on F7 (2) and F8 (2); clava 3.8x as long as wide, a little shorter than combined length of F5–F8, number of mps uncertain (mps difficult to see).
Mesosoma as in
Figs 70, 71
. Forewing (
Fig. 72
) 3.2–3.3x as long as wide [however, both wings mounted at an angle, so they appear narrower]; longest marginal seta about 0.33x maximum wing width. Forewing disc hyaline, bare behind submarginal vein, setose behind and beyond marginal vein. Hind wing (
Fig. 72
)
22x
as long as wide; disc hyaline, bare except for rows of setae along margins and a few setae at apex; longest marginal seta 2.9x maximum wing width.
Metasoma (
Fig. 70
). Ovipositor 0.75x length of gaster, not exserted beyond its apex; ovipositor length: mesotibia length ratio 1.2:1.
Measurements (µm). Body: 806; head: 154; mesosoma 303; petiole 21; gaster 333; ovipositor 248. Antenna: radicle 51; rest of scape 97; pedicel 45; F1 26; F2 23; F3 27; F4 30; F5 39; F6 38; F7 45; F8 43; clava 152. Forewing 670:206; longest marginal seta 76. Hind wing 530:24; longest marginal seta 70.
MALE. Unknown.
Diagnosis.
Gonatocerus
(
Lymaenon
)
cubensis
, known only from the female
holotype
, is characterized by its slender antenna (
Fig. 69
) with mps only on F7 and F8, and also by its generally light brown mesosoma (
Fig. 70
). It is very similar to
G.
(
Lymaenon
)
flaviventris
Dozier
from
Haiti
, whose mesosoma is mostly dark brown (
Figs 73
,
75
).
Distribution.
NEOTROPICAL:
Cuba
.
Hosts.
Unknown.