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.
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Zootaxa
2010
2010-05-14
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10.5281/zenodo.894928
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Gonatocerus
(
Cosmocomoidea
)
dolichocerus
Ashmead, 1887
(
Figs 294–296
)
Gonatocerus dolichocerus
Ashmead 1887
: 192
. Holotype female [USNM] (not examined). Type locality: Jacksonville, Duval Co., Florida, USA.
Gonatocerus dolichocerus
Ashmead
:
Girault 1915b
: 8
;
Huber 1988
: 72
–75 (subsequent references, redescription, diagnosis, distribution, host associations);
Yoshimoto 1990
: 40
(list,
ater
species group);
De Santis & Fidalgo 1994
: 124
(catalog);
Huber & Beardsley 2000
: 57
(records from the Hawaiian Islands); Triapitsyn 2006a: 26 (comparison with
G. ashmeadi
Girault
).
Gonatocerus marilandicus
Girault 1917a
: 115
–116. Holotype female [USNM] (not examined). Type locality: Glenn Dale, Prince Georges Co., Maryland, USA. Synonymized under
G. dolichocerus
by
Huber 1988
: 72
.
Gonatocerus marylandicus
Peck: Peck 1951
: 412
(unjustified emendation of
G. marilandicus
Girault
).
Lymaenon dolichocerus
(Ashmead)
:
Burks 1958
: 63
(catalog [not listed but a new combination proposed referring to the previous listing in
Peck (1951)
]);
Peck 1963
: 22
(catalog).
Lymaenon marylandicus
[sic] (Girault):
Burks 1958
: 63
(catalog [not listed but a new combination proposed referring to the previous listing in
Peck (1951)
]);
Peck 1963
: 23
(catalog).
FIGURES 294–296.
Gonatocerus
(
Cosmocomoidea
)
dolichocerus
♀ (294, 295 – Témaé Airport, Moorea Island, Society Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia; 296 – vicinity of Wakulla Beach, Wakulla Co., Florida, USA): 294, antenna; 295, dorsellum, propodeum, and petiole; 296, forewing.
Material
examined.
MEXICO
.
VERACRUZ
,
Fortín
de las
Flores
,
30.x.1982
,
J.T. Huber
, A. González-
Hernández
[
1 ♂
,
UCRC
]
.
Extralimital
records.
FRENCH POLYNESIA
.
Tuamotu Archipelago
,
Society Islands
,
Moorea Island
,
Témaé Airport
,
15.xii.2004
,
J. Grandgirard
[
1 ♀
,
UCRC
]
.
MEXICO
.
NUEVO LEÓN
:
Municipio Allende
,
Raíces
,
Río Ramos
,
9.vii.1983
,
A. González-Hernández
[
1 ♀
,
UCRC
]
.
Municipio El Carmen
:
El Carmen
,
10.vii.1983
,
A. González-Hernández
[
4 ♀
,
9 ♂
,
UCRC
]
.
Hacienda Bernabé Villarreal
,
10.vii.1983
,
M.A. Rodríguez-Pérez
[
1 ♀
,
2 ♂
,
UCRC
]
.
USA
.
FLORIDA
,
Wakulla Co.
, vicinity of
Wakulla Beach
,
13.x.1975
,
E.D. McCoy
,
J.R. Rey
(
on
Distichlis spicata
) [
1 ♀
,
UCRC
]
.
LOUISIANA
,
East Baton Rouge Parish
,
Baton Rouge
,
2–4.iv.2002
,
S.V. Triapitsyn
[
2 ♀
,
UCRC
]
.
MISSOURI
,
St. Clair Co.
,
Chapel View Prairie
,
29.vi.1999
,
M. Gates
[
1 ♀
,
UCRC
]
.
PENNSYLVANIA
,
Carbon Co.
,
Lake Harmony
,
23–25.vi.2003
,
J. Munro
[
2 ♀
,
UCRC
]
.
Redescription
. See
Huber (1988)
.
Diagnosis.
Gonatocerus
(
Cosmocomoidea
)
dolichocerus
is a member of the
bucculentus
subgroup of the
ater
species group. Female antenna as in
Fig. 294
. Pronotum concolorous with remainder of mesosoma; propodeum (
Fig. 295
) with submedian carinae converging anterodorsally, not extending to anterior margin of propodeum; forewing (
Fig. 296
) usually with a complete cubital row of setae and without darker bands or spots. Superficially, it is easily confused with
G.
(
Cosmocomoidea
)
ashmeadi
Girault
, but this latter species lacks an occipital sulcus from the back of the head so the gena, in lateral view, do not appear constricted next to the eye. In
G. dolichocerus
there is an occipital sulcus that is wider than long, flattened or indented above the foramen.
Distribution.
NEOTROPICAL*:
Mexico
(
Veracruz
). NEARCTIC:
Canada
(
Huber 1988
),
Mexico
(
Nuevo León
), and
USA
. OCEANIA:
French Polynesia
(Society Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago: Tahiti Island (
Grandgirard
et al.
2007
) and Moorea Island), and Hawaiian Islands (
USA
:
Hawaii
) (
Huber & Beardsley 2000
).
Huber (1988)
mentioned occurrence of this species in
Mexico
without providing further details on its distribution there.
Hosts.
Gyponana
sp. (
Cicadellidae
), as well as
Stictocephala bisonia
Kopp & Yonke
[as
Ceresa bisonia
Kopp & Yonke
] and
Tortistilus pacificus
(Van Duzee)
[as
Stictocephala pacifica
Van Duzee
] (
Membracidae
) (
Huber 1988
).