Taxonomic review of Polynema (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in Australia and New Zealand, with descriptions of eight new species
Author
Triapitsyn, Serguei V.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-01-21
4915
2
151
200
journal article
8662
10.11646/zootaxa.4915.2.1
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Subgenus
Polynema
(
Dorypolynema
Hayat & Anis, 1999
)
Remarks
. Within
Polynema
sensu lato
, the anteriorly swollen petiole is a feature that is not restricted only to species of
P.
(
Dorypolynema
). It also occurs, for example, in a native species of
P.
(
Polynema
) from
Hawaii
Island, Hawaiian Islands (specimens in UCRC). Swollen and wide, sometimes somewhat flattened petioles are usually associated with long ovipositors, as in
P.
(
Doriclytus
)
vitripenne
(Foerster) (
Triapitsyn & Fidalgo 2006
)
,
P.
(
Dorypolynema
) spp. (
Triapitsyn & Aquino 2010
), and
Kalopolynema
spp. (
Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy 2002b
), but not always—in one Hawaiian species of
P.
(
Polynema
) with a swollen petiole (specimens in UCRC) the ovipositor is short.
A key to both sexes of the species of
P.
(
Dorypolynema
) in the world is provided below to facilitate their recognition, which is updated from
Triapitsyn & Aquino (2010)
. Males of an undescribed
P.
(
Dorypolynema
) species from
Taipei
City,
Taiwan
, of which only one poorly mounted female specimen on a slide is available (
Triapitsyn 2018a
, p. 160), are unknown. Excluded from the key is another undescribed species of
P.
(
Dorypolynema
) from
Madagascar
, mentioned by
Triapitsyn & Aquino (2010
, p. 63), which will be dealt with separately. Two species are treated following the key to species,
P.
(
Dorypolynema
)
mendeli
, the only species of
P
. (
Dorypolynema
) known from
Australia
, and
P
. (
Dorypolynema
)
mboroense
(Risbec)
comb. n.
from
Acmopolynema
Ogloblin
, from Africa.