A semantically enriched taxonomic revision of Gryonoides Dodd, 1920 (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), with a review of the hosts of Teleasinae
Author
Miko, Istvan
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9719-0215
UNH Collection of Insects and other Arthropods, Department of Biology and Life Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
istvan.miko@gmail.com
Author
Masner, Lubomir
Canadian National Collection of Insects and Arachnids, Ottawa, Canada
Author
Ulmer, Jonah M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9185-6378
Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Author
Raymond, Monique
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5260-0978
UNH Collection of Insects and other Arthropods, Department of Biology and Life Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Author
Hobbie, Julia
UNH Collection of Insects and other Arthropods, Department of Biology and Life Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Author
Tarasov, Sergei
Natural History Museum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Author
Margaria, Cecilia Beatriz
Zoologia Agricola, Centro de Investigacion en Sanidad Vegetal, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
Author
Seltmann, Katja C.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-6048
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Author
Talamas, Elijah J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1048-6345
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, FL, USA
text
Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2021
2021-12-23
87
523
573
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.72931
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.72931
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Gryonoides mirabilicornis Masner &
Miko
sp. nov.
Figs 22
, 23
Diagnosis.
Gryonoides mirabilicornis
differs from all other teleasine species in having tyloids (keel like release and spread structures,
Isidoro et al. 1996
) on A5 and A6.
Description.
Body length: 2620-2700
µm
. Antenna color: scape and pedicel yellow, flagellum dark brown. Color of head: dark brown. Color of mesosoma: legs, tegula, lateral mesoscutellar spines, metascutellar spine yellowish, axillae, metanotum, lateral region of pronotal rim reddish, rest of mesosoma black. Color of metasoma: dark brown. Length of setae on male flagellomeres: more than 2 times as long as flagellomere width. Torular triangle: absent. Transverse setal fields on upper face: absent. Upper face sculpture: punctate dorsally. Upper face concavity dorsal view: convex. Central keel: absent. Head shape anterior view: head rounded in anterior view (longest head width in horizontal midline of head). Occipital carina structure dorsomedially: not crenulate. Facial striae dorsal end: not reaching midlevel of eye. Vertex sculpture: smooth. Notaulus: present. Notaulus anterior end: anterior to the transscutal line. Dorsal metapleural area: glabrous. Anteromedial pits of propodeum: absent. Area between plica and lateral propodeal carina sculpture: carinate (1 or 2 carinae present). Number of longitudinal carinae between plica and longitudinal (dorsal) section of lateral propodeal carina: 1. Medial region of lateral propodeal area pilosity: glabrous. Posterior propodeal projection length: more than two times as long as wide. Rugulose sculpture on T3: absent. T3 posterior 4/5th: smooth.
Comments.
We are not aware of a similar RSS pattern in
Teleasinae
,
Telenominae
and more derived
Scelioninae
. The geometry of the female antenna and the distribution pattern of uniporous olfactory sensilla have been reported to correspond to the male RSS (
Isidoro et al. 1996
) in some parasitic
Hymenoptera
.
Bin et al. 1989
have observed that
Trissolcus basalis
males are touching the female antenna during copulation "entwining his around hers and repeatedly". Although a the female receptor for the gland extract has not been identified, it is most reasonable to assume that the distinct change in male RSS morphology in
G. mirabilicornis
most likely corresponds to unique modifications on the female antenna of the same species. Specimens of
G. mirabilicornis
were collected together along with some female specimens of
G. flaviclavus
and
G. fuscoclavatus
. We did not find differences in the antennal morphology and sensilla pattern between the female antenna of these two species and other
Gryonoides
. Therefore, we consider the 3 male specimens with modified antennae to be a separate species.
Material.
Holotype
: male, UNHC_0020586,
PERU
,
Manu
,
Villa
,
Carmen
,
Pilicopata
,
518m
,
12°53'03
''
S
,
71°24'16
''
W
,
28.xi.2011
,
J. Heraty
, mature forest, sweeping (CNC)
.
Paratypes
:
PERU
,
2 males
(CNC)