Illustrated key to genera and catalogue of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) in America north of Mexico
Author
Huber, John T.
Author
Read, Jennifer D.
Author
Triapitsyn, Serguei V.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-05-12
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STETHYNIUM
Enock, 1909
(
Figs 979
–1010)
Stethynium
Enock, 1909: 452
.
Type
species:
Stethynium triclavatum
Enock, 1909
, by monotypy.
Diagnosis
. Body length 525–715 μm. Clava 3-segmented, the sutures between segments strongly oblique (
Fig. 984
); mandible with 4 teeth (Fig. 1000); frenum longitudinally divided, with paramedial plate longer than wide; second phragma with rounded (convex) apex (
Figs 985
, 1001); fore wing with distinct rounded lobe behind venation (
Fig. 987
). Male with complex asymmetrical genitalia (
Figs 993
, 1010).
FIGURE 979
.
Stethynium triclavatum
Enock
, habitus. Canada, British Columbia, Deas Island (between Vancouver and Whiterock), 9.vii.1988, A.T. Finnamore. Scale bar=500 μm.
Discussion
. Among the four other genera in the Nearctic with frenum longitudinally divided:
Anagrus
,
Krokella
,
Platystethynium
(
Platypatasson
)
and
Schizophragma
, only
Krokella
also has a 3-segmented clava.
Stethynium
differs from it by the mandible normal, with 4 equal teeth in both sexes, fore wing more evenly rounded and with a distinct lobe behind apex of venation, and venation shorter.
Nearctic hosts
. Unknown. Extralimital hosts are
Hemiptera
:
Cicadellidae
, including an important pest in vineyards,
Empoasca vitis
(Goethe) (
Viggiani 2002
)
.
Important reference
.
Huber (1987)
.