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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GONATOCERUS
Nees, 1834
(
Figs 452–466
)
Gonatocerus
Nees, 1834: 192
.
Type
species:
Gonatocerus longicornis
Nees, 1834
, by monotypy.
Diagnosis
. Body length 640–1665 μm. Funicle with fu
2
and fu
3
usually the longest segment and often fu
2
with apex slightly oblique (
Fig. 457
); fore wing relatively narrow and as setose behind venation as beyond venation, with the microtrichia fairly dense (
Figs 452
,
464
); stigmal vein with apex oblique (
Fig. 464
); dorsellum rhomboidal (
Fig. 458
), often with margins slightly lighter in colour laterally than medially; propodeum without submedian carinae (
Fig. 458
), but sometimes with faint converging sulci.
FIGURE 452
.
Gonatocerus rivalis
Girault
, habitus. Canada, Ontario, Buckham’s Bay West, 45°29'36"N 76°6'38"W, v–x.2010, J. Read. Scale bar=500 μm.
Discussion
. Among the four genera in the
Gonatocerus
group (
Cosmocomoidea
,
Gastrogonatocerus
,
Gonatocerus
, and
Lymaenon
) that share the following combination of features: tarsi 5-segmented, funicle 8-segmented, face with subantennal sulci, and parastigma with hypochaeta about midway between proximal and distal macrochaetae (
Huber 2015a
),
Gonatocerus
is superficially most similar to
Lymaenon
, but the pronotal lobes abut medially and the dorsellum is triangular as in
Cosmocomoidea
and
Gastrogonatocerus
but in contrast to
Lymaenon
.
Nearctic hosts
.
Hemiptera
:
Cicadellidae
.
Important references
. Girault (1929 [428]), Huber (1988, 2015a, 2017), Triapitsyn
et al.
(2010),
Triapitsyn (2013a
, b).