A key to the Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) egg parasitoids of proconiine sharpshooters (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in the Nearctic region, with description of two new species of Gonatocerus
Author
Triapitsyn, Serguei V.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1203
1
38
journal article
50803
10.5281/zenodo.172335
076b5447-7740-4af0-aef5-e34d9724424f
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172335
Gonatocerus atriclavus
Girault, 1917
(
Figs 15, 16
)
Gonatocerus triguttatus atriclavus
Girault 1917
: 19
(as a new variety).
Gonatocerus triguttatus atriclavus
Girault
:
Huber 1988
: 57
.
Gonatocerus atriclavus
Girault
:
Triapitsyn, Bezark and Morgan 2002
: 35
–38 (
lectotype
designation, redescription, diagnosis, distribution, host associations, failed rearing attempts on eggs of
H. coagulata
).
FIGURES 15–17.
Gonatocerus
spp. 15, 16.
G. atriclavus
(female). 15. Antenna. 16. Forewing. 17. Forewing of
G. fasciatus
(female).
Type
locality
Mitan,
Trinidad
Island,
Trinidad and Tobago
.
Material examined [
UCRC
]
ARGENTINA
.
JUJUY
, Santa Clara,
13.iv.2003
, G. Logarzo (ex. egg of a proconiine sharpshooter on mandarin) [
1 female
].
MEXICO
. VERACRUZ: Tamos,
27.iii.2001
, D. Morgan, C. Pickett, S.M. Myartseva, A. Ríos (ex. eggs of
Homalodisca
sp. on hibiscus leaf) [
5 females
]. Temiahua,
14–15.ii.2001
, G. Simmons, A. Ríos (ex. egg mass of an unknown proconiine sharpshooter on a salt marsh shrub leaf) [
8 females
].
Diagnosis
Body length 1580–1900. Female coloration as follows. Head pale except upper face and ocellar triangle brown, trabeculae and occiput dark brown, eyes and ocelli dusky. Antenna with scape yellow to light brown; pedicel, F1–F3, F4 (basally) and F7 brown; F4 (distally), F5 and F6 light brown; F8 dark brown; clava black. Neck pale, pronotum pale brown with darker spots; mesoscutum orangebrown anteriorly and yellowish posteriorly, notauli black; anterior scutellum light brown to brown; axilla brown with darker spot at middle; posterior scutellum yellowishorangebrown; dorsellum, propodeum, pro, meso, and metapleura brown; lateral panels of metanotum and propodeal carinae dark brown. Legs yellowishbrown except all tarsi, meso and metatibiae brown. Wings hyaline; venation brown to dark brown. Petiole dark brown; gaster pale to light yellow with dark brown bands on terga; ovipositor plates brown. Male coloration as follows. Antenna brown to dark brown except base of scape yellow; face brown; ocellar triangle and occiput dark brown, remainder of vertex and gena light brown; eyes and ocelli pinkish brown. Neck light brown; pronotum, mesoscutum (except light brown edges of lateral lobes), axilla, anterior and posterior scutellum, dorsellum, and propodeum shining brown; mesosomal pleura light brown. All legs light brown except mesotibia and meso and metatarsi slightly darker, metatibia brown. Petiole brown, gaster light brown with several dark crossbands on terga. Female antenna (
Fig. 15
) with a dilated scape and very long clava; longitudinal sensilla present on F2–F8. Submedial carinae on the propodeum complete, reaching the dorsellum. Forewing (
Fig. 16
) with cubital row of microtrichia complete, extending to base of marginal vein.
Distribution
Argentina
(new record),
Mexico
,
Trinidad and Tobago
. In the Nearctic region, this species was recorded only from Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas,
Mexico
(
Triapitsyn, Bezark and Morgan 2002
).