Review of Afrotropical species of Goetheana Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), with description of a new species
Author
Gumovsky, Alex
text
Zootaxa
2016
4147
5
551
563
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4147.5.3
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Goetheana
Girault, 1920
Goetheana
Girault, 1920
: 97
. Type species:
Goetheana shakespearei
Girault, 1920
, by monotypy.
Dasyscapus
Gahan, 1927
: 26
. Type species:
Dasyscapus parvipennis
Gahan, 1927
, by monotypy. Synonymized under
Goetheana
by
Girault 1930
: 4
.
Goetheana
Girault
;
Bouček 1988
: 597
, 734;
Schauff 1991
: 29
, 54;
Triapitsyn 2005
: 264
.
Goetheana
is distinguished from other entedonine genera by the characteristic habitus of individuals (
Fig. 1
), in particular the narrow fore wing with a rather long fringe of marginal setae in combination with the mesoscutal midlobe lacking setae, the metasomal petiole being extremely short, the genitalia of both sexes being rather minute (the ovipositor occupying not more than 1/3 the length of the metasoma), the head with a complete and straight suture extending across the vertex and behind the posterior ocelli, the reduced mandibles lacking teeth, and the flagellum with a minute F1 and a larger F2 tightly attached to a 3-segmented club (
Fig. 3
A).
Species are parasitoids of thrips, in particular of the family
Thripidae (
Triapitsyn 2005
)
.