Revision of the Afrotropical species of Gonatopus group 3 (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), with description of a new species from Ghana
Author
Guglielmino, Adalgisa
Author
Olmi, Massimo
text
Zootaxa
2014
3802
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journal article
36848
10.11646/zootaxa.3802.1.3
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Gonatopus
Ljungh, 1810
Gonatopus
Ljungh 1810
: 161
;
Olmi 1993
: 77
;
Xu
et al
. 2013
: 354
.
Agonatopoides
R. Perkins 1907
: 33
(synonymized by
Olmi 1993
);
type
species:
Agonatopoides synchromus
R. Perkins 1907
, by monotypy;
Olmi 1984
: 1310
;
Olmi 1993
: 78
.
Type
species
.
Gonatopus formicarius
Ljungh 1810
, by monotypy.
Diagnosis
.
Female
: apterous or rarely fully winged; palpal formula 3/2, 4/2, 4/3, 5/2, 5/3, or 6/3; antenna with or without rhinaria; pronotum crossed or not by transverse furrow; enlarged claw with distal apex pointed and with one large or small subapical tooth (occasionally subapical tooth absent, then enlarged claw with distal group of lamellae); in fully winged forms, segment 5 of protarsus with more than 20 lamellae; tibial spurs 1/0/1.
Male
: fully winged; occipital carina absent or incomplete (in this last case, only present behind and shortly on sides of posterior ocelli); occiput concave; temple present; palpal formula 3/2, 4/2, 4/3, 5/2, 5/3, or 6/3; tibial spurs 1/1/2.
Distribution
. Worldwide.
Hosts
.
Acanaloniidae
,
Cicadellidae
(except
Typhlocybinae
,
Idiocerinae
,
Macropsinae
),
Delphacidae
,
Flatidae
,
Issidae
,
Lophopidae
,
Tropiduchidae
(
Guglielmino & Olmi 1997
, 2006, 2007;
Guglielmino
et al
. 2013
).
World species.
Four hundred and forty-one species are known (
Olmi & Virla 2014
), a hundred and eleven in the Afrotropical region.
Remarks
. Larvae of
Gonatopus
were described by
Ponomarenko (1975)
,
Carcupino
et al.
(1998)
,
Guglielmino and Virla (1998)
,
Virla and Mangione (2000)
,
Guglielmino (2002)
,
Mangione and Virla (2004)
, and Guglielmino
et al.
(2006).