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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KROKELLA
Huber, 1993
(
Figs 500–518
)
Krokella
Huber, 1993: 349
.
Type
species:
Krokella fera
Huber, 1993
, by original designation.
Diagnosis
. Body length 385–485 μm. Face without subantennal sulci (
Fig. 501
,
513
); clava 3-segmented (
Figs 500
,
504
); mandible a minute stub without teeth (
Figs 501
,
513
); ocular apodeme apparently absent but ocular ridge with anterior margin greatly thickened (
Fig. 503b
); frenum divided medially by longitudinal sulcus (
Figs 511
,
515
); fore wing with venation extending more than half wing length. Male with mandible enormous, crocodile-like (
Figs 508
,
518
); flagellum 9-segmented (
Fig. 509
).
FIGURE 500
.
Krokella fera
Huber
, male paratype, habitus. USA, Florida, Dade Co., Everglades National Park, Long Pine Key, 31.viii–9.xii.1986, S. & J. Peck, pineland forest. Scale bar=500 μm.
FIGURES 501–504
.
Krokella
sp. 501, head, anterior; 502, head, posterior; 503a, head, lateral; 503b, head lateral (internal) showing ocular apodeme (as anteriorly thick ocular ridge); 504, antenna. Scale bars=100 μm.
Discussion
. Only two other Nearctic genera,
Neostethynium
and
Stethynium
, have the clava 3-segmented.
Krokella
differs from both by having the fore wing venation extending more than half the wing length. It is similar to
Neostethynium
based on the very similar male mandible, and to
Stethynium
based on the longitudinally divided frenum.
Important reference
.
Huber (1993)
.