Platylabini (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ichneumoninae) of the south-eastern United States: new distributional data, taxonomic notes, illustrated keys, and an annotated catalogue of the genera and species
Author
Dal Pos, Davide
Author
Heilman, Victoria
Author
Welter-Schultes, Francisco
text
Journal of Natural History
2022
2022-12-02
56
1869
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2022.2134061
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Cyclolabus
Heinrich, 1935
Cyclolabus
Heinrich, 1935: 198
.
Type
species:
Platylabus nigricollis
Wesmael, 1845
by original designation.
Comparative diagnosis
From all the other four Nearctic
Platylabini
genera with small circular or roundish propodeal spiracles –
Apaeleticus
,
Carlsonia
,
Cyclolabus
and
Linycus
–
Cyclolabus
can be easily distinguished by: the strongly pronounced gastrocoeli; thryidia larger than the space between them; and the presence of distinct propodeal carinae (
Figure 10
).
Cyclolabus
is also morphologically similar to
Platylabus
Wesmael, 1845
, mainly differing from it by the presence of small and circular propodeal spiracles (
Figure 22
) (
Heinrich 1961
,
1962b
;
Tereshkin 2009
). However, as already noted by
Heinrich (1962b)
, the small species of
Platylabus
can also possess roundish and relatively small spiracles, rendering the demarcation of the two genera ambiguous for certain specimens. In these latter cases, the observation of other characters is necessary, and we have listed them under the genus
Platylabus
.
Range and diversity
Cyclolabus
has a worldwide distribution, with 11 species in the Nearctic and only two species occurring in the south-eastern
United States
(
Heinrich 1961
,
1962b
;
Yu et al. 2016
).
Key to the species of
Cyclolabus
from the south-eastern
United States
(adapted from
Heinrich (1962b))
1. Scutellum and mesoscutum ferruginous (
Figures 13a–13e
); pronotal ridge ferruginous (
Figure 13a
); inner orbit ferruginous or light ferruginous (
Figure 13c
)................... ...........................................................................
gracilicornis
gracilicornis
(
Provancher, 1886
)
- Scutellum yellowish white, mesoscutum ferruginous (
Figure 11a
); pronotal ridge yellowish white (
Figure 11a
); entire face yellowish white (
Figure 11c
).............................. .............................................................................................................
carolinensis
(Heinrich, 1962)