Egg Parasitoids of Proconiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in Northwestern Mexico, with Description of a New Species of Gonatocerus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)

Nine species of Mymaridae and Trichogrammatidae parasitic on eggs of Proconiini sharpshooters (Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) were collected in northwestern Mexico in relation to neoclassical biological control efforts against glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis (Germar), in California. Gonatocerus chula Triapitsyn and Bernal sp. n., which belongs to the ater species group of Gonatocerus Nees (Mymaridae), is described. Specimens of G. chula sp. n. were reared from eggs of the smoke-tree sharpshooter, Homalodisca liturata Ball, on jojoba [Simmondsia chinensis (Link) C. K. Schneider] leaves collected in central Sonora state, Mexico. Also given are new data on other egg parasitoids of Homalodisca spp. and Oncometopia spp. in Sinaloa and Sonora states, Mexico, including Gonatocerus atriclavus Girault, G. morrilli (Howard), and G. novifasciatus Girault, and the Trichogrammatidae Burksiella sp(p)., Ittys sp., Pseudoligosita sp., Ufens ceratus Owen, and U. principalis Owen. For the first time, a species of Ittys is recorded from eggs of Proconiini, and U. principalis from Mexico. Colonies of G. atriclavus, G. novifasciatus and Pseudoligosita sp. were successfully established in a quarantine laboratory at University of California, Riverside, on eggs of the glassy-winged sharpshooter. These three parasitoid species had never been reared under laboratory conditions. In addition, seven species of Proconiini were collected in central and northwestern Mexico: Cyrtodisca major (Signoret), Homalodisca insolita (Walker), H. liturata Ball, Oncometopia sp. cf. clarior (Walker), O. sp. cf. trilobata Melichar, O. (Similitopia) sp., and Phera centrolineata (Signoret). Oncometopia sp. cf. clarior, O. sp. cf. trilobata, and O. (Similitopia) sp. appeared to be undescribed species

New record of Stephanodes similis (Hym.: Mymaridae) from Iran

در میان زنبورهای متعلق به بالاخانواده‌ Chalcidoidea که در تاریخ 21/5/90 با استفاده از تله مالیز از استان آذربایجان‌شرقی، خسروشهر جمع‌آوری شده بودند، نمونه‌هایی با نام علمی Stephanodes similis (Förster) شناسایی گردید. این گونه برای نخستین‌بار از ایران گزارش می‌شود و بدین‌ترتیب تعداد گونه‌های شناخته شده از این جنس در ایران به دو گونه می‌رسد

The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps.

Chalcidoidea are mostly parasitoid wasps that include as many as 500 000 estimated species. Capturing phylogenetic signal from such a massive radiation can be daunting. Chalcidoidea is an excellent example of a hyperdiverse group that has remained recalcitrant to phylogenetic resolution. We combined 1007 exons obtained with Anchored Hybrid Enrichment with 1048 ultra-conserved elements (UCEs) for 433 taxa including all extant families, >95% of all subfamilies, and 356 genera chosen to represent the vast diversity of the superfamily. Going back and forth between the molecular results and our collective knowledge of morphology and biology, we detected bias in the analyses that was driven by the saturation of nucleotide data. Our final results are based on a concatenated analysis of the least saturated exons and UCE datasets (2054 loci, 284 106 sites). Our analyses support an expected sister relationship with Mymarommatoidea. Seven previously recognized families were not monophyletic, so support for a new classification is discussed. Natural history in some cases would appear to be more informative than morphology, as illustrated by the elucidation of a clade of plant gall associates and a clade of taxa with planidial first-instar larvae. The phylogeny suggests a transition from smaller soft-bodied wasps to larger and more heavily sclerotized wasps, with egg parasitism as potentially ancestral for the entire superfamily. Deep divergences in Chalcidoidea coincide with an increase in insect families in the fossil record, and an early shift to phytophagy corresponds with the beginning of the "Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution". Our dating analyses suggest a middle Jurassic origin of 174 Ma (167.3-180.5 Ma) and a crown age of 162.2 Ma (153.9-169.8 Ma) for Chalcidoidea. During the Cretaceous, Chalcidoidea may have undergone a rapid radiation in southern Gondwana with subsequent dispersals to the Northern Hemisphere. This scenario is discussed with regard to knowledge about the host taxa of chalcid wasps, their fossil record and Earth's palaeogeographic history

A Review of the Nearctic Species of the Thrips-Attacking Genus Ceranisus Walker (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)

The thrips-attacking Eulophidae (subfamily Entedoninae) known from the Nearctic region are reviewed. One new species, Ceranisus loomansi, is described. Four other species of Ceranisus are redescribed and illustrated based mainly on a study of their type specimens as well as on additional material from Arizona, California, Hawaii, Mississippi and Japan. Lectotypes are designated for Ceranisus americensis (Girault), C. nubilipennis (Williams) and C. russelli (Crawford). A key to eight species belonging to four entedonine thrips-attacking genera is given, and host associations are indicated for those species

Description of a new species of Entedonomphale (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Bulgaria, with notes on E. carbonaria

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Stephanocampta Mathot (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae): descriptions of two new species and the female of S. indica Anwar & Zeya from India and a key to world taxa

Palanivel, S., Manickavasagam, S., Triapitsyn, S. V. (2015): Stephanocampta Mathot (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae): descriptions of two new species and the female of S. indica Anwar & Zeya from India and a key to world taxa. Zootaxa 4012 (3): 479-492, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.

Entedonomphale carbonaria Erdos 1954

Entedonomphale carbonaria (Erdös, 1954) (Figs 1–4) Thripoctenoides carbonarius Erdös 1954: 345 + fig. 12 c (p. 346). Type locality: Tompa, Hungary. Entedonomphale carbonaria (Erdös): Triapitsyn 2005: 285 –286 (taxonomic history, synonymy, references, diagnosis, illustrations, distribution); Boyadzhiev & Triapitsyn 2007: 736 (key to the European species of Entedonomphale), 740–741 (record of the fully winged female from Oregon, USA). Thripoctenoides kaulbarsi Yoshimoto 1981: 723 –725. Type locality: Riceville, Ontario, Canada. Syn. n. Entedonomphale kaulbarsi (Yoshimoto): Triapitsyn 2005: 277 –278 (taxonomic history, references, diagnosis, illustrations, description of the male, distribution). Thripoctenoides albicoxis Szelényi 1982: 387 –388. Type locality: Nagyiván, Hungary. Synonymized under E. carbonaria by Triapitsyn 2005: 285. New material examined. BULGARIA. Montana Region, Reservoir Ogosta (near Montana), 43 ° 23 ’09’’N 23 ° 12 ’ 53 ’’E, 175 m, 9.iv. 2005, A.K. Antonov (sweeping grasslands) [1 brachypterous female and 1 fully winged female, PUPB]. Distribution. Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, and USA (Triapitsyn 2005, Boyadzhiev & Triapitsyn 2007). Comments. As previously suspected by Triapitsyn (2005) and Boyadzhiev & Triapitsyn (2007), the female of E. kaulbarsi indeed turned out to be just a brachypterous form of E. carbonaria. The antennae and other morphological features are identical among E. kaulbarsi from Canada and the specimens of E. carbonaria from Bulgaria and Hungary, hence the synonymy. Coloration of the legs seems to be quite variable in this species: the legs of the brachypterous female from near Montana, Bulgaria, are pale brown while the legs of the fully winged female from the same location are mostly brown to dark brown. To assist with recognition of E. carbonaria, which has never been properly illustrated, we provide photographs of the antenna (Fig. 1) and the reduced fore- (Fig. 2) and hind (Fig. 3) wings of the brachypterous female, as well as the forewing and the hind wing (Fig. 4) of the macropterous female.Published as part of Triapitsyn, Serguei V., Boyadzhiev, Peter S. & Antonov, Anton K., 2008, Taxonomic notes on Entedonomphale (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), pp. 61-64 in Zootaxa 1816 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27436

Entedonomphale postmarginalis Shafee, Rizvi & Khan 1988, comb. n.

Entedonomphale postmarginalis (Shafee, Rizvi & Khan, 1988), comb. n. (Figs 5, 6) Euderomphale postmarginalis Shafee, Rizvi & Khan 1988: 2 (description, key [as E. Postmarginalis]), 3 (illustrations, figs D and E [as E. Postmarginalis]). Type locality: Bullandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India. Entedonastichus postmarginalis (Shafee, Rizvi & Khan): Hayat et al. 2005: 10 (type information). Type material examined. Holotype female [ZDAMU] dissected on two slides, as follows. Slide 1 (head, one antenna, mesosoma and most of metasoma, and legs (with some segments missing) [under two coverslips]), labeled: 1. “Ref. No. 723 sp. n.”, 2. “ HOLOTYPE Euderomphale postmarginalis Shafee, Rizvi & Khan det. M. Hayat, 2003 ”; Slide 2 (one antenna, one forewing, and the ovipositor [under the same coverslip]), labeled: 1. “ 723 [in pencil] Ref. No 723 sp. n.”, 2. “ HOLOTYPE parts Euderomphale postmarginalis Shafee, Rizvi & Khan det. M. Hayat, 2003 ”. Diagnosis. Body and appendages mostly dark brown. Toruli slightly below lover ocular line. Antenna (Fig. 5) with scape (not counting a small radicle) 4.1 x as long as wide, a little dilated basally and medially. Pedicel longer than funicle; F 1 a little smaller than F 2, 1.1-1.5 x as wide as long, apparently without longitudinal sensilla; F 2 1.6 x as wide as long, at least with 1 longitudinal sensillum; clava entire, 1.6-1.7 x as long as wide. Mesosoma shorter than metasoma. Midlobe of mesoscutum with 1 pair of setae; anterior margin of scutellum slightly angulate. Forewing (Fig. 6) about 3.1 x as long as wide, with disc almost hyaline (with a slight brownish tinge throughout, perhaps a little more pronounced behind marginal and stigmal veins) and setose behind marginal and stigmal veins and beyond venation (more sparsely so behind base of marginal vein, and bare posterior of cubital row of setae); stigmal vein about as long as postmarginal vein; the longest marginal seta about 1 / 2 of maximal forewing width. Petiole longer than wide. Entedonomphale postmarginalis is undoubtedly a good species. In Triapitsyn (2005), E. postmarginalis would key to the couplets together with the species that have a hyaline forewing (i.e., E. boccaccioi S. Triapitsyn from the USA, E. bicolorata (Ishii) from Japan, Germany, and Ukraine, and E. esenini S. Triapitsyn from Madagascar). Entedonomphale postmarginalis differs from all of them by the female antenna, both funicle segments of which are wider than long (Fig. 5). Comments. This species was described (and is still known) from a single female holotype “ex aleyrodid on Citrus sp.” (Shafee et al. 1988). The host record seems doubtful and thus needs verification.Published as part of Triapitsyn, Serguei V., Boyadzhiev, Peter S. & Antonov, Anton K., 2008, Taxonomic notes on Entedonomphale (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), pp. 61-64 in Zootaxa 1816 on pages 62-63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27436