Embolemus Westwood 1833
Creators
- 1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, P. O. Box 98615 - 538, Iran. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2999 - 9298; Shahla. moheban @ yahoo. com
- 2. Tropical Entomology Research Center, Via De Gasperi 10, I- 01100 Viterbo, Italy. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5953 - 5075; olmimassimo @ gmail. com
- 3. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, P. O. Box 98615 - 538, Iran. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1028 - 3211; zrahmani 017 @ gmail. com
- 4. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, P. O. Box 98615 - 538, Iran. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5199 - 762 X; erakhshani @ gmail. com
- 5. Unaffiliated Entomologist, Bogotá D. C., Cundinamarca, Colombia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9601 - 3038; cdianaa @ gmail. com Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, P. O. Box 9004, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia. Unit of Bee Research and Honey Production, King Khalid University, P. O. Box 9004, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia.
- 6. Biology Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, King Khalid University, Dhahran Al Janoub, Saudi Arabia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5286 - 026 X; dzubair @ gmail. com
Description
Genus Embolemus Westwood, 1833
Type species. Embolemus ruddii Westwood, 1833: holotype, male— Yorkshire, England, UK, OUMNH, (Figs 3A– 3K).
Type material examined. HOLOTYPE, ♂: UNITED KINGDOM, England, Yorkshire, Rev. (Reverend) G. T. Rudd (George Thomas Rudd) coll., des. H. Hilpert 1987, Embolemus ruddii Phil. Mag., W. Rudd, OUMNH.
Diagnosis (Male). Antenna filiform, first antennomere shorter or slightly longer than third antennomere (Fig. 3A); head swollen in dorsal view (Fig. 3F); face with two convergent longitudinal and median sutures from clypeus to antennal toruli; ocelli distinct (Fig. 3C); labial 2 or 3-palpomeres (Fig. 3C); maxillary 4 or 6-palpomeres, third maxillary palpomere broadened (Fig. 3C); macropterous, fore wing usually with Costal (C), Radial (R), first cubital (1Cu), and first medial (1M) cells enclosed by pigmented veins, second cubital (2Cu) cell almost always open, first medial (1M) cell occasionally open (Fig. 3B); tibial spurs formula 1/2/2 (Fig. 3A).
Distribution. Worldwide, except Antarctica (Olmi 1996, 1997; Chény et al. 2020).
World species. 39 species (Perkovsky et al. 2020; Olmi et al. 2020).
Host. Parasitoids of nymphs of Cixiidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha) living in the soil and feeding on roots (Olmi et al. 2014).
Type species status. Type specimen is glued to the triangular card on its ventral side and in good condition. Left antennomeres with the last four missing.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- OUMNH , T
- Family
- Embolemidae
- Genus
- Embolemus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Westwood
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Embolemus Westwood, 1833 sec. Moghaddam, Mohebban, Olmi, Rahmani, Rakhshani, Arias-Penna & Ahmad, 2022
References
- Westwood, J. O. (1833) Notice of the habits of a cynipideous insect, parasitic upon the rose louse (Aphis rosae); with descriptions of several other parasitic Hymenoptera. The Magazine of Natural History, 6, 491 - 497.
- Olmi, M. (1996) A revision of the world Embolemidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula Entomologica, 17, 85 - 146.
- Olmi, M. (1997) A contribution to the knowledge of the Embolemidae and Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Bollettino di Zoologia Agraria e Bachicoltura, 29, 125 - 150.
- Cheny, C., Guillam, E., Nel, A. & Perrichot, V. (2020) A new species of Ampulicomorpha Ashmead from Eocene French amber, with a list of fossil and extant Embolemidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of the world. BSGFeEarth Sciences Bulletin, 191 (20), 1 - 7. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / bsgf / 2020020
- Perkovsky, E. E., Olmi, M., Muller, P., Guglielmino, A., Jarzembowski, E. A., Capradossi, L. & Rasnitsyn, A. P. (2020) A review of the fossil Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), with description of seven new species and history of the family. Cretaceous Research, 121, 104708. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. cretres. 2020.104708
- Olmi, M., Marletta, A. & Guglielmino, A. (2020) The first record of the family Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) in Reunion, with description of a new species of Embolemus Westwood. Israel Journal of Entomology, 50 (1), 40 - 48.
- Olmi, M., Belokobylskij, S. A. & Guglielmino, A. (2014) Revision of the family Embolemidae of Russia and Ukraine (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), with description of a new species. Annales Zoologici, 64 (1), 97 - 108. https: // doi. org / 10.3161 / 000345414 X 680672