Prionomitus mitratus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Natural History Museum, Insects Division Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom
Description
Prionomitus mitratus (Dalman)
(Figs 1403-1411; Hab. E 206, G 207)
Encyrtus mitratus Dalman, 1820:352. Holotype E, Sweden, NHRM, not examined.
Encyrtus chlorinus Dalman, 1820:364. Syntypes G, Sweden, NHRM, not examined. Synonymy with Encyrtus mitratus Dalman by Thomson (1876:162).
Encyrtus coniferae Walker, 1837:461. Lectotype E (designated by Graham, 1969:245), Ireland. NMID, not examined. Synonymy with Prionomitus mitratus (Dalman) by Graham (1969:245).
Microterys mitratus (Dalman); Thomson, 1876:162.
Prionomitus mitratus (Dalman); Mercet, 1921:257.
DIAGNOSIS. Female (length about 1.1-1.9mm): head with a transverse purple band across top of antennal scrobes; fore legs, including coxae, completely yellow; head as in Fig. 1405; antenna as in Fig. 1403; ocelli forming an angle of 90°or more, posterior ocelli equidistant from occipital and eye margins or distinctly closer to eye margins depending on the relative width of frontovertex which varies from about one-third to two-fifths head width; fore wing venation as in Figs 1406, 1407; hypopygium (Fig. 1408) more or less completely enclosing ovipositor which is about as long as mid tibia, gonostylus (Fig. 1404) about two-fifths as long as ovipositor. Male (length about 1.0- 1.6mm): similar to female but for antenna (Fig. 1411) and genitalia (Fig. 1411); aedeagus slightly more than half as long as mid tibia.
DISTRIBUTION. Holarctic, Costa Rica (Trjapitzin, 1989; Noyes & Hanson, 1996; Noyes, 2019).
HOSTS. Not known for Costa Rica, but elsewhere reared from a variety of psyllid (Hemiptera; Psyllidae) nymphs including Palaearctic records from Cacopsylla cratraegi (Schrank), C. melanoneura (Förster), C. peregrina (Förster), C. pyri (Linnaeus), C. pyricola (Förster), C. pyrisuga (Förster), Livilla retamae (Puton) and L. variegata (Löw), and Nearctic records from Cacopsylla americana (Crawford), Ceanothia essigi (Jensen), C. insolita (Tuthill), Euglyptoneura fuscipennis (Crawford), E. minuta (Crawford), E. robusta (Crawford) and Pexopsylla cercocarpi Jensen (see Trjapitzin, 1989; Noyes & Hanson, 1996; Noyes, 2019),
BIOCONTROL. Prionomitus mitratus has been introduced into Canada (British Columbia) and USA (California) in an attempt to control Cacopsylla pyricola (Förster), a pest of pears. It has been partially successful in controlling this pest in Canada (McMullen, 1971). In Europe, P. mitratus is regarded as being important in the natural regulation of the same pest in southern France and other countries (Delvare, et al. 1981; Delvare, 1984).
MATERIAL EXAMINED
Non type material. COSTA RICA, 1E, San José, Cerro de la Muerte, Arroyo Muerte, 3200m, 7-13. iv.1985 (L. Masner); 1E, Hwy 2, km 93, [Cerro de la Muerte]. 83°45’W 9°36’N. 3200m, 1-7.iv.1985 (H. Goulet, L. Masner). Plus a further 32E, 24G, from CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, SPAIN, ITALY and MONTENEGRO as listed in Noyes & Hanson (1996). Material deposited in NHMUK, INBio, CNC.
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHMUK, INBio, CNC
- Event date
- 1985-04-01 , 1985-04-07
- Verbatim event date
- 1985-04-01/07 , 1985-04-07/13
- Scientific name authorship
- Dalman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Encyrtidae
- Genus
- Prionomitus
- Species
- mitratus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Prionomitus mitratus (Dalman, 1820) sec. Noyes, 2023
References
- Dalman, J. W. 1820. Forsok till Uppstallning af Insect-familjen Pteromalini, i synnerhet med afseen de pa de i Sverige funne Arter. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 41 (1): 123 - 174,177 - 182, tab VII-VIII.
- Thomson, C. G. 1876. Skandinaviens Hymenoptera 4: 192 pp Lund.
- Walker, F. 1837. Monographia Chalciditum. (Continued.) Entomological Magazine 4 (5): 439 - 461.
- Graham, M. W. R. de V. 1969. Synonymic and descriptive notes on European Encyrtidae (Hym; Chalcidoidea). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 39: 211 - 319.
- Mercet, R. G. 1921. Fauna Iberica. Himenopteros Fam. Encirtidos, 727 pp. Museo Nacional de Ciencas Naturales, Madrid.
- Trjapitzin, V. A. 1989. Parasitic Hymenoptera of the Fam. Encyrtidae of Palaearctics. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 158: 1 - 489. Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSR, Leningrad. [In Russian]
- Noyes, J. S. & Hanson, P. 1996. Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Costa Rica: the genera and species associated with jumping plant-lice (Homoptera: Psylloidea). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65 (2):`105 - 164.
- Noyes, J. S. 2019. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. https: // www. nhm. ac. uk / chalcidoids
- McMullen, R. D. 1971. Biological control programmes against insects and weeds in Canada 1959 - 68. 16. Psylla pyricola Forster, pear psylla (Hemiptera: Psyllidae). Technical Communication. Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Ottawa, Canada No 4: 33 - 38.
- Delvare, G. 1984. Cycle biologique et reproduction de Prionomitus mitratus Dalman, un important parasite des psylles du poirier (Psylla pyri K.; Psylla pyrisuga Forster) et de l'aubepine (Psylla melanoneura Forster, Psylla crataegi Shrank [sic]). Bulletin. Section Regionale Ouest Palaearctique, Organisation Internationale de Lutte Biologique 9 (5): 184 - 190.