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Polynema (Polynema) imitatrix Gahan 1918
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Polynema (Polynema) imitatrix Gahan, 1918
Polynema imitatrix Gahan, 1918: 24. Holotype ♀ (USNM). TL: USA, Arizona, Tempe. Essig, 1929: 817 (host, distribution); Peck, 1951: 417 (catalogue); Thompson, 1958: 572 (host catalogue); Peck, 1963: 45 (catalogue); Burks, 1979: 1033 (catalogue); Graham et al., 1984: 250 (D-vac sampling, host, distribution); Lakin, 1985: 26 (description, biology), key (47); Yoshimoto, 1990: 83 (list).
Nearctic hosts. Membracidae: Spissistilus festinus (Say). Distribution. USA: AZ.
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Published as part of Huber, John T., Read, Jennifer D. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2020, Illustrated key to genera and catalogue of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) in America north of Mexico, pp. 1-411 in Zootaxa 4773 (3) on page 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4773.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3821373
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- Gahan
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Mymaridae
- Genus
- Polynema
- Species
- imitatrix
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- Polynema (Polynema) imitatrix Gahan, 1918 sec. Huber, Read & Triapitsyn, 2020
References
- Gahan, A. B. (1918) Three new chalcidoid egg parasites. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 20, 23 - 26.
- Essig, E. O. (1929) Insects of western North America. Macmillan Co., New York, New York, 1035 pp.
- Peck, O. (1951) Superfamily Chalcidoidea. In: Muesebeck, C. F. W., Krombein, K. V. & Townes, H. K. (Eds.), Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico-synoptic catalog. United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Monograph, 2, pp. 410 - 594.
- Thompson, W. R. (1958) A catalogue of the parasites and predators of insect pests. Section 2. Host parasite Catalogue, Part 5, Hosts of the Hymenoptera (Microgasteridae to Trigonalidae), Lepidoptera and Strepsiptera. Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Ottawa. pp. 562 - 698.
- Peck, O. (1963) A catalogue of the Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Canadian Entomologist, Supplement 30, 1 - 1092.
- Burks, B. D. (1979) Family Mymaridae. In: Krombein, K. V., Hurd, P. D., Jr., Smith, D. R. & Burks, B. D. (Eds.), Catalogue of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Vol. 1. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., pp. 1022 - 1033.
- Graham, H. M., Jackson, C. G. & Lakin, K. R. (1984) Comparison of two methods of using the D-vac to sample mymarids and their hosts in alfalfa. Southwestern Entomologist, 9 (3), 249 - 252.
- Lakin, K. R. (1985) Systematics and biology of the crop associated species of Polynema (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in southern Arizona (parasitoids, parasite, alfalfa hopers, leafhoppers). Ph. D. dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 84 pp.
- Yoshimoto, C. M. (1990) A review of the genera of New World Mymaridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Flora & Fauna Handbook No. 7. Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, 166 pp.