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Gonatopus Ljungh 1810

  • 1. Tropical Entomology Research Center, Via De Gasperi 10, 01100 Viterbo, Italy.
  • 2. Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Animal Biology section, University of Catania, Italy.
  • 3. Department of Agriculture, Forests, Nature and Energy, University of Tuscia, Via San Camillo de Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy.

Description

Gonatopus Ljungh, 1810

Gonatopus Ljungh 1810: 161.

Dicondylus Haliday in Curtis 1829: 110 (synonymized by Olmi 1993); type species: Dicondylus bicolor (Haliday in Curtis 1828), by subsequent designation of Kieffer (1914).

Type species. Gonatopus formicarius Ljungh 1810, by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Female: apterous or rarely fully winged; palpal formula 3/2, 4/2, 4/3, 5/2, 5/3, or 6/3; antenna with or without rhinaria; pronotum crossed or not by transverse furrow; enlarged claw with distal apex pointed and with one large or small subapical tooth (occasionally subapical tooth absent, then enlarged claw with distal group of lamellae); in fully winged forms, segment 5 of protarsus with more than 20 lamellae; tibial spurs 1/0/1. Male: fully winged; occipital carina absent or incomplete (in this last case, only present behind and shortly on sides of posterior ocelli); occiput concave; temple present; palpal formula 3/2, 4/2, 4/3, 5/2, 5/3, or 6/3; tibial spurs 1/1/2.

Distribution. Worldwide.

Hosts. Acanaloniidae, Cicadellidae (except Typhlocybinae, Idiocerinae, Macropsinae), Delphacidae, Flatidae, Issidae, Lophopidae, Tropiduchidae (Guglielmino & Olmi 1997, 2006, 2007; Guglielmino et al. 2013).

World species. Actually 441 species are known (Olmi & Virla 2014), 46 from the Australian region.

Remarks. Larvae of Gonatopus were described by Ponomarenko (1975), Carcupino et al. (1998), Guglielmino and Virla (1998), Virla and Mangione (2000), Guglielmino (2002), Mangione and Virla (2004), and Guglielmino et al. (2006).

Notes

Published as part of Olmi, Massimo, Marletta, Alessandro & Guglielmino, Adalgisa, 2014, Revision of the Australian species of Gonatopus group 5 (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), with description of a new species from the Society Islands, French Polynesia, pp. 525-546 in Zootaxa 3895 (4) on pages 526-527, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3895.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/226872

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Ljungh
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Drynidae
Genus
Gonatopus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Gonatopus Ljungh, 1810 sec. Olmi, Marletta & Guglielmino, 2014

References

  • Ljungh, S. J. (1810) Gonatopus, novum insectorum genus. Beitrage zur Naturkunde, 2, 161 - 163.
  • Curtis, J. (1829) A guide to an arrangement of British Insects; being a catalogue of all the named species hitherto discovered in Great Britain and Ireland. [Parts 1 - 4] R. & J. E. Taylor, London, UK, 128 pp. [date of publication after Evenhuis 1997] http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 46860
  • Olmi, M. (1993) A new generic classification for Thaumatodryininae, Dryininae and Gonatopodinae, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera Dryinidae). Bollettino di Zoologia agraria e di Bachicoltura, Series II, 25, 57 - 89.
  • Curtis, J. (1828) British Entomology, 5 (49 - 60). J. Curtis, London, 46 pls. [pls. 195 - 241, UK]
  • Kieffer, J. - J. (1914) Bethylidae. Das Tierreich 41. R. Friedlander und Sohn, Berlin, 595 pp.
  • Guglielmino, A. & Olmi, M. (1997) A host-parasite catalog of world Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Contributions on Entomology, International, 2 (2), 165 - 298.
  • Guglielmino, A., Olmi, M. & Buckle, C. (2013) An updated host-parasite catalogue of world Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Zootaxa, 3740 (1), 1 - 113. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3740.1.1
  • Olmi, M. & Virla, E. G. (2014) Dryinidae of the Neotropical Region (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Zootaxa, 3792 (1), 1 - 534. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3792.2.1
  • Ponomarenko, N. G. (1975) [Characteristics of larval development in the Dryinidae (Hymenoptera)]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 54, 534 - 540. [in Russian]
  • Carcupino, M., Guglielmino, A., Mazzini, M. & Olmi, M. (1998) Morphology and ultrastructure of the cephalic vesicles in two species of the Gonatopus genus: Gonatopus camelinus Kieffer and Gonatopus clavipes (Thunberg) (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae, Gonatopodinae). Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, 34, 177 - 186. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 07924259.1998.9652651
  • Guglielmino, A. & Virla, E. G. (1998) Postembryonic development of Gonatopus lunatus Klug (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae: Gonatopodinae), with remarks on its biology. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, Nouvelle Serie, 34 (3), 321 - 333.
  • Virla, E. G. & Mangione, S. (2000) Morfologia de los estados preimaginales de Gonatopus chilensis y consideraciones sobre las estructuras relacionadas a la nutricion de sus larvas inmaduras (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Dryinidae). Neotropica, 46, 37 - 49.
  • Guglielmino, A. (2002) Modalita di alimentazione delle larve immature dei Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea): stato delle conoscenze e nuovi reperti. Bollettino dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali, 35 (361), 559 - 569.
  • Mangione, S. & Virla, E. G. (2004) Morfologia de los estadios preimaginales de Gonatopus bonaerensis, y consideraciones sobre la morfologia interna de sus larvas inmaduras (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae). Acta zoologica Lilloana, 48 (1 - 2), 91 - 102.