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Gonatopus cristatus

Description

7. Gonatopus cristatus (Kieffer, 1922)

(Plate 126A–C, F)

Haplogonatopus cristatus Kieffer 1922: 67.

Megagonatopus birmanus Olmi & Currado 1976: 178 (synonymized by Olmi 1984); type locality: Palon (Myanmar).

Chalcogonatopus cristatus (Kieffer): Currado & Olmi 1979: 180.

Gonatopus cristatus (Kieffer): Olmi 1984: 1652; Penati & Olmi 2012: 78.

nec Gonatopus cristatus (Kieffer): Fiori 1984: 4.

Description of female (Plate 126A): apterous; length 6.2–7.5 mm. Head black, except mandible and lateral regions of clypeus yellow; antenna black, in some specimens with segment 1 brown-yellow; mesoosma and metasoma black; legs black, except tarsi testaceous; in some specimens coxae, clubs of femora and tibiae reddish. Antenna clavate; antennal segments in following proportions: 17:10:36:30:22:22:20:16:14:15. Head (Plate 126B) excavated, shiny, smooth, unsculptured; occipital carina absent. Palpal formula 6/3. Pronotum shiny, smooth, unsculptured, crossed by strong transverse impression, with disc not regularly rounded, but posteriorly compressed into median longitudinal carina. Scutum dull, sculptured by some longitudinal keels. Metanotum transversely striate. Metathorax + propodeum (Plate 126C) shiny, with anterior surface unsculptured and posterior surface transversely striate. Mesopleuron and metapleuron transversely striate. Meso-metapleural obsolete. Protarsal segments in following proportions: 26:4:10:32:46. Enlarged claw (Plate 126F) with one small subapical tooth and one row of eight peg-like hairs. Segment 5 of protarsus (Plate 126F) with inner side proximally not serrated, with two rows of 36–46 lamellae beginning in proximal third of segment 5; distal apex with at least 15–17 lamellae. Tibial spurs 1/0/1.

Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Types: ♀ holotype of H. cristatus: PHILIPPINES: Negros Island, Cuernos Mountains (USNM); ♀ holotype of M. birmanus: MYANMAR: Yangon Division, Pegu (= Pegù; = Bago), Palon, VIII–IX.1887, leg. L. Fea (MCSNG).

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. Philippines (Negros), Myanmar (Yangon).

Remarks. The record from India, Orissa, reported in Fiori (1984) is related to Gonatopus superbus Olmi.

Notes

Published as part of Xu, Zaifu, Olmi, Massimo & He, Junhua, 2013, Dryinidae of the Oriental region (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), pp. 1-460 in Zootaxa 3614 (1) on page 404, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5278372

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MCSNG , USNM
Scientific name authorship
Kieffer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Dryinidae
Genus
Gonatopus
Species
cristatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Gonatopus cristatus (Kieffer, 1922) sec. Xu, Olmi & He, 2013

References

  • Kieffer, J. J. (1922) Philippine Serphidae (Proctotrupidae). The Philippine Journal of Science, 20, 65 - 103.
  • Olmi, M. & Currado, I. (1976) Gonatopodinae extraeuropei conservati nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (Hymenoptera Dryinidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 81, 165 - 194.
  • Olmi, M. (1984) A revision of the Dryinidae (Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 37, I - XII + 1 - 1913.
  • Currado, I. & Olmi, M. (1979) On the identity of some Indian Dryinid parasites of rice leaf-hoppers (Hymenoptera Dryinidae). Il Riso, 28 (2), 179 - 181.
  • Penati, F. & Olmi, M. (2012 [" 2011 "]) Catalogue of Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale " Giacomo Doria " (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 103: 71 - 92.
  • Fiori, A. (1984) Ospiti nuovi o poco noti di Imenotteri Driinidi (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae). Frustula entomologica, N. S., VI (XIX), 1 - 5.