Anaphes (Patasson) nitens (Girault, 1928)

Anaphoidea nitens Girault, 1928 [420]: 262. Lectotype ♀ (MVMA), designated by Huber & Prinsloo, 1990: 336. TL: Australia, Victoria, Ferntree Gully. Huber & Prinsloo, 1990: 334 (key); Millar et al., 1996: 508 (biological control); Hanks et al., 2000: 476 (biological control); Paine et al., 2000: 12 (biological control); Paine & Millar, 2002: 149 (biological control); Paine & Millar, 2003: 68 (biological control); Jetter & Paine, 2004: 314 (biological control); Riddick, 2005a: 63 (egg load); Boivin, 2010a: 459 (phenotypic plasticity); Mills, 2010: 394 (biological control success); Mapondera et al., 2012: 186 (host, biological control); Paine et al., 2015: 2498 (biological control success); Boivin & Ellers, 2016: 164 (ovigeny index); Paine, 2016: 717 (biological control); Schröder et al., 2017: 99 (biological control); Jeger et al., 2018: 21 (biological control); Van Driesche et al., 2018: 13 (biological control).

Anaphes (Patasson) nitens: Viggiani, 1994: 479 (male genitalia, key); Huber & Thuróczy, 2018: 28 (catalogue).

Anaphoidea gonipteri Ferrière, 1930: 38 . Lectotype ♀ (NHMUK), designated by Huber & Prinsloo, 1990: 336. TL: Australia, South Australia, Penola. Synonymy by Girault, 1930 [433]: 4.

Nearctic hosts. Curculionidae: Gonipterus platensis Marelli. The host was misidentified as G. scutellatus Gyllenhal in the publications listed above, other than in Mapondera et al. (2012). Over 100 extralimital publications treat A. nitens .

Distribution. USA: CA (introduced and established).