Goetheana shakespearei Girault, 1920

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Goetheana shakespearei Girault, 1920

Goetheana shakespearei Girault, 1920 a: 97 . (Type locality: Greenhills (near Cairns), Queensland, Australia)

Dasyscapus parvipennis Gahan, 1927: 27 , 28, pl. I. Synonymised under G. shakespearei by Boucek 1988: 735.

Goetheana parvipennis (Gahan) : Girault 1930: 4; Annecke 1962: 274–277.

Dasyscapus thripsivorous Narayanan, Subba Rao & Ramachandra Rao, 1960: 168 , 169. Synonymised under G. shakespearei by Boucek 1988: 735.

Goetheana thripsivora (Narayanan, Subba Rao & Ramachandra Rao) : Husain & Khan 1986: 224.

Goetheana shakespearei Girault : Dahms 1986: 526, 527; Boucek 1988: 735; Viggiani & Nieves-Aldrey 1993: 106, 107; Loomans & van Lenteren 1995: 137–146, 197.

Diagnosis: Good redescriptions and illustrations of this species are available ( Annecke

1962 (as G. parvipennis ); Viggiani & Nieves-Aldrey 1993). Scape of male antenna extremely swollen, 1.0–1.3 x as long as wide.

Holotype: Female [ QMBA], detailed label data as indicated by Dahms (1986).

Other material examined: AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: Berrimah BRF, 1.ii.1994, K. Hergestrom, 4^ 1ơ (“in insectary, collected on Cucumis sativa leaves, possibly parasitoid of Thrips palmi ”, Det.I.D.Naumann, 1995) [ANIC]. Queensland: 6 km W Chinchilla, 24.iv-9.v.1987, G. Lithgow, 1^ [QMBA]. Gayndah near Weir, 12.v.2000, C. Freebairn, 1^ [UCRC]. Mt. Glorious, 14.ii–25.iii.1983, A. Hiller, 1ơ [QMBA]. 28°04.05'S: 153°13.67'E, 11.xii.2002, J. George, J. Munro, A. Owen, 2^ [UCRC]. Western Australia: Geraldton, 23.x.1994, M. Steiner, S. Goodwin, 2^ [ANIC]. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Pedernales, Sierra de Bahoruco, “Las Abejas”, 1300 m, 17–19.i.1989, L. Masner, 2^ 1ơ [CNCI]. IVORY COAST: Bouake, xii.1980, P. Cochereau, 1^. THAILAND: Nakonpathom, parasitised thrips larvae coll. 13.viii.1999, T. Murai, parasitoids em. 26–28.viii. 1999 in Okayama, Japan, 2^ 1ơ [UCRC]. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Trinidad Island, Curepe, Sta. Margarita: 7–14.viii.1977, F.D. Bennett, 1^; 7.xii.1977, 1^ [CNCI]. USA: California: Riverside Co., Riverside, UCR lab. culture on Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (8^ 7ơ coll. 30.viii.1983 by M. Badgley [UCRC]; 7^ 10ơ coll. 14.ii.1985 by N.A. Hessein [UCRC]; no date, 4^ 5ơ [CNCI, UCRC]) of Bahamas origin (orig. coll. in 1983).

Distribution: Apparently native to the Australasian region; likely also to the Oriental region; introduced to many countries ( Hessein & McMurtry 1989; McMurtry et al. 1991; Loomans & van Lenteren 1995), sometimes possibly unintentionally ( Bennett et al. 1993; Kuslitzky 2003).

Hosts: Various Thripidae (Loomans & van Lenteren 1995) , including Ceratothripoides claratris (Shumsher) ( Murai et al. 2000) .