Gryon oligomerum Kononova, 2005

Talamas, Elijah J., Bremer, Jonathan S., Moore, Matthew R., Bon, Marie-Claude, Lahey, Zachary, Roberts, Cheryl G., Combee, Lynn A., McGathey, Natalie, van Noort, Simon, Timokhov, Alexander V., Hougardy, Evelyne & Hogg, Brian, 2021, A maximalist approach to the systematics of a biological control agent: Gryon aetherium Talamas, sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87, pp. 323-480 : 323

Gryon oligomerum Kononova

Gryon oligomerum Kononova: Kononova, Pavlicek & Nevo, 2005: 816 (description); Kononova, Pavlicek & Nevo, 2005: 1358 (original description); Kononova & Kozlov, 2008: 329, 406 (description, keyed).

Comments.

Figures 6 - 1 and 6 - 2 in the original description illustrate the anterior head and the female antenna, both of which indicate that this species belongs in Gryon . The holotype specimen is mounted in a way that prevents observation of the lateral mesosoma (Cristina Vasiliţa, personal communication), but the presence of a complete mesopleural carina is visible on some of the paratype specimens, which have identical collection data. Also, in the paratype specimen photographed, the acetabular carina and ventral mesopleural carina do not intersect ventrally, providing another character by which this species may be separated from G. aetherium . The medial infuscation of the fore wing, illustrated in Figure 5 - 1 of the original description, is similar to that of G. fasciatum , which was described from Egypt. Because G. oligomerum was described from Israel, these species should be compared in future work.

Figures

Figure 1. Best tree from the multi-gene, maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis of Scelionidae conducted in IQ-TREE. Branch support values were generated from 10,000 ultrafast bootstrap replicates and are indicated above branches. The positions of Hadronotus (Clade A), Gryon (Clade B), and Dyscritobaeus (Clade B) are indicated in green, blue, and red, respectively.

Figure 2. Position and phylogenetic relationships of Hadronotus relative to other Scelionidae based on the topology depicted in Figure 1. Colored boxes above branches correspond to the level of support obtained for that branch based on the support metric. Branches annotated with a single box received equal levels of support in all analyses. The scale bar indicates the expected number of substitutions per site.

Figures 5 - 8. Scutellar-axillar complex, lateral view 5 Gryon aetherium (USNMENT 01109155) 6 Duta (USNMENT 01109621 _ 2) 7 Hadronotus hogenakalensis (DPI _ FSCA 00008722) 8 Hadronotus carinatifrons (USNMENT 01335649).