Gonatocerus mirivorus Kurdjumov, 1912

Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2013, Review of Gonatocerus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Palaearctic region, with notes on extralimital distributions, Zootaxa 3644 (1), pp. 1-178 : 171

Gonatocerus mirivorus Kurdjumov, 1912 , nom. nud.

Gonatocerus mirivorus Kurdjumov 1912: 14 .

Gonatocerus mirivorus Kurdjumov : Nikol’skaya 1952: 538 (mentioned, mirid bug host association).

Comments. No species was described under this published name ( Kurdjumov 1912) even though he mentioned in a footnote on p. 14 that “Its taxonomic description will be done in another place” (translation from Russian). According to Kurdjumov (1912), only one female parasitoid was reared in the beginning of August 1911 from an egg mass of the common and widespread grass-feeding bug Trigonotylus ruficornis (Geoffroy) (Miridae) in a clover experimental field. Kurdjumov did not specify on which plant but that most likely was implied to be clover. It is not known if this female still exists; unfortunately, I did not look for it during my visits to ZIN, where apparently the most important N.V. Kurdjumov’s specimens of Chalcidoidea are kept in a separate box (all the specimens were originally dry-mounted). These specimens from the Kurdjumov collection in Poltava (now in Ukraine) were brought to ZIN by M.N. Nikol’skaya (Vladimir A. Trjapitzin, personal communication).