Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea) kikimora Triapitsyn

Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2013, Review of Gonatocerus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Palaearctic region, with notes on extralimital distributions, Zootaxa 3644 (1), pp. 1-178 : 141-143

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3644.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3501837

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scientific name

Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea) kikimora Triapitsyn
status

sp. nov.

Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea) kikimora Triapitsyn , sp. n.

( Figs 257–260 View FIGURES 257 – 259 View FIGURE 260 )

Type material. Holotype female [ ZIN] on slide: RUSSIA. PRIMORSKIY KRAY, Ussuriyskiy rayon, Gornotayozhnoye , ix.1999, M.V. Michailovskaya, YPT. Paratype: same data as the holotype except collected 5– 11.viii.1999, MT [1 Ƥ on slide, UCRC].

Description. FEMALE. Head, mesosoma, and flagellum dark brown; scape, pedicel, and gaster brown; legs light to dark brown.

Antenna ( Fig. 257 View FIGURES 257 – 259 ) with radicle about 0.2× total length of scape, rest of scape 2.8–3.3× as long as wide, slightly longitudinally striate; pedicel much longer than F1; F2 shorter than following funicle segments, F3–F7 more or less subequal in length and a little longer than F8; mps on F2 (1), F3–F8 (2 each) except F2 with 2 mps on one antenna in the paratype and F4 with only 1 mps on one antenna in the holotype; clava with 8 mps, long (4.1– 4.3× as long as wide), about as long as combined length of F5–F8.

Mesosoma ( Fig. 258 View FIGURES 257 – 259 ). Propodeum ( Fig. 259 View FIGURES 257 – 259 ) with well-developed submedian carinae extending to anterior margin of propodeum and not connecting to each other there. Fore wing ( Fig. 260 View FIGURE 260 ) 2.6–2.7× as long as wide; longest marginal seta 0.17–0.18× maximum wing width; disc with a brownish tinge throughout, bare behind venation except for at least 8 setae behind stigmal vein. Hind wing ( Fig. 260 View FIGURE 260 ) about 13× as long as wide; disc with a row of setae along each margin and additional setae basally and apically, almost hyaline; longest marginal seta about 1.6× maximum wing width.

Metasoma ( Fig. 258 View FIGURES 257 – 259 ) longer than mesosoma. Petiole about 0.5× as long as wide. Ovipositor occupying 0.5–0.6× length of gaster, not or slightly exserted beyond its apex (by at most 0.1× own length); ovipositor length: mesotibia length ratio 1.0–1.1:1.

Measurements (µm) of the holotype. Mesosoma 530; petiole 30; gaster 744; ovipositor 424. Antenna: radicle 45; rest of scape 188; pedicel 64; F1 30; F2 49; F3 67; F4 62; F5 67; F6 62; F7 64; F8 55; clava 251. Fore wing 1242:467; longest marginal seta 82. Hind wing 978:75; longest marginal seta 118.

MALE. Unknown.

Diagnosis. Gonatocerus kikimora is similar to G. crassicornis and G. kodaianus (Mani & Saraswat) . It differs from G. crassicornis in having a much longer clava (at least 4.1× as long as wide), about as long as combined length of F5–F8; in G. crassicornis the clava is about 2.6× as long as wide and a little longer than combined length of F6–F8. Gonatocerus kikimora differs from G. kodaianus by the relatively shorter and wider funicle segments ( Fig. 257 View FIGURES 257 – 259 ), particularly a shorter F2 relative to the length of F3, and a relatively wider fore wing (at least 2.6× as long as wide); in G. kodaianus F2–F7 are notably longer than wide and the fore wing is at least 3.0× as long as wide ( Zeya & Hayat 1995).

Etymology. The species name (a noun in apposition) is of a bog-living legendary creature in Slavic mythology.

Hosts. Unknown.

ZIN

Russia, St. Petersburg, Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute

UCRC

USA, California, Riverside, University of California

ZIN

Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, Zoological Museum

UCRC

University of California, Riverside

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mymaridae

Genus

Gonatocerus

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