Cosmocomoidea Howard, 1908

Aishan, Zhulidezi, Triapitsyn, Serguei V., Xu, Mei, Lin, Nai-Quan & Hu, Hong-Ying, 2016, Review of Cosmocomoidea (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from China, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 4085 (4), pp. 525-535 : 526

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.4.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3513589

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scientific name

Cosmocomoidea Howard, 1908
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Cosmocomoidea Howard, 1908

Cosmocomoidea Howard 1908: 68 –69 (type species: Cosmocomoidea morrilli Howard View in CoL , by monotypy); Huber 2015: 15 View Cited Treatment –22 (revived status, diagnosis, redescription, discussion, distribution, list of species in the world).

Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea) View in CoL : Triapitsyn et al. 2010: 94 View Cited Treatment –95 (as a subgenus under Gonatocerus View in CoL ); Triapitsyn 2013a: 117 View Cited Treatment –119 (taxonomic history, diagnosis, key to Palearctic species).

Diagnosis. Specimens of most species are relatively large for fairyflies, average body length more than 1 mm; subantennal sulci strongly convergent and close together at mouth margin; ocellar triangle with 2 setae; female antenna with funicle 8-segmented; pronotum divided into two abutting lobes; dorsellum triangular to rhomboidal; propodeum with two submedian carinae; fore wing often with a large bare area behind marginal vein.

Cosmocomoidea was erected by Howard (1908) with C. morrilli Howard View in CoL as its type species. Annecke & Doutt (1961) classified it as a subgenus under Lymaenon Walker. Both Matthews (1986) and Huber (1988) treated Cosmocomoidea as the ater species group of Gonatocerus View in CoL . Zeya & Hayat (1995) revised the Indian species of Cosmocomoidea also within the ater -group of Gonatocerus View in CoL , as did Zeya & Khan (2012) and Manickavasagam & Rameshkumar (2013). Triapitsyn et al. (2010) and Triapitsyn (2013a, b) classified Cosmocomoidea as a subgenus under Gonatocerus View in CoL and reviewed its species from the Neotropical, Palaearctic, and Nearctic regions, respectively. Huber (2015) divided Gonatocerus View in CoL into several genera within the tribe Gonatocerini . In his classification, which we follow here, Cosmocomoidea is regarded as a valid genus, though phylogenetic relationships among the closely related genera of Gonatocerini remain largely uncertain and may require a combined morphological and molecular analysis to resolve them more clearly.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mymaridae

Loc

Cosmocomoidea Howard, 1908

Aishan, Zhulidezi, Triapitsyn, Serguei V., Xu, Mei, Lin, Nai-Quan & Hu, Hong-Ying 2016
2016
Loc

Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea)

Triapitsyn 2013: 117
Triapitsyn 2010: 94
2010
Loc

Cosmocomoidea

Huber 2015: 15
Howard 1908: 68
1908
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