Acmopolynema sema Schauff, 1981

Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2006, A key to the Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) egg parasitoids of proconiine sharpshooters (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in the Nearctic region, with description of two new species of Gonatocerus, Zootaxa 1203, pp. 1-38 : 6-7

Acmopolynema sema Schauff, 1981

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Acmopolynema sema Schauff 1981: 447 –449 + 450, 457 (illustrations). Acmopolynema sema Schauff : Triapitsyn, Hoddle and Morgan 2002: 654 –655 (distribution, host associations).

Type locality

Fort Valley, Peach Co., Georgia, USA.

Material examined [ UCRC]

USA. GEORGIA: Houston Co., near Centerville, 32°38’03.3’’N, 83°43’06.4’’W, 131 m, 21.vi.2004, S.V. Triapitsyn, T. Cottrell (collected together with adults of H. insolita on grasses) [1 female]. Peach Co., Byron, 3.viii.2005, T. Cottrell (emerged 4–9.viii. 2005 in the University of California, Riverside (hereafter UCR) quarantine from eggs of H. insolita on grass) [26 females, 5 males].

Diagnosis

Well described and illustrated by Schauff (1981). The main distinguishing features of this species are as follows. Body length 1000–1300. Body brown to dark brown; several antennal and leg segments, and petiole yellow to light brown. Forewing ( Fig. 1 ) with two large brown bands, enlarged modified discal setae restricted to the proximal large band.

Distribution

Florida, Georgia, and Texas ( Schauff 1981; Triapitsyn, Hoddle and Morgan 2002); common and widespread in southeastern USA; also occurs in Mexico and southeastern Canada (V.V. Berezovskiy and S.V. Triapitsyn, unpublished).

Hosts

Homalodisca insolita (Walker) ; under laboratory conditions, A. sema was also briefly reared (with limited success) on eggs of Homalodisca coagulata (Say) ( Triapitsyn, Hoddle and Morgan 2002) .

Figures

FIGURES 1, 2. 1. Forewing of Acmopolynema sema (female). 2. Anagrus epos (female).