Omyomymar howdeni ( Yoshimoto, 1990 ) Yoshimoto, 1990

Aquino, Daniel A., Triapitsyn, Serguei V. & Huber, John T., 2016, Nomenclatural changes in Mymaridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), Zootaxa 4205 (6), pp. 581-592 : 588

Omyomymar howdeni ( Yoshimoto, 1990) , comb. n.

Caenomymar howdeni Yoshimoto, 1990: 91 –92. Type locality: Panama, Chiriqui, 15 km NW of Hato del Volcán.

The holotype (CNC) of C. howdeni has a two-segmented clava, not entire (i.e., 1-segmented) as erroneously indicated in Yoshimoto (1990), and it also has a small apical projection. Thus, the only features that purportedly distinguished Caenomymar from Omyomymar were based on incorrect description of the female clava. This is perhaps not unexpected because the clava of O. howdeni is white, so the fine suture separating the two segments and the smaller than usual apical projection of the clava are difficult to see on the slide-mounted holotype and are scarcely visible in Yoshimoto (1990, fig. 31). Other features such as the fore wing shape ( Yoshimoto, 1990, figs 84 and 75 [the latter accidentally duplicated; it is supposed to be a Cleruchus Enock fore wing, which is not illustrated]), mesosomal structure, and distinctly exserted ovipositor are the same in both genera so we are confident that the generic synonymy is correct. Incidentally, fig. 72 in Yoshimoto (1990) was incorrectly labelled as Omyomymar (it is an Ooctonus Haliday fore wing) and fig. 62, which is supposed to be a Camptoptera Foerster fore wing (but is not illustrated), is a duplication of fig. 59, a Dicopus Enock fore wing.