Boccacciomymar (Prosto) victoria ( Girault 1938 ) TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V. & BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V., 2007

TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V. & BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V., 2007, Review of the Oriental and Australasian species of Acmopolynema, with taxonomic notes on Palaeoneura and Xenopolynema stat. rev. and description of a new genus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), Zootaxa 1455 (1), pp. 1-68 : 54-55

Boccacciomymar (Prosto) victoria ( Girault 1938) , comb. n.

( Figs 98 –103)

Polynema victoria Girault 1938: 392 ; New 1976: 19, 58, 59 (illustrations). Type locality: Canterbury, Victoria, Australia.

Type material examined

Holotype female (on slide, QMBA), labeled: 1. " HYMENOPTERA Fam. 25 Mymaridae Polynema female Fairy fly 144"; 2. " Polynema female victoria Girault , Type"; 3. "39". The holotype is in a relatively good condition, which permitted easy identification of more recently collected conspecific specimens from other Australian states.

Additional material examined

AUSTRALIA: Australian Capital Territory: Black Mt., CSIRO, 35°16'S, 149°06'E, G.A.P. Gibson: 26.IV–2.V.1999 [3 females, CNCI]; 16–31.V.1999 [1 male, CNCI]. Canberra Nature Park, Black Mt. , Aranda Bushland, 35°15.89'S, 149°05.08'E, 27–28.XI.2002, J. George, J. Munro, A. Owen [1 male, UCRC] . Western Australia: Lake Muir area (SW of lake), 34°29.8'S, 116°38.0'E, 180 m, 18.XI.2002, J. Pinto, G. Platner [1 female, 2 males, UCRC]. 2 km SSW of Pithara, 30°24'S, 116°40'E, 26.IX.1981, I.D. Naumann, J.C. Cardale [1 female, ANIC] .

Redescription

FEMALE. Body and appendages mostly dark brown (gaster a little lighter than head and mesosoma) but scape, pedicel, F1 and most of leg segments (except distal tarsomeres) brown; scape with weak cross-ridges, longer than pedicel or any funicle segment ( Fig. 98 ); F1 longer than pedicel and subequal in length to F5, F6, and sometimes to F3, F2 the longest funicle segment, F3 (usually) and F4 slightly shorter than F1; longitudinal sensilla only on F5 (1) and F6 (1), clava about as long as combined length of F5 and F6, with 8 longitudinal sensilla; scutellum with row of frenal foveae; mesonotum mostly with reticulate sculpture ( Fig. 99 ); forewing ( Fig. 100 ) 4.3–4.4 x as long as wide, with about 4 rows of setae behind marginal vein; longest marginal cilia 3/4–4/5 greatest forewing width; hind wing (Fig. 101) about 18 x as long as wide; petiole (Fig. 102) longer than wide; ovipositor 4/5–9/10 length of gaster, not or barely exserted beyond gastral apex (Fig. 102); ovipositor length: metatibia length 1.0–1.2:1.

Description

MALE. Similar to female except for the normal sexually dimorphic features, such as antenna and genitalia (Fig. 103).

Distribution Australia.

Figures

FIGURES 98–100. Boccacciomymar (Prosto) victoria (female, Australia). 98. Antenna. 99. Mesosoma. 100. Forewing. FIGURES 101–103. Boccacciomymar (Prosto) victoria (Australia). 101. Hind wing (female). 102. Metasoma (female, ventral view). 103. Genitalia (male).