Toxeuma discretum Graham, 1984

Haas, Michael, Baur, Hannes, Schweizer, Tanja, Monje, Juan Carlos, Moser, Marina, Bigalk, Sonia & Krogmann, Lars, 2021, Tiny wasps, huge diversity - A review of German Pteromalidae with new generic and species records (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 77092-77092 : 77092

Toxeuma discretum Graham, 1984

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_38364 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann, T. Kothe, J. Reibnitz; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538116 ; Taxon: scientificName: Toxeuma discretum Graham , 1984; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Alb-Donau-Kreis, NSG Kleines Lautertal ; verbatimElevation: 627 m; decimalLatitude: 9.84115; decimalLongitude: 48.453817; Identification : identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 13/6/2013; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_001301; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_38372 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann, T. Kothe, J. Reibnitz; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538101 ; Taxon: scientificName: Toxeuma discretum Graham , 1984; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Alb-Donau-Kreis, NSG Kleines Lautertal ; verbatimElevation: 627 m; decimalLatitude: 9.84115; decimalLongitude: 48.453817; Identification : identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 13/6/2013; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_001309; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_38379 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann, T. Kothe, J. Reibnitz; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538140 ; Taxon: scientificName: Toxeuma discretum Graham , 1984; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Alb-Donau-Kreis, NSG Kleines Lautertal ; verbatimElevation: 627 m; decimalLatitude: 9.84115; decimalLongitude: 48.453817; Identification : identifiedBy: M. Moser; dateIdentified: 2017; Event : samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 13/6/2013; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_001316; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_38763 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann, T. Kothe; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538112 ; Taxon: scientificName: Toxeuma discretum Graham , 1984; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Lkr. Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, NSG Badberg ; verbatimElevation: 426 m; decimalLatitude: 7.680833; decimalLongitude: 48.096389; Identification : identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 18/6/2013; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_001700; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_39285 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann, T. Kothe; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538129 ; Taxon: scientificName: Toxeuma discretum Graham , 1984; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Lkr. Main-Tauber-Kreis, Tauberbischofsheim , ex Truppenuebungsplatz ; verbatimElevation: 331 m; decimalLatitude: 9.708083; decimalLongitude: 49.624467; Identification : identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 12/6/2013; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_002222; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_39292 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann, T. Kothe; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538150 ; Taxon: scientificName: Toxeuma discretum Graham , 1984; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Lkr. Main-Tauber-Kreis, Tauberbischofsheim , ex Truppenuebungsplatz ; verbatimElevation: 331 m; decimalLatitude: 9.708083; decimalLongitude: 49.624467; Identification : identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 12/6/2013; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_002229; institutionCode: SMNS

Ecological interactions

Parasite of

The host of the species is unknown, but is associated with Poaceae ( Helictotrichon sp.). Other members of the genus are reported to be parasitoids of Diptera ( Agromyzidae ).

Distribution

Scattered central and northern Europe incl. United Kingdom; Germany: Baden-Württemberg

Notes

Newlyrecorded species in Germany. The males are morphologically close to T. fuscicorne (Graham, 1984). The colour matches the description of T. discretum. Images: Fig. 43 .

Figures

Figure 43. Digital microscopic images of Toxeuma discretum Graham, 1984 (♀, Pte _ 001316: A - C, ♂, Pte _ 001309: D - F). A, D Habitus lateral B, E Habitus dorsal C, F Head frontal. Scale bars: A, B, D, E 500 µm; C, F 200 µm.