Fidiobia Ashmead, 1894

van Noort, Simon, Lahey, Zachary, Talamas, Elijah J., Austin, Andrew D., Masner, Lubomir, Polaszek, Andrew & Johnson, Norman F., 2021, Review of Afrotropical sceliotracheline parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87, pp. 115-222 : 115

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Fidiobia Ashmead, 1894: 170 (original description. Type: Fidiobia flavipes Ashmead, by monotypy); Dalla Torre 1898: 482 (catalogue of species); Ashmead 1903: 97 (keyed); Crawford 1916: 141 (description); Fouts 1924: 3, 6 (description, keyed); Kieffer 1926: 562, 563, 700 (description, keyed, key to species); Jansson 1939: 175 (keyed); Muesebeck and Walkley 1951: 709 (catalogue of species of U.S. and Canada); Masner 1956: 114 (subfamily placement); Jansson 1956: 87 (placement in Inostemmatinae ); Szabó 1958: 457 (key to species of Palearctic region known to the author); Muesebeck and Masner 1967: 300 (second supplement to Muesebeck and Walkley (1951)); Nixon 1969: 447 (diagnosis, taxonomic status); Kozlov 1971: 57 (keyed); Fabritius 1974: 294 (description); Kozlov 1978: 656 (key to species of the European USSR); Muesebeck 1979: 1174 (catalogue of species of U.S. and Canada); Mani and Sharma 1982: 208 (description); Masner and Huggert 1989: 67 (description, species list); Vlug 1995: 24 (catalogued, catalogue of world species); Kozlov 1995: 125 (keyed); Austin and Field 1997: 51, 68 (structure of ovipositor system, discussion of phylogenetic relationships); Buhl 1999: 18 (key to species of Fennoscandia and Denmark); Evans and Peña 2005: 61 (key to species of New World); Popovici and Buhl 2010: 1135, 1137 (description, key to species of Europe); Buhl 2011: 31 (modification to key to species of New World from Evans and Peña (2005)); Notton et al. 2014: 2 (new distribution record for Britain); Talamas and Buffington 2015: 8 (fossil in Dominican amber, Kishinehn formation); Veenakumari et al. 2018: 554, 555, 556 (description, diagnosis, key to Oriental species).

Rosneta Brues, 1909: 157 (original description. Type: Rosneta tritici Brues, by monotypy and original designation. Synonymized by Fouts (1924)); Kieffer 1914: 361 (keyed); Fouts 1924: 6 (junior synonym of Fidiobia Ashmead); Kieffer 1926: 563, 697 (description, keyed); Debauche 1947: 279 (description); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 396 (citation of type species).

Fidobia Ashmead, 1894: Kieffer 1914: 360 (keyed, spelling error).

Triclavus Brèthes, 1916: 411 (original description. Type: Triclavus bonaeriensis Brèthes, by monotypy. Synonymized by Masner, in Krombein and Burks (1967)); Ogloblin 1944: 156 (description, synonymy); Muesebeck and Walkley 1951: 708 (catalogue of species of U.S. and Canada); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 405 (citation of type species); Muesebeck and Masner 1967: 300, 301 (junior synonym of Fidiobia Ashmead); De Santis 1967: 227 (catalogue of species of Argentina); Kozlov 1977: 80 (keyed); Kozlov 1978: 656 (description); Kozlov 1995: 125 (keyed).

Fahringeria Kieffer, 1921: 68 (original description. Type: Fahringeria synergorum Kieffer, by monotypy. Synonymized by Masner and Huggert (1989)); Kieffer 1926: 563, 843 (description, keyed); Maneval 1940: 117 (keyed); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 353 (citation of type species); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 386 (citation of type species); Masner and Huggert 1989: 67 (junior synonym of Fidiobia Ashmead).

Platyllotropa Szelényi, 1938: 126 (original description. Type: Platyllotropa gallicola Szelényi, by monotypy and original designation. Synonymized with Triclavus Brèthes by Ogloblin (1944)); Maneval 1940: 115 (keyed); Ogloblin 1944: 156 (junior synonym of Triclavus Brèthes); Kozlov 1971: 56 (keyed).

Diagnosis.

Minute species (0.6-1.3 mm) with body slightly to considerably depressed dorsoventrally; mostly melanic, with brightly coloured appendages; vertex rounded without hyperoccipital carina. OOL variable, but in most species very short, equal to or shorter than diameter of posterior ocellus; antenna 9- or 10-merous, in females with abrupt, 3-merous clava; A8-A10 slightly less abrupt in males. Mesoscutum flattened; notauli (if present) abbreviated anteriorly, gradually dilated posteriorly. Fore wing in most species with short tubular submarginal vein. T2 the largest tergite, with two depressions anterolaterally ( Popovici and Buhl 2010).

Species richness.

Fidiobia benjamini (Nixon, 1969) (Kenya) (Fig. 13 View Figure 13 ).

Fidiobia celeritas van Noort & Lahey, sp. nov. (South Africa) (Figs 14 View Figure 14 - 16 View Figure 16 ).

Fidiobia danielssoni Buhl, 2001 (South Africa) (Figs 17A, B View Figure 17 ).

Fidiobia filicornis Buhl, 2014 (Togo).

Fidiobia semirufa Buhl, 2014 (Togo).

Fidiobia tanzaniana Buhl, 2010 (Tanzania).

Fidiobia tschirnhausi Buhl, 2014 (Togo).

Fidiobia zebra Buhl, 2010 (Tanzania).

Fidiobia species (Tanzania) (Figs 17C-F View Figure 17 , 18 View Figure 18 ).

Distribution.

Afrotropical: Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo. Cosmopolitan, excluding Antarctica ( Masner and Huggert 1989; Vlug 1995).

Biology.

Solitary endoparasitoids of weevil ( Coleoptera , Curculionidae ) and leaf beetle ( Coleoptera , Chrysomelidae ) eggs ( Vlug 1995). One species reported to be hyperparasitic through an ichneumonid parasitoid of the pine bud moth Exoteleia dodecella (Linnaeus) ( Lepidoptera , Gelechiidae ) ( Lemarie 1958, 1959). Two species are possibly parasitoids of various gall wasps ( Hymenoptera , Cynipidae ) on Quercus species ( Popovici and Buhl 2010), but they are more likely to be attacking beetle eggs laid in the old, empty cynipid galls ( Notton et al. 2014).

Comments.

There are numerous further undescribed species of Fidiobia from the Afrotropical region present in the collections of SAMC, OSUC and CNCI. These will be treated in a separate revision in collaboration with Ovidiu Popovici (Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iaşi).

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Figures

Figure 13. Fidiobia benjaminae female holotype (NHMUK) (B. M. TYPE HYM. 9.773) A habitus, lateral view B habitus, dorsal view C head, mesosoma, dorsal view D head, anterior view E data labels.

Figure 14. Fidiobia celeritas van Noort & Lahey, sp. nov. holotype female (SAMC) (SAM-HYM-P 095159) A habitus, lateral view B habitus, dorsal view C habitus, dorso-lateral view D habitus with wings spread, dorsal view E head, antennae, anterior view F mesosoma, T 1, dorso-lateral view.

Figure 15. Fidiobia celeritas van Noort & Lahey, sp. nov. holotype female (SAMC) (SAM-HYM-P 095159) A head, mesosoma, dorsal view B head, mesosoma, dorso-posterior view C head, mesosoma, lateral view D metasoma, dorsal view E metasoma, lateral view F wings, dorsal view (inset: data labels).

Figure 16. Fidiobia celeritas van Noort & Lahey, sp. nov. paratype male (SAMC) (SAM-HYM-P 095160) A habitus, lateral view B habitus, dorsal view C habitus, ventral view D head, mesosoma, dorsal view E head, anterior view F wings, dorsal view (inset: data labels).

Figure 17. Fidiobia danielssoni Buhl, 2001 holotype (MZLU) (A, B) and Fidiobia species (Tanzania) (SAMC) (SAM-HYM-P 015488) (C-F) A habitus, lateral view B habitus, dorsal view (insets: head, mesosoma, anteriodorsal view and data labels) C habitus, lateral view D habitus, dorsal view E head, mesosoma, lateral view F head, mesosoma, dorso-lateral view.

Figure 18. Fidiobia species (Tanzania) (SAMC) (SAM-HYM-P 015488) A head, anterior view B habitus, ventral view, C metasoma, dorsal view D metasoma, lateral view E wings F data labels.