Cosmocomoidea fasciata (Girault, 1911)

Huber, John T., Read, Jennifer D. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2020, Illustrated key to genera and catalogue of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) in America north of Mexico, Zootaxa 4773 (3), pp. 1-411 : 138

Cosmocomoidea fasciata (Girault, 1911)

Gonatocerus fasciatus Girault, 1911 [96]: 265. Lectotype ♀ (INHS), designated by Frison, 1927: 227. TL: USA, Virginia, Arlington. Girault, 1929 [428]: 24 (key); Peck, 1951: 412 (catalogue); Fattig, 1955: 10 (hosts, distribution); Burks, 1967: 214 (catalogue, distribution); Herting, 1972: 14 (host catalogue); Burks, 1979: 1025 (catalogue); Webb, 1980: 118 (lectotype listing); Huber, 1988: 57 (description); Yoshimoto, 1990: 40 (list, species group placement); Triapitsyn et al., 1998: 241 (distribution); Triapitsyn & Phillips, 2000: 202 (candidate for importation); Triapitsyn & Hoddle, 2001: 133 (survey); Triapitsyn & Hoddle, 2002: 94 (field collecting, propagation); Hoddle, 2003a: 250 (interspecific competition); Hoddle, 2003b: 255 (behavior, biology); Hoddle, 2003c: 262 (collecting); Triapitsyn & Hoddle, 2003: 261 (distribution); Triapitsyn et al., 2003: 75 (biology); Coudron & Goodman, 2004: 304 (artificial diet and ovipositional substrates); Hoddle, 2004a: 111 (possible non-target impact); Hoddle, 2004b: 334 (mention); Hoddle, 2004c: 336 (mention); Hoddle & Triapitsyn, 2004b: 342 (distribution); Irvin & Hoddle, 2004: 505 (oviposition); Morse, 2004: 365 (percent parasitism); Pilkington et al., 2004: 133 (biology, phenology); de León, 2005: 299 (DNA fingerprinting); Hoddle & Boyd, 2005: 325 (hosts, choice/no choice tests); Irvin & Hoddle, 2005a: 205 (competitive ability); Irvin & Hoddle, 2005b: 392 (host suitability); Pilkington et al., 2005: 224 (biological control); Triapitsyn, 2005: 393 (key); Chen et al., 2006b: 1178 (release in California); de León et al., 2006b: 42 (molecular phylogram); de León et al., 2006d: 54 (molecular phylogram); de León et al., 2006e: 57 (molecular species boundaries); Hoddle, 2006a: 73 (mention); Hoddle & Boyd, 2006: 88 (non-target impact); Irvin & Hoddle, 2006: 162 (intraspecific competition); Morse, 2006: 92 (percent parasitism); Pilkington & Hoddle, 2006a: 266 (mention); Tipping et al., 2006: 6 (key), 20 (description, distribution, hosts); Boyd & Hoddle, 2007: 57 (host specificity testing); Boyd et al., 2007: 179 (rearing technique); de León & Morgan, 2007b: 753 (molecular markers); Irvin et al., 2007: 70 (dietary supplements); de León et al., 2008a: 99 (barcode); Hoddle, 2008a: 63 (relative abundance); Williams III & Hendrix, 2008: 26 (fitness compared to A. iole ); Hoddle, 2009: 19 (relative abundance); Hoddle, 2010: 16 (biological control in California); Rathé et al., 2012: 216 (introduction into California); Triapitsyn, 2012b: 10 (biological control, vouchers); Triapitsyn, 2013c: 293 (gregarious in host); Rathé et al., 2014: 2 (biocontrol mention).

Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea) fasciatus: Triapitsyn, 2013b: 213 (key), 216 (distribution).

Lymaenon fasciatus: Burks, 1958: 63 (generic transfer); Turner & Pollard, 1959: 26 (host, distribution); Peck, 1963: 22 (catalogue).

Cosmocomoidea fasciata: Huber, 2015a: 19 (generic transfer, list); Van Driesche et al., 2018: 27 (biological control).

Nearctic hosts. Cicadellidae : Homalodisca vitripennis (Germar) , Oncometopia orbona (Fabricius) , Paraulacizes irrorata (Fabricius) .

Distribution. USA: CA (apparently native to northern CA; also introduced to southern and central CA but apparently not established there), DC, FL, GA, IL, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA.