Gonatocerus atriclavus Girault, 1917
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.172335 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6263501 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B187FB-4C59-A973-B553-FC89C517F956 |
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Gonatocerus atriclavus Girault, 1917 |
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Gonatocerus atriclavus Girault, 1917 View in CoL
( Figs 15, 16 View FIGURES 15 – 17 )
Gonatocerus triguttatus atriclavus Girault 1917: 19 View in CoL (as a new variety). Gonatocerus triguttatus atriclavus Girault View in CoL : Huber 1988: 57.
Gonatocerus atriclavus Girault View in CoL : Triapitsyn, Bezark and Morgan 2002: 35 –38 (lectotype designation, redescription, diagnosis, distribution, host associations, failed rearing attempts on eggs of H. coagulata View in CoL ).
Type locality
Mitan, Trinidad Island, Trinidad and Tobago.
Material examined [ UCRC]
ARGENTINA. JUJUY, Santa Clara, 13.iv.2003, G. Logarzo (ex. egg of a proconiine sharpshooter on mandarin) [1 female]. MEXICO. VERACRUZ: Tamos, 27.iii.2001, D. Morgan, C. Pickett, S.M. Myartseva, A. Ríos (ex. eggs of Homalodisca sp. on hibiscus leaf) [5 females]. Temiahua, 14–15.ii.2001, G. Simmons, A. Ríos (ex. egg mass of an unknown proconiine sharpshooter on a salt marsh shrub leaf) [8 females].
Diagnosis
Body length 1580–1900. Female coloration as follows. Head pale except upper face and ocellar triangle brown, trabeculae and occiput dark brown, eyes and ocelli dusky. Antenna with scape yellow to light brown; pedicel, F1–F3, F4 (basally) and F7 brown; F4 (distally), F5 and F6 light brown; F8 dark brown; clava black. Neck pale, pronotum pale brown with darker spots; mesoscutum orangebrown anteriorly and yellowish posteriorly, notauli black; anterior scutellum light brown to brown; axilla brown with darker spot at middle; posterior scutellum yellowishorangebrown; dorsellum, propodeum, pro, meso, and metapleura brown; lateral panels of metanotum and propodeal carinae dark brown. Legs yellowishbrown except all tarsi, meso and metatibiae brown. Wings hyaline; venation brown to dark brown. Petiole dark brown; gaster pale to light yellow with dark brown bands on terga; ovipositor plates brown. Male coloration as follows. Antenna brown to dark brown except base of scape yellow; face brown; ocellar triangle and occiput dark brown, remainder of vertex and gena light brown; eyes and ocelli pinkish brown. Neck light brown; pronotum, mesoscutum (except light brown edges of lateral lobes), axilla, anterior and posterior scutellum, dorsellum, and propodeum shining brown; mesosomal pleura light brown. All legs light brown except mesotibia and meso and metatarsi slightly darker, metatibia brown. Petiole brown, gaster light brown with several dark crossbands on terga. Female antenna ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 15 – 17 ) with a dilated scape and very long clava; longitudinal sensilla present on F2–F8. Submedial carinae on the propodeum complete, reaching the dorsellum. Forewing ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 15 – 17 ) with cubital row of microtrichia complete, extending to base of marginal vein.
Distribution
Argentina (new record), Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago. In the Nearctic region, this species was recorded only from Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas, Mexico ( Triapitsyn, Bezark and Morgan 2002).
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University of California, Riverside |
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Gonatocerus atriclavus Girault, 1917
Triapitsyn, Serguei V. 2006 |
Gonatocerus atriclavus
Triapitsyn 2002: 35 |
Gonatocerus triguttatus atriclavus
Huber 1988: 57 |
Girault 1917: 19 |