Arescon Walker

Huber, John T., Read, Jennifer D. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2007, Paranaphoidea Girault 1913, Zootaxa 1596, pp. 1-111 : 25

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scientific name

Arescon Walker
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Genus Arescon Walker View in CoL View at ENA ( Figs. 42–46)

Arescon Walker, 1846: 50 View in CoL . Type species: Mymar dimidiatus Curtis View in CoL , by monotypy.

Leimacis Förster, 1847: 208 . Type species: Leimacis rufula Förster , by monotypy. Synonymy by Förster (1856: 119).

Xenomymar Crawford, 1913: 349 . Type species: Xenomymar urichi Crawford , by original designation. Synonymy by Annecke & Doutt (1961: 12).

Neurotes Enock, 1914 : cxxxiv. Type species: Neurotes iridescens Enock , by monotypy. Synonymy by De Santis (1967: 102).

Diagnosis. Arescon belongs to the Arescon group of genera. It is distinguished from Myrmecomymar , the only other genus in the group, as follows: ocelli enclosed by stemmaticum (series of lines connecting outer margins of ocelli); funicle 5-segmented ( Fig. 42); wings present and fully developed, with venation about 2/3 wing length and marginal vein much longer than submarginal vein ( Fig. 44); protibial spur not comblike along inner margin ( Fig. 43). Male flagellum 11-segmented ( Fig. 45) and genitalia as in Fig. 46.

Body length. 416–594 µm.

Distribution. Worldwide.

Hosts. Unknown for Australian species. Elsewhere reported from Cicadellidae .

Important reference. Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy (2003, 2004).

Australian species (4):

A. australia View in CoL ( Girault, 1916 [274]: 207) ( Leimacis ); Dahms, 1983: 88 (types). TL: NSW, Brooklyn.

A. hilaris ( Girault, 1936 [446]: 1) ( Leimacis ); Dahms, 1984: 691 (types). TL: Qld, Indooroopilly.

A. lomonosoffi (Girault, 1912 [120]: 119) ( Leimacis ); Dahms, 1984: 763 (types). TL: Qld , Nelson [= Gordonvale] .

A. nigriceps ( Girault, 1934 [443]: 2); Noyes & Hayat, 1984: 233 (transfer to Mymaridae View in CoL ). Comb. nov. from Anthemus View in CoL . TL: Vic., Canterbury.

Annecke, D. P. & Doutt R. L. (1961) The genera of the Mymaridae. Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea. Entomology Memoirs, Department of Agricultural Technical Services, Republic of South Africa, 5, 1 - 71.

Crawford, J. C. (1913) Descriptions of New Hymenoptera, No. 8. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 46, 343 - 352.

Dahms, E. C. (1983) A checklist of the types of Australian Hymenoptera described by Alexandre Arsene Girault: II. Preamble and Chalcidoidea species A - E with advisory notes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 21, 1 - 255.

Dahms, E. C. (1984) A checklist of the types of Australian Hymenoptera described by Alexandre Arsene Girault: III. Chalcidoidea species F - M with advisory notes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 21, 579 - 842.

De Santis, L. (1967) Catalogo de los himenopteros argentinos de la serie Parasitica incluyendo Bethyloidea. Publicacion de la Comision de Investigacion Cientifica de Buenos Aires. 337 pp.

Enock, F. (1914) On a new genus of Mymaridae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, 1913, cxxxiv.

Forster, A. (1847) Ueber die Familie der Mymariden. Linnaea Entomologica, 2, 195 - 233.

Forster, A. (1856) Hymenopterologische Studien. II. Heft. Chalcidiae und Proctotrupii. Aachen. 152 pp.

Girault, A. A. (1916) [274] Australian Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea. General supplement. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 5, 205 - 230.

Girault, A. A. (1934) [443] Miridae et Hymenoptera nova Australiensis. Privately printed, Brisbane. 3 pp.

Girault, A. A. (1936) [446] Chalcididae, Capsidae species nova australiensis Giraulti. Privately printed, Brisbane. 2 pp.

Noyes, J. S. & Hayat, M. (1984) A review of the genera of Indo - Pacific Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Series 48 (3), 131 - 395.

Triapitsyn, S. V. & Berezovskiy, V. V., (2003) Review of the Mymaridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) of Primorskii Krai: genera Arescon Walker and Dicopomorpha Ogloblin. Far Eastern Entomologist, 124, 1 - 15.

Walker, F. (1846) Descriptions of the Mymaridae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural Histiry, 18: 49 - 54.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mymaridae