Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea) novifasciatus Girault, 1911

Triapitsyn, Serguei V., Huber, John T., Logarzo, Guillermo A., Berezovskiy, Vladimir V. & Aquino, Daniel A., 2010, Review of Gonatocerus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Neotropical region, with description of eleven new species, Zootaxa 2456, pp. 1-243 : 199-201

Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea) novifasciatus Girault, 1911

( Figs 417–423 )

Gonatocerus novifasciatus Girault 1911: 266 –267. Holotype female [USNM] (not examined). Type locality: an unspecified locality in Tennessee, USA.

Lymaenon novifasciatus (Girault) : Burks 1958: 63 (catalog); Turner & Pollard 1959: 26 (host association); Peck 1963: 24 (catalog).

Gonatocerus novifasciatus Girault : Huber 1988: 63 –65 (taxonomic history, redescription, diagnosis, distribution, host associations); Yoshimoto 1990: 40 (list, ater species group); De Santis & Fidalgo 1994: 125 (catalog); Triapitsyn et al. 1998: 241, 243 (host association in California); Triapitsyn et al. 2006: 62–63 (molecular data); Triapitsyn 2006a: 27 (illustration), 28–30 (diagnosis, distribution, host associations); de León et al. 2006a: 42 (molecular data); de León et al. 2006d: 54 (molecular data); de León et al. 2006e: 57–58 (molecular data); Bernal et al. 2007: 67 –68 (record from Sonora, Mexico); de León & Morgan 2007: 83 (molecular data); de León et al. 2008: 99, 105 (molecular data); Triapitsyn & Bernal 2009: 7 (host associations).

Material examined. COLOMBIA. MAGDALENA, Parque Nacional Natural Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, La Estación , 10°48’N 73°39’W, 2220 m, 15–31.vii.2000, J. Cantillo [2 ♀, UCRC] . GUATEMALA. SACATEPÉQUEZ, Sumpango, Durwest Farm , 14°40.292’N 90°43.195’W, 5985’, 1–13.xii.2007, M.S. Hoddle [2 ♀, UCRC] . MEXICO. VERACRUZ, Orizaba , 28.vi.1966, J.S. Buskets, N.R. & R.C. Gardner [1 ♀, UCDC] .

Extralimital records. USA. ARIZONA, Graham Co., Coronado National Forest , Snow Flat , 32°39’15’’N 109°51’49’’W, 2690 m, 19–20.viii.2001, J.B. Woolley [1 ♀, UCRC] . CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles Co.: Altadena, 1.iv.1963, R.H. Crandall [1 ♀, LACM]. Santa Monica Mountains , Big Rock Road , 34°02’N 118°37’W, 12-18.vi.1997, M.E. Irwin [3 ♀, 4 ♂, UCDC]. Monterey Co. , Monterey State Beach North (near Seaside), 36°37’N 121°51’W, 8.vi.2005, S.L. Heydon [1 ♀, UCDC] . MISSISSIPPI, Washington Co., Delta Experimental Forest (near Stoneville ), 33°27’N 90°55’W, 25.v-8.vi.1998, N.M. Schiff [1 ♀, UCDC] . NEW YORK, Onondaga Co., Jamesville, Henneberry Rd. , 42°55’00’’N 76°00’23’’W, 17–27.vii.2001, M. Wuenschel [1 ♀, UCRC] . PENNSYLVANIA, Montgomery Co., Lansdale, 1108 Amber Lane , 40°14’12’’N 75°18’47’’W, 20–27.ix.2001, R. Kaufhold [1 ♂, UCRC].

Redescription. See Huber (1988).

Diagnosis. Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea) novifasciatus is a member of the ater subgroup of the ater species group. Its main distinguishing features are as follows. Body dark brown. Female antenna ( Fig. 417 ) with mps usually present on F3–F8 (F4 rarely lacking mps), F1 and F2 usually without mps (F2 rarely with 1 mps). Male antenna ( Fig. 420 ) with F1 about as long as wide. Propodeum ( Figs 418 , 421 ) with submedian carinae uniformly thickened, united anteriorly at the dorsellum to form a closed median area on the propodeum. Forewing ( Figs 419 , 423 ) hyaline or with faint, uniform, brown tinge, and with usually distinct, occasionally indistinct, infumate spot just beyond the stigmal vein (Neotropical specimens tend to have a somewhat darker spot than Nearctic ones); discal setae absent behind venation except for a few setae behind apex of the stigmal vein. Male genitalia as in Fig. 422 .

Distribution. NEOTROPICAL: Colombia *, Guatemala *, Honduras, Mexico (Triapitsyn 2006a), and Venezuela ( Huber 1988). NEARCTIC: Canada ( Huber 1988), Mexico (Triapitsyn 2006a), and USA. OCEA- NIA: Hawaiian Islands ( USA: Hawaii) (Triapitsyn 2006a).

Hosts. Graphocephala coccinea (Förster) , G. versuta (Say) , Homalodisca liturata Ball , H. vitripennis (Germar) ( Huber 1988; Triapitsyn 2006a), and also very likely (although not yet documented) Oncometopia orbona (Fabricius) (Triapitsyn 2006a) ( Cicadellidae ).

Figures

FIGURES 417 – 419. Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea) novifasciatus ♀ (Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California, USA): 417, antenna; 418, dorsellum and propodeum; 419, forewing.

FIGURES 420 – 423. Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea) novifasciatus ♂ (Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California, USA): 420, antenna; 421, mesosoma; 422, genitalia; 423, forewing.