Ooctonus, Haliday, 1833

Huber, John T., Read, Jennifer D. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2021, Illustrated key to the genera and catalogue of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) in the Afrotropical region, Zootaxa 5036 (1), pp. 1-166 : 39

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5036.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5503346

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scientific name

Ooctonus
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OOCTONUS Haliday, 1833 View in CoL View at ENA

( Figs 204–209 View FIGURES 204–206 View FIGURES 207–209 )

Ooctonus Haliday, 1833a: 268, 1833b: 343 View in CoL . Type species: Ooctonus insignis Haliday, 1833 View in CoL , by subsequent designation by Westwood, 1839: 78. See Huber et al. (2020) for generic synonyms and their type species.

Diagnosis. Face without subantennal sulci ( Fig. 204 View FIGURES 204–206 ); female antenna with funicle 8-segmented ( Fig. 205 View FIGURES 204–206 ); pronotum entire ( Fig. 207 View FIGURES 207–209 ); propodeum with diamond-like pattern of carinae, the incomplete median carina, costulae and plicae, defining a central pentagonal areole and, sublaterally, several (usually 4) submedian areoles ( Fig. 207 View FIGURES 207–209 ); fore wing with hypochaeta next to proximal macrochaeta ( Fig. 206 View FIGURES 204–206 ); petiole distinctly longer than wide; gt 1 in lateral view usually as long as remaining terga together ( Fig. 209 View FIGURES 207–209 ).

Discussion. Ooctonus belongs to the Ooctonus group of genera. In the Afrotropical region it is the only genus in the group. Although Ooctonus was traditionally placed near the Gonatocerus group of genera it superficially resembles several genera in the Polynema group except for the obvious difference in number of funicle and tarsal segments. The position of the hypochaeta, close to the proximal macrochaeta, is more similar to members of the Polynema group than to members of the Gonatocerus group.

Afrotropical hosts. Unknown.

Important reference. Huber et al. (2010).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mymaridae

Loc

Ooctonus

Huber, John T., Read, Jennifer D. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V. 2021
2021
Loc

Ooctonus

Westwood, J. O. 1839: 78
Haliday, A. H. 1833: 268
Haliday, A. H. 1833: 343
1833
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