Goetheana rabelaisi, S. Triapitsyn, 2005

Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2005, Revision of Ceranisus and the related thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the world, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 261-315 : 266-267

Goetheana rabelaisi sp. n.

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Etymology: Continuing A.A. Girault’s trend to name some taxa after the great poets and writers of the past (particularly in this genus), I am naming this new species after François Rabelais.

Diagnosis: Male scape moderately swollen (1.8–2.0 x as long as wide). Forewing with numerous setae behind marginal vein arranged in about 4 irregular rows ( Fig. 2 ), that distinguishes this species from C. pushkini sp. n.

Description: Female. Unknown.

Male (holotype and 2 paratypes). Colour (of slide-mounted specimens) of head and mesosoma brown, metasoma yellow or brownish-yellow, appendages light brown.

Antenna ( Fig. 1 ) with scape moderately swollen, 1.8–2.0 x as long as wide; flagellum with F1 longer than wide.

Mesosoma smooth except midlobe of mesoscutum with faint cellulate sculpture. Forewing ( Fig. 2 ) about 5 x as long as wide; longest marginal setae 2.0–2.2 x maximal forewing width; disc slightly infumated and with about 4 irregular rows of setae behind venation, otherwise bare except for a few scattered setae along margins in the broadest part (beyond venation). Hind wing narrow, about 13 x as long as wide; disc bare except for an irregular row of setae along each margin.

Genitalia as in Fig. 3 .

Measurements (n=1, holotype): Body: 738. Antenna: scape: 94; pedicel: 55; F1: 21; F2: 28; clava: 62. Forewing: 455/91; longest marginal seta: 191. Hind wing: 394/30; longest marginal seta: 139. Genitalia: 86.

Holotype: Male on slide, labelled: 1. “ AUSTRALIA: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, Black Mountain , 9.iv.1995, L. A. Mound, Collector’s code: 2639. On Exocarpus cupressiformis in association with Anaphothrips exocarpi . Mounted at UCR/ERM by V.V. Berezovskiy 2004 in Canada balsam”; 2. (red) “ Goetheana rabelaisi S. Triapitsyn HOLOTYPE ơ” [ ANIC].

Paratypes: Same data as the holotype, 2ơ on slides [ ANIC, UCRC] .

Hosts: Anaphothrips exocarpi Pitkin (according to the original label).

Comments: The type series of this species was remounted in Canada balsam at UCRC from Hoyer’s medium on a single slide, on which all three specimens had been mounted originally under the same coverslip together with a female of Stethynium sp. ( Hymenoptera : Mymaridae ). The original labels were as follows (now glued onto the bottom of the paratype slide retained at UCRC): 1. “ Exocarpus cupressiformis in association with Anaphothrips exocarpi A.C.T. Canberra Black Mt. 9.iv.1995 LA Mound 2639”; 2. “n. sp.? Goetheana (Eulophidae) x 3ơ Mymaridae x 1 = Stethynium sp. ^ Det. S. Triapitsyn 1999 Hoyer’s”. The holotype is in a very good condition but missing one of the hind wings.

Figures

Figs 1–3. Goetheana rabelaisi sp. n., male: (1, 2) holotype: (1) antenna, (2) forewing; (3) genitalia (paratype). Scale lines = 0.1 mm.