Gryon laetum Kozlov & Kononova, 2004

Talamas, Elijah J., Bremer, Jonathan S., Moore, Matthew R., Bon, Marie-Claude, Lahey, Zachary, Roberts, Cheryl G., Combee, Lynn A., McGathey, Natalie, van Noort, Simon, Timokhov, Alexander V., Hougardy, Evelyne & Hogg, Brian, 2021, A maximalist approach to the systematics of a biological control agent: Gryon aetherium Talamas, sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87, pp. 323-480 : 323

Gryon laetum Kozlov & Kononova

Gryon laetum Kozlov & Kononova, 2004: 201 (original description); Kononova & Kozlov, 2008: 332, 432 (description, keyed).

Comments.

Figure 1 - 4 in the original description matches the distinct habitus found in many species of Gryon (e.g., G. myrmecophilum ) and illustrates a striate interior of the axillula, which is a diagnostic character for the genus.

Figures

Figure 1. Best tree from the multi-gene, maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis of Scelionidae conducted in IQ-TREE. Branch support values were generated from 10,000 ultrafast bootstrap replicates and are indicated above branches. The positions of Hadronotus (Clade A), Gryon (Clade B), and Dyscritobaeus (Clade B) are indicated in green, blue, and red, respectively.

Figure 4. Phylogenetic relationships of Scelionidae based on a maximum likelihood analysis of 479 COI sequences. Branches in blue and red indicate Hadronotus and Gryon, respectively. Terminals belonging to G. aetherium are shown to the right of the phylogenetic tree. Terminals highlighted in yellow correspond to adventive G. aetherium specimens collected in Mexico and California. Scale bars indicate the expected number of substitutions per site.