Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea)? kodaianus ( Mani & Saraswat, 1973 )

Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2013, Review of Gonatocerus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Palaearctic region, with notes on extralimital distributions, Zootaxa 3644 (1), pp. 1-178 : 143-145

Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea)? kodaianus ( Mani & Saraswat, 1973)

( Figs 261–263 )

Ooctonus kodaianus Mani & Saraswat 1973: 78 .

Holotype female [ USNM] (not examined). Type locality: Berijam Lake, Kodaikanal Hills, Tamil Nadu, India.

Ooctonus kodainus [sic] Mani & Saraswat: Subba Rao & Hayat 1983: 138 (catalog).

Gonatocerus kodaianus (Mani & Saraswat) : Zeya & Hayat 1995: 66–68 (references subsequent to Subba Rao & Hayat (1983), redescription, type information, diagnosis, assigned to the ater species group ), 130, 135 (illustrations); Zeya & Khan 2012: 56 (distribution).

Material examined. CHINA. BEIJING, Beijing, Fragrant Hills Park , 23–24.vii.2002, M.L. Buffington [2 Ƥ, UCRC]. JAPAN. NAGASAKI, Nagasaki, 18.x.1921, [? C.P. Clausen] [1 Ƥ, UCRC]. RUSSIA. PRIMORSKIY KRAY, Ussuriyskiy rayon, Gornotayozhnoye , 43.66°N 132.25°E, 200 m, M.V. Michailovskaya: 6.vi.1999 [1 Ƥ, UCRC]; 10– 14.vi.1999 [1 Ƥ, UCRC]; 11–12.vi.2000 [1 Ƥ, UCRC]; 12.vii.2000 [1 Ƥ, UCRC]; 9–12.x.2000 [1 Ƥ, UCRC].

Redescription. See Zeya & Hayat (1995) (based on specimens from India).

Distribution. ORIENTAL: India.?PALAEARCTIC: Above records from China, Japan, and Russia need confirmation because a possibility exists that they may represent an undescribed species that is very difficult to distinguish morphologically from the real G. kodaianus from India.

Diagnosis. The females listed above fit in every regard the redescription and illustrations of G. kodaianus provided by Zeya & Hayat (1995), except the pedicel is only a little longer than F1 and perhaps the densely setose area on the fore wing disc begins slightly more anteriorly behind the stigmal vein than in the specimens from India. Therefore, I consider my identifications to be tentative although likely correct. The photographs I made of the females from Japan and China were compared by Mohammad Hayat (personal communication) with his wellprepared slide-mounted specimen of G. kodaianus from Tamil Nadu, India. Except for the noted difference in the relative lengths of the pedicel and F1, these are identical including the shape of the propodeal submedian carinae. The Palaearctic females are characterized by the following: body length 1335–1420 µm (slide-mounted specimens); body brown to dark brown, appendages light brown to brown; antenna ( Fig. 261 ) with scape minus radicle about 3.6× as long as wide, F1 the shortest funicle segment and about half length of pedicel, F2–F8 each notably longer than wide, mps on F2 (1) and F3–F8 (2 each), clava with 8 mps and a little longer than combined length of F6–F8; propodeum ( Fig. 262 ) with submedian carinae complete or almost complete, slightly curving anteriorly; fore wing ( Fig. 263 ) 3.1–3.3× as long as wide, with disc slightly infumate throughout, mostly bare behind venation except for a few setae behind stigmal vein; hind wing ( Fig. 263 ) 16–17× as long as wide; ovipositor short, occupying about 0.6× length of gaster, 0.9–1.0× as long as mesotibia, not exserted beyond gastral apex. Male is unknown.

Hosts. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 261 – 263. Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea)? kodaianus Ƥ (261, 263 — Fragrant Hills Park, Beijing, China; 262 — Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan): 261, antenna; 262, dorsellum and propodeum; 263, wings.