Gryon gryonis Mineo, 1990

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 gryonis Mineo

Gryon gryonis Mineo, 1990a: 172 (original description); Johnson, 1992: 384 (cataloged, type information).

Comments.

The holotype specimen is very small, only about 0.7 mm in length, and is light in color. This makes it challenging to illustrate and interpret characters with brightfield photography. We believe that this species should remain in Gryon based on the apparently 4-merous clava, absence of transverse sculpture in the frontal depression, the glabrous metapleuron that is not dorsoventrally divided by sculpture or setation, and the presence of subgenual spines on the hind tibia (Figures 79-82 ). The lateral pit on T1 appears to be present but is difficult to discern. The shape of the clypeus and the presence of striation inside the axillar crescent could not be reliably determined from the images of the anterior head and lateral mesosoma, respectively (Figures 79 , 81 ).

Figures

Figures 79 - 82. Gryon gryonis, holotype female 79 habitus, lateral view 80 mesosoma and T 1, lateral view 81 head, anterior view 82 head and mesosoma, anterolateral view.