Goetheana pushkini (lat.) Is a type of parasitic horsemen of the genus Goetheana from the family of eulophids ( Eulophidae ). Found in East Asia ( South Korea , Japan ) [1] [2] .
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Description
Very small chalcidoid equestrians (body length less than 0.7 mm, front wing length 0.4 mm), endoparasitoids of thrips larvae of the family Thripidae . The color of the head and chest is from brown to dark brown, the belly from orange to orange-yellow, the legs and antennae are light brown. The antennae of the male scale are slightly extended (the ratio of length and width from 1.6: 1 to 2: 1). Fore wings very narrow with long bristles, whose length exceeds the maximum width of the wing membrane. Antenna mace 3-segmented. Scutellum with 1 pair of dorsal setae. The species Goetheana pushkini is found on thrips ( Thysanoptera ) Pseudodendrothrips mori (on the plants of the Mulberry family ). The species was first described in 2005 by the entomologist Sergey Vladimirovich Tryapitsyn (Entomology Research Museum, Department of Entomology, University of California , Riverside , California , USA) and named after Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin [3] [2] .
See also
- Goetheana rabelaisi Triapitsyn, 2005
Notes
- 2 1 2 Triapitsyn, SV 2005, Revision of Ceranisus and the thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the world. - African Invertebrates 46: 261-315
- ↑ 1 2 Noyes, JS (2012). Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids. Version as of June 2012
- ↑ Goetheana Girault, 1920
Literature
- Bennett, FD; Baranowski, RM 1982, First record of the parasite Goetheana parvipennis (Gahan) (Eulophidae: Hymenoptera) parasite from the Bahamas. - Florida Entomologist 65 (1): 185
- Boucek, Z. 1977. Taxonomic studies on some economical interest, mainly from Africa. - Entomophaga. 21 (4): 401-414.
- Hessein, NA; McMurtry, JA 1989, Biological studies of Goetheana parvipennis (Gahan) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an imported parsitoid, in relation to the host species Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouch) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). - Pan-Pacific Entomologist 65 (1): 25-33
- Triapitsyn, SV 2005, Revision of Ceranisus and the thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the world. - African Invertebrates 46: 261-315.