Ooctonus costaricensis (lat.) - a type of parasitic insect - a chalicide ( Chalcidoidea ) from the family Mymaridae . Endemic of Costa Rica [1] .
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Distribution
Costa Rica (Alajuela, San José) [1] [2] .
Description
Hymenoptera insects of a microscopic size dark brown in color. Body length about 1 mm (female dimensions - 845–973 μm ). The length of the abdomen with an ovipositor is 441-450 microns, the front wings are 902-1103 microns, the hind wings are 682-834 microns. Flagellum of females contains 8 flagellomeric segments; the final segment, the largest, forms a club (11 segments with pedicellus, annulus and scape ). The legs are 5-segmented. Wings with strongly reduced venation, no cells. The host on which these riders parasitize is unknown, but presumably, like other species of a kind, they are egg parasitoids of the winged insects (cicadas from the families Cicadellidae and Cercopidae ) [1] .
Etymology
The species was first described in 2013 by the American entomologist John Huber (Huber, JT; Entomology Research Museum) and named after its location [1] .
See also
- Goetheana pushkini
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Huber, JT Revision of Ooctonus in the Neotropical region and comparison with Boudiennyia (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) (English) // Zootaxa . - Auckland: Magnolia Press, 2013 .-- Vol. 3701, no. 1 . - P. 1-23. - ISSN 1175-5326 . doi: 10.11646 / zootaxa.3701.1.1
- ↑ Noyes, JS Ooctonus (English) . Universal Chalcidoidea Database . The Natural History Museum (www.nhm.ac.uk) (June 2012). Date of treatment August 28, 2013. Archived on September 15, 2013.
Literature
- Huber, JT Revision of Ooctonus in the Neotropical region and comparison with Boudiennyia (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) (English) // Zootaxa . - Auckland: Magnolia Press, 2013 .-- Vol. 3701, no. 1 . - P. 1-23. - ISSN 1175-5326 . doi: 10.11646 / zootaxa.3701.1.1
- Huber, JT; Read, JD; van Noort, S. 2010: The genus Ooctonus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Afrotropical Region, with comments on other Southern Hemisphere species. African entomology, 18 (2): 221-234. doi: 10.4001 / 003.018.0205
- Triapitsyn, SV Revision of the Palaearctic species and review of the Oriental species of Ooctonus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), with notes on extralimital taxa (Eng.) // Zootaxa . - Auckland: Magnolia Press, 2010 .-- Vol. 2381. - P. 1-74. - ISSN 1175-5326 .
Links
- Noyes, JS Ooctonus (English) . Universal Chalcidoidea Database . The Natural History Museum (www.nhm.ac.uk) (June 2012). Date of treatment August 28, 2013. Archived on September 15, 2013.
- Ooctonus Haliday. waspweb.org. Iziko Museums of South Africa
- Key to afrotropical species of Ooctonus. waspweb.org. Iziko Museums of South Africa
- eol.org