Mymar, Curtis, 1829

Huber, John T., Read, Jennifer D. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2021, Illustrated key to the genera and catalogue of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) in the Afrotropical region, Zootaxa 5036 (1), pp. 1-166 : 37

MYMAR Curtis, 1829

( Figs 175–179 )

Mymar Curtis, 1829: 112 . Type species: Mymar pulchellum Curtis, 1832 , by designation under the plenary powers of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1965: 82 ( ICZN, 1965). See Huber et al. (2020) for generic synonyms and their type species.

Diagnosis. Toruli abutting transverse trabecula ( Fig. 175a ); scape, especially in female, usually unusually long ( Fig. 176 ); fore wing extremely narrow for about 0.6× its length ( Fig. 177 ), hind wing either reduced to a short stub or filamentous or, at most, with extremely narrow membrane ( Fig. 177 ).

Discussion. Mymar belongs to the Polynema group of genera as defined and keyed by Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy (2001) and Triapitsyn (2018a). In the Afrotropical region this group also includes Acmopolynema , Ganomymar , Mymarilla , Palaeoneura , Polynema and Stephanodes . Mymar has a unique fore wing shape and hind wing, in Afrotropical species, with ( Fig. 177 ) or without membrane.

Afrotropical hosts. Unknown.

Important references. Annecke (1961b), Triapitsyn (2018a [world key to species]).

Figures

FIGURES 175–177. Mymar africanum Annecke. 175a, head, anterior; 175b, head, posterior; 176, antenna; 177, wings. Scale bars: 175 = 100 μm; 176, 177 = 200 μm.

FIGURES 178, 179. Mymar africanum Annecke. 178, mesosoma, dorsal; 179; metasoma, lateral. Scale bars = 100 μm.