Goetheana Girault, 1920

Gumovsky, Alex, 2016, Review of Afrotropical species of Goetheana Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4147 (5), pp. 551-563 : 552

Goetheana Girault, 1920

Goetheana Girault, 1920: 97 . Type species: Goetheana shakespearei Girault, 1920 , by monotypy. Dasyscapus Gahan, 1927: 26 . Type species: Dasyscapus parvipennis Gahan, 1927 , by monotypy. Synonymized under Goetheana by Girault 1930: 4.

Goetheana Girault ; Bouček 1988: 597, 734; Schauff 1991: 29, 54; Triapitsyn 2005: 264 .

Goetheana is distinguished from other entedonine genera by the characteristic habitus of individuals ( Fig. 1 ), in particular the narrow fore wing with a rather long fringe of marginal setae in combination with the mesoscutal midlobe lacking setae, the metasomal petiole being extremely short, the genitalia of both sexes being rather minute (the ovipositor occupying not more than 1/3 the length of the metasoma), the head with a complete and straight suture extending across the vertex and behind the posterior ocelli, the reduced mandibles lacking teeth, and the flagellum with a minute F1 and a larger F2 tightly attached to a 3-segmented club ( Fig. 3 A).

Species are parasitoids of thrips, in particular of the family Thripidae ( Triapitsyn 2005) .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Habitus of Goetheana species. A, B, G. shakespearei, ♂; C, E, G. shakespearei / G. incerta, ♀; D, G. i n c e r t a, ♂; F – H, G. kobzari: F, ♀, G, H, ♂. A – G, combination of direct and reflected light; H, reflected light.

FIGURE 3. Antenna of Goetheana species. A – D, G. shakespearei, ♂; E, G, G. i n c e r t a, ♂; F, H, G. shakespearei / G. incerta, ♀; I, J, G. kobzari: I, ♂, J, ♀.