Boccacciomymar (Boccacciomymar) turneri ( Waterhouse 1915 ) TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V. & BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V., 2007

TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V. & BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V., 2007, Review of the Oriental and Australasian species of Acmopolynema, with taxonomic notes on Palaeoneura and Xenopolynema stat. rev. and description of a new genus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), Zootaxa 1455 (1), pp. 1-68 : 47-48

Boccacciomymar (Boccacciomymar) turneri ( Waterhouse 1915) , comb. n.

( Figs 84–86 )

Palaeoneura turneri Waterhouse 1915: 538 , plate XCII (as Turneri). Type locality: Mount Wellington (2300 ft.), Tasmania, Australia (2 syntype females [BMNH]).

Polynema schumanni Girault 1932: 1 . Type locality: Cedar Creek, Queensland, Australia (holotype female [QMBA], examined); Girault 1934: 2 (second, unnecessary, description); New 1976: 14–15, 52 (illustrations); Dahms 1986: 508 (catalog, information on type material). Syn. n.

Polynema quadripetiolatum Girault 1938: 392 . Type locality: Redland Bay, Queensland, Australia (holotype female [QMBA], examined); New 1976: 13, 52 (illustrations); Dahms 1986: 457 (catalog, information on type material). Syn. n.

Type material examined

Syntype female of P. turneri (on slide, BMNH), labeled: 1. " Palaeoneura Turneri female (Type) Waterh. Mt. Wellington, 2300 ft., S. Tasmania, 22.3.1914, 5.1545 [ BMNH type number, in red ink] R. E. Turner "; 2. "Type"; 3. "Mt. Wellington, S. Tasmania. 22 Mch. 1913"; 4. " 2,300 ft. R. E. Turner 1913-212.". The specimen is in fair condition but uncleared, mounted laterally on a slide, and lacking F3–F6 and clava of one of the antenna and F5, F6, and clava of the other antenna, and also missing some leg segments .

Additional material examined

AUSTRALIA: Queensland, Brisbane Forest Park, 27°25'05''S, 152°50'13''E, 3–9.x.1998, N. Power [1 male, CNCI] . Tasmania: Hartz Mountains National Park, 43°12'S, 146°47'E, 4.II.1983, I.D. Naumann, J.C. Cardale [1 male, ANIC]. 3 km E by S of Montumana, 40°58'S, 145°33'E, 17.i.1983, I.D. Naumann, J.C. Cardale [1 female, ANIC]. Speedwell Rd. , 40°54'S, 145°21'E, 18.i.1983, I.D. Naumann, J.C. Cardale [1 male, ANIC]. 3 km NE by E of Wayatinah, 42°22'S, 146°29'E, 23.i.1983, I.D. Naumann, J.C. Cardale [1 female, ANIC] .

Redescription

FEMALE. Body and appendages mostly dark brown but legs (except distal tarsomeres) brown; antenna ( Fig. 84 ) with scape longer than pedicel or any funicle segment; F1 slightly longer than pedicel and subequal in length to F2 and F4, F3 and F6 slightly shorter, F5 the shortest, and F6 the widest funicle segment; longitudinal sensilla only on F4 (1) and F6 (2), clava large, about as long as combined length of F4–F6, with 9 longitudinal sensilla (one of the apical ones much shorter than the others); scutellum with a row of frenal foveae; forewing ( Fig. 85 ) about 2.9 x as long as wide, with about 4 rows of setae behind marginal vein; longest marginal cilia at most 1/4 greatest forewing width; petiole extremely swollen (1.2–1.3 x as long as wide), dorsally with numerous minute setae; ovipositor about 4/5 length of gaster, barely exserted beyond gastral apex (by about 1/20 of its own length); ovipositor length: metatibia length 1.2–1.3:1.

Description

MALE. Similar to female except for normal sexually dimorphic features such as antenna (all flagellar segments longer than scape), genitalia ( Fig. 86 ), and the following. Forewing about 3.0 x as long as wide, with longest marginal setae significantly longer than in female (1/2–3/5 greatest forewing width); petiole not as swollen as in female (1.7–1.8 x as long as wide).

Distribution

Australia.

Figures

FIGURES 84–86. Boccacciomymar (Boccacciomymar) turneri (Australia). 84. Antenna (female). 85. Forewing (female). 86. Genitalia (male).