Cosmocomoidea virlai (Triapitsyn, Logarzo & León, 2007)

Huber, John T., Read, Jennifer D. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2024, Illustrated key to the genera and catalogue of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) in the Neotropical region, Zootaxa 5557 (1), pp. 1-263 : 58

Cosmocomoidea virlai (Triapitsyn, Logarzo & de León, 2007)

Gonatocerus virlai Triapitsyn, Logarzo & de León in Triapitsyn et al., 2007: 62; holotype ♀ (MLPA). TL: Argentina, Tucumán, Tafí Viejo. Triapitsyn et al., 2008: 5, 62 (molecular data); Luft Albarracin et al., 2009: 10 (list, distribution in Argentina); Luft Albarracin et al., 2014: 137 (list); Bruzzone et al., 2018: 115 (modelling of intra-host interspecific larval competition).

Gonatocerus (Cosmocomoidea) virlai : Triapitsyn et al., 2010: 97 (key), 229 (description, species group placement, distribution, hosts).

Cosmocomoidea virlai : Huber, 2015a: 22 (generic transfer, list); Rauber et al., 2016: 131 (abundance in organic tobacco fields, Brazil), 135 (key); Virla et al., 2019: 84 (spacial and seasonal distribution, host, Argentina); Virla et al., 2020: 905 (effect of host plant species and host egg clutch size).

Neotropical hosts. Cicadellidae : Ciminius platensis (Berg) , Dechacona missionum (Berg) , Molomea consolida Schröder , Plesiommata mollicella (Fowler) .Also laboratory and apparently unnatural hosts: Oncometopia tucumana Schröder , Tapajosa similis (Melichar) , Tretogonia notatifrons Melichar.

Distribution. Argentina. Brazil.