Anaphes (Patasson) nitens (Girault, 1928)

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 : 36-37

Anaphes (Patasson) nitens (Girault, 1928)

Anaphoidea nitens Girault, 1928 [420]: 262; lectotype ♀ ( NHMUK), designated by Huber & Prinsloo, 1990: 336. TL: Australia ,

Victoria, Ferntree Gully. Thompson, 1958: 569 (host). Yungaburra nitens : Ogloblin, 1939a: 143 (generic placement); Quintana, 1963: 2 (biocontrol); De Santis, 1967: 110

(catalogue). Patasson (Yungaburra) nitens : De Santis, 1979: 371 (catalogue); De Santis, 1983: 33 (catalogue, Brazil). Anaphes (Patasson) nitens : Yoshimoto, 1990: 54 (list). Anaphes nitens : Luft Albarracin et al., 2009: 6 (list, distribution and host in Argentina); Luft Albarracin et al., 2014: 136 (list);

Souza, 2016: 40 (sex ratio, percent parasitism); Barbosa et al., 2019: 308 (life cycle, biological control); Cardeño, 2019:

310 (introduction into Colombia); Silva et al., 2022: 572 (effect of bird predation); Ribeiro et al., 2023a: 184 (symbiotic bacteria); Ribeiro et al., 2023b: 1 (presence in Minas Gerais, Brazil); Salazar-Basurto et al., 2023: 6 ( Ecuador). Anaphes (Anaphes) nitens : Huber & Thuróczy, 2018: 28 (list), 45 (key). Anaphoidea gonipteri Ferrière, 1930: 38 ; lectotype ♀ (NHMUK), designated by Huber & Prinsloo, 1990: 336. TL: South

Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria (from material originating in Australia). Synonymy by Girault, 1930 [433]: 276. Marelli, 1930a: 21 (importation from South Africa into Argentina, laboratory rearing); Marelli, 1930b: 8 (second generation laboratory rearing); Marelli, 1930c: 8 (third generation laboratory rearing).

Neotropical hosts. Curculionidae : Gonipterus gibberus Boisduval , G. suturalis Gyllenhal (Mossop 1929) ; G. platensis ? Gonipterus is a complex of species so those parasitized by Anaphes are uncertain.

Distribution. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia?, Ecuador, Uruguay.