Yoshimotoana, Huber, 2015

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 : 104

YOSHIMOTOANA Huber, 2015

( Figs 350–356)

Yoshimotoana Huber, 2015: 61 . Type species: Gonatocerus masneri Yoshimoto, 1990 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Yoshimotoana is distinguished from the other genera of Gonatocerini by the following combination: malar sulcus absent; pronotum entire; propodeum lateral to submedian carinae covered with numerous deep pits ( Fig. 353).

Remarks. Yoshimotoana belongs to the Gonatocerus group of genera, treated elsewhere as Gonatocerini in Huber (2015a). Yoshimotoana is unique because of absence of a malar sulcus; it is placed in Gonatocerini because its fore wing structure is the same as in other genera of the tribe, with hypochaeta about midway between the proximal and distal macrochaetae ( Fig. 352).

Neotropical hosts. Unknown.

Important reference. Huber (2015a).