Boccacciomymar (Prosto) victoria, comb. n.
Creators: name: TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V.
name: BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mymaridae
Boccacciomymar
Boccacciomymar victoria

description: <i>Boccacciomymar (Prosto) victoria</i> (Girault 1938), comb. n. (Figs 98 –103) <i>Polynema victoria</i> Girault 1938: 392; New 1976: 19, 58, 59 (illustrations). Type locality: Canterbury, Victoria, Australia. Type material examined Holotype female (on slide, QMBA), labeled: 1. " HYMENOPTERA Fam. 25 Mymaridae <i>Polynema</i> female Fairy fly 144"; 2. " <i>Polynema</i> female <i>victoria</i> Girault, Type"; 3. "39". The holotype is in a relatively good condition, which permitted easy identification of more recently collected conspecific specimens from other Australian states. Additional material examined AUSTRALIA: Australian Capital Territory: Black Mt., CSIRO, 35°16'S, 149°06'E, G.A.P. Gibson: 26.IV–2.V.1999 [3 females, CNCI]; 16–31.V.1999 [1 male, CNCI]. Canberra Nature Park, Black Mt., Aranda Bushland, 35°15.89'S, 149°05.08'E, 27–28.XI.2002, J. George, J. Munro, A. Owen [1 male, UCRC]. Western Australia: Lake Muir area (SW of lake), 34°29.8'S, 116°38.0'E, 180 m, 18.XI.2002, J. Pinto, G. Platner [1 female, 2 males, UCRC]. 2 km SSW of Pithara, 30°24'S, 116°40'E, 26.IX.1981, I.D. Naumann, J.C. Cardale [1 female, ANIC]. Redescription FEMALE. Body and appendages mostly dark brown (gaster a little lighter than head and mesosoma) but scape, pedicel, F1 and most of leg segments (except distal tarsomeres) brown; scape with weak cross-ridges, longer than pedicel or any funicle segment (Fig. 98); F1 longer than pedicel and subequal in length to F5, F6, and sometimes to F3, F2 the longest funicle segment, F3 (usually) and F4 slightly shorter than F1; longitudinal sensilla only on F5 (1) and F6 (1), clava about as long as combined length of F5 and F6, with 8 longitudinal sensilla; scutellum with row of frenal foveae; mesonotum mostly with reticulate sculpture (Fig. 99); forewing (Fig. 100) 4.3–4.4 x as long as wide, with about 4 rows of setae behind marginal vein; longest marginal cilia 3/4–4/5 greatest forewing width; hind wing (Fig. 101) about 18 x as long as wide; petiole (Fig. 102) longer than wide; ovipositor 4/5–9/10 length of gaster, not or barely exserted beyond gastral apex (Fig. 102); ovipositor length: metatibia length 1.0–1.2:1. Description MALE. Similar to female except for the normal sexually dimorphic features, such as antenna and genitalia (Fig. 103). Distribution Australia.
description: Published as part of <i>TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V. &amp; 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), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 1455 (1)</i> on pages 54-55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1455.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5077726
description: {"references": ["Girault, A. A. [as Girauld, A. A.] (1938) New Trichogrammatidae and Mymaridae from Australia (Hym.). Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro), 9 (3 - 4), 382 - 396.", "New, T. R. (1976) The Australian species of Polynema Haliday, s. l., (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) described by A. A. Girault. Australian Journal of Zoology, supplementary series, 42, 1 - 65."]}