Gonatopus guigliae
Creators: name: Olmi, Massimo
name: Copeland, Robert S.
name: Noort, Simon Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Dryinidae
Gonatopus
Gonatopus guigliae

description: 79. Gonatopus guigliae (Benoit, 1951)
(Figs 209F, G, 215A, 219E, 220A, 224A)
Digonatopus guigliae Benoit 1951a: 298.
Chalcogonatopus guigliae (Benoit): Olmi & Currado 1976: 169.
Gonatopus guigliae (Benoit): Olmi 1984: 1596; 1998c: 71; 2004a: 369; 2006: 49; Guglielmino & Olmi 2006: 47, 48; Olmi 2009b: 460; Penati & Olmi 2011: 79.; Olmi et al. 2016: 80.
Description. ♀ (Fig. 224A). Apterous; body length 4.5–6.2 mm. Head black, except mandible, clypeus and ante- rior part of frons yellow; antenna black, except scape and pedicel yellow; mesosoma black; metasoma black, with brown nuances; legs yellow, except brown spots on coxae, protrochanter, clubs of femora and outer side of protibia. Antennomeres in following proportions: 12:12:33:27:21:19:15:15:14:18. Head (Fig. 209F) excavated; frons with many longitudinal keels; POL = 3; OL = 4; OOL = 15. Palpal formula 6/3. Pronotum crossed by strong transverse impression, shiny, smooth and setose. Mesoscutum alutaceous, with two lateral pointed apophyses laterally. Metanotum transversely striate, about coplanar to mesoscutellum (Fig. 209G). Metapectal-propodeal disc shiny, smooth; propodeal declivity transversely striate. Mesopleuron and metapleuron transversely striate. Meso-metapleural suture obsolete or partly visible. Enlarged claw (Fig. 215A) with one small subapical tooth and seven peg-like setae. Protarsomere 5 (Fig. 215A) with inner side proximally serrate and two rows of 1–2 (proximal) + 23–26 lamellae; apex with approximately 16–18 lamellae. Tibial spurs 1/0/1.
♂. Fully winged; body length 2.4–2.8 mm. Head black, except mandible testaceous; antenna brown; mesosoma black; metasoma brown; legs testaceous, except femora and meso- and metatibia partly brown. Antenna filiform; antennomeres in following proportions: 4.5:5.5:8:7:6.5:6:6:5.5:6:10; antennomere 3 less than 3 × as long as broad (8:3). Head dull, swollen, completely reticulate rugose; frontal line absent; occipital carina absent; POL = 7; OL = 3; OOL = 4; vertex with two oval smooth and shiny areas situated between lateral ocelli and eyes (areas not surrounded anteriorly by high carina). Palpal formula 6/3. Mesoscutum dull, granulate. Notauli complete, posteriorly sepa- rated; minimum distance between notauli almost as long as greatest breadth of lateral ocelli (3:2.8). Mesoscutellum and metanotum shiny, punctate, unsculptured among punctures. Metapectal-propodeal disc dull, reticulate rugose. Forewing hyaline, without dark transverse bands; 2r-rs&Rs vein regularly curvilinear, with distal part longer than proximal part (16:9). Dorsal process of paramere (Figs 219E, 220A) long and slender. Tibial spurs 1/1/2.
Material examined. Types: ♀ holotype: UGANDA: Busoga Kingdom, Bussu, 1910, E. Bayon leg. (MCSNG). Paratype: same locality label as holotype, 1♀ (MRAC) (collecting data has been wrongly reported as “Bussu- 1909” in the original description of Benoit (1951a) (see Penati & Olmi 2011)). Other material: MOZAMBIQUE: Gaza Prov., along Palmeira-Macia Road, 2 Km E of Incomati River Bridge, M. Olmi reared from Cicadellid, C. 11.X.1996, B. 15.X.1996, Sf. 14.XI.1996, 1♀ (AMNH); same locality label, C. 11.X.1996, B. 15.X.1996, Sf. 18.XI.1996, 1♀ (AMNH); same locality label, C. 11.X.1996, B. 16.X.1996, Sf. 18.XI.1996, 1♂ (AMNH); same locality label, C. 11.X.1996, B. 15.X.1996, Sf. 13.XI.1996, 1♂ (AMNH); same locality label, C. 11.X.1996, B. 16.X.1996, Sf. 18.XI.1996, 1♂ (AMNH); Maputo Prov., Catembe, C. 26.XI.1999, B. 27.XI.1999, Sf. 7.I.2000, M. Olmi reared from Cicadellid, 1♂ (AMNH); Nampula Prov., Nampula, approximately 500 m from Nampula Catholic Seminary, C. 24.XI.1999, B. 28.XI.1999, Sf. 1.I.2000, reared from nymphs and adults of Exitianus zuluensis Ross, M. Olmi reared, 1♀ (MOLC); Niassa, Cuamba, campus of the Faculty of Agriculture of Catholic University of Mozambique, C. 29.V.2007, B. 5.VI.2007, Sf. 7.VII.2007, M. Olmi reared from an adult of Exitianus, 1♀ (MOLC). SOUTH AFRICA: Free State, near Bethulie, Tussen Die Riviere Reserve, 30°30’S 26°12’E, 30.III – 3.IV.1987, 1♀ (SANC); Free State, Odendaalsrus caravan park, 27°52’S 26°41’E, 28.I.1979, B. Lamoral leg., 1♀ (DJBC); KwaZulu-Natal, Manguzi Forest edge, 5.I.1988, day flight, P. Reavell leg., 1♀ (NMSA); KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Drakensberg, The Ledges Guest Farm, along the road from R74 to Cavern Berg Resort, grass in front of the farm, C. 9.IV.2007, B. 12.IV.2007, M. Olmi reared from Cicadellid, 1♀ (MOLC); KwaZulu-Natal, Winterton, along Rd 600, grass in front of the gate of Cathrin Farm, 10.IV.2007, M. Olmi reared, 1♀ (SAMC); Limpopo, 30 km W Hoedspruit, 27.XI.1978, D. Brothers & C. Jacot-Guillarmod leg., 1♀ (DJBC); Limpopo, Ellisras District, D’Nyala Nature Reserve, 23°45’S 27°49’E, 8–12.XII.1989, 1♀ (MOLC); Western Cape, near Citrusdal, The Baths, M. Olmi reared from adult of Exitianus taeniaticeps (Kirschbaum), C. 22.I.2003, B. 25.I.2003, Sf. 18.II.2003, 1♀ (MOLC); same locality label, C. 22.I.2003, B. 26.I.2003, Sf. 19.II.2003, 1♀ (MOLC); same locality label, C. 22.I.2003, B. 3.II.2003, Sf. 25.II.2003, 1♀ (MOLC); Western Cape, Cederberg Mts., Algeria, 6.II.2006, M. Olmi reared ex Exitianus taeniaticeps (Kirschbaum); 15.5 km N Viliersdorp, along Rd. 43, 13.II.2006, M. Olmi reared ex Exitianus taeniaticeps (Kirschbaum), 1♀ (MOLC).
Hosts. Cicadellidae (Guglielmino et al. 2013): in Mozambique: Exitianus zuluensis Ross; in South Africa: Exitianus natalensis Ross; Exitianus taeniaticeps (Kirschbaum).
Distribution. Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda.
description: Published as part of Olmi, Massimo, Copeland, Robert S. & Noort, Simon Van, 2019, Dryinidae of the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea), pp. 1-619 in Zootaxa 4630 (1) on pages 501-502, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4630.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3336635