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Title: NOMENCLATURAL CHANGES IN THE FAMILY PTEROMALIDAE, WITH DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST NEW WORLD SPECIES OF ORMOCERUS WALKER (HYMENOPTERA, CHALCIDOIDEA)

Author
item DZHANOKMEN, K - REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
item Grissell, Edward

Submitted to: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 9/20/2002
Publication Date: N/A
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Interpretive Summary: Many insects are beneficial to agriculture because they kill other insects. Among these, the parasitic wasps in the family Pteromatidae have been especially useful at helping control crop pests. However, our ability to name these species is poor because of lack of comparisons between the Old and New World faunas. This paper correctly identifies the names of nearly three dozen species of parasitic wasps that have been used in the literature for at least one-hundred and fifty years. It also describes one new species of parasitoid that attacks a pest insect of live oak. This information will be used by insect identifiers, agricultural entomologists and ecologists to correctly name species of parasitoids.

Technical Abstract: The new species Ormocerus americanus Dzhanokmen and Grissell is described based on specimens reared from cynipid galls on oak in Texas. The following new synonymies are proposed: Abyrsomele Dzhanokmen 1975 = Halticopterina Erdös 1946; Halticopterina penthocoryne Dzhanokmen 1975 = H. moczari Erdös 1954; Homoporus longiventris Dzhanokmen 1999 = H. cupreus Erdös 1953; Phaenocytus heptapotamicus Dzhanokmen 1990 = P. glechomae (Förster 1841); Pseudocatolaccus amegallus Dzhanokmen 1989 = P. nitescens (Walker 1834); Pteromalus maculatus Dzhanokmen 1998 = P. vopiscus Walker 1839; Stenoselma haplogastra Dzhanokmen 1975 = S. nigrum Delucchi 1956; Stenoselma armeniaca Dzhanokmen and Herthevtzian 1990 = S. nigrum Delucchi 1956; Stirogenium Dzhanokmen 1985 = Paracarotomus Ashmead 1894; Stirogenium asiaticum Dzhanokmen 1985 = Paracarotomus cephalotes Ashmead 1894. The following are new combinations: Chlorocytus arkansensis (Girault) from Habrocytus Thomson; Chlorocytus languriae (Ashmead) from Habrocytus Thomson; C. rhodobaeni (Ashmead) from Habrocytus; C. simillimus (Gahan) from Habrocytus; C. vassiliefi (Ashmead) from Homoporus Thomson; Halticopterina lauta (Dzhanokmen) from Abyrsomele Dzhanokmen; Mesopolobus elymi (Dzhanokmen) from Platneptis Boucek; Neocatolaccus carinatus (Howard) from Catolaccus Thomson.