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Issue: Vol. 4938 No. 4: 2 Mar. 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-03-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.4.8
Page range: 497–500
Abstract views: 105
PDF downloaded: 11

Note on the heart-shaped modified basal antenna in the genus Marshiella Shaw (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae), with description of a new species

State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Fuzhou, Fujian 35002, China. Key lab of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Eduaction, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 35002, China. Institute of Biological control, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 35002, China.
State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Agricultural Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, and Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Fuzhou, Fujian 35002, China. Key lab of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Eduaction, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 35002, China. Institute of Biological control, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 35002, China.
State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Fuzhou, Fujian 35002, China. Key lab of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Eduaction, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 35002, China. Institute of Biological control, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 35002, China.
Hymenoptera Braconidae Euphorinae

Abstract

The euphorine braconid genus Marshiella is quite rare and enigmatic (Shaw and Marsh 2000). Shaw (1985) named this genus for two species previously included the genera Streblocera and Microctonus. Both species share the unusually heart-shaped modified, densely setose basal flagellomeres (as in Fig. 3) and are included in the tribe Townesilitini by Stigenberg et al. (2015) together with Townesilitus, Streblocera and Proclithrophorus, but the placement of the latter is controversial. Very little is known about the species of Marshiella, including their biology and diversity. They are presumed to be koinobiont endoparasitoids of adult Coleoptera; only one species, M. plumicornis (Ruthe) has been reared from a host, the anthicid beetle Notozus monceros L. They probably orient themselves to their hosts using chemical cues (Shaw and Marsh 2000). Their heart-shaped modified basal antenna are apparently modified for grasping the pronotal horn of their aggressive adult host during oviposition. Only nine species of Marshiella are currently known, two of them are from Oriental China (Yu et al. 2016).

 

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