The genus Thoron Haliday (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), egg-parasitoids of waterscorpions (Hemiptera, Nepidae), with key to world species

Title Variants

Alternative: Revision of Thoron

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3452

By

Johnson, Norman F.

Masner, Lubomir

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2004

Notes

Title from caption.

"August 23, 2004."

"The world fauna of the genus Thoron is revised. The genus is described and Neothoron Masner is treated as a junior synonym (new synonymy). Relationships with Elgonia Risbec and other Scelionidae are discussed and a key to world species is presented. Six new species are described: T. dayi, new species (Indonesia), T. dux, new species (Bolivia, Venezuela), T. garciai, new species (Venezuela, Bolivia), T. rex, new species (Bolivia), Thoron rivalis, new species (Brazil, Panama), and T. spinifer, new species (Ecuador). Thoron metallicus Haliday (Holarctic), T. longicornis Masner and Huggert (USA), and T. lautus (Masner), new combination (Ecuador, Bolivia) are redescribed; the female of T. lautus and the male of T. longicornis are described and keyed for the first time. Thoron gibbus Ruthe is treated as a junior synonym of T. metallicus (new synonymy). Species of Thoron are only known to parasitize the eggs of Nepidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with rearings from Nepa Linnaeus and association with Curicta Stål; apparently the genus Ranatra Fabricius is not a host"--P. [1].

Subjects

Classification , Parasites , parasitoids , Thoron , Water scorpions

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3452, 2004

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2004)452<0001:TGTHHS>2.0.CO;2
OCLC: 56429171