Title
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 StaĚŠl; apparently the genus Ranatra Fabricius is not a host"--P. [1].
Subjects
Classification
,
Parasites
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parasitoids
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Thoron
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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
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