V. A. TRJAPITZIN. REVIEW OF ENCYRTID WASPS OF THE GENUS ANICETUS HOWARD, 1896 (HYMENOPTERA, CHALCIDOIDEA, ENCYRTIDAE) OF THE NEW WORLD, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND AUSTRALIA WITH DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES FROM MEXICO

摘要

The review contains a characteristic (with diagnosis) of the genus Anicetus Howard, 1896, a key to females of 12 species known from the New World, Hawaiian Islands and Australia, and a synopsis of species with data on their distribution, hosts, biology, ecesis and use in biological control of injurious coccids. Two new species are described from Mexico: Anicetus myartsevae sp. n. and A. villarreali sp. n. Anicetus carolinensis J. Meyer, 2001 from the USA is excluded from the genus and transferred to Homosemion Annecke, 1967. A new combination is arranged: Anicetus argentinus (Fidalgo, 1979), comb. n., from Paraceraptrocerus Girault, 1920 which is a synonym of Anicetus. The paper is based on the author's work in the insect depositories of the USA (Washington, San Francisco, and Riverside), Mexico (Ciudad Victoria) and Russia (St. Petersburg). Anicetus myartsevae sp. n. is compared with the Mexican A. primus (Howard, 1898), from which it differs in the antennal scape dorsally half as long as at base (as long as in A. primus), legs more or less extensively dark (mainly yellow in A. primus), and face with dark transverse stripe (without stripe in A. primus). Anicetus villarrieli sp. n. is a short-winged species.