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Amphithectus opacus (Thomson)
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family:
Figitidae; Subfamily:
Figitinae; Genus:
Amphithectus)
Sarothrus opacus Thomson, 1862 [non Scytodes opacus
Hartig, 1840). Lectotype in Lund (MZLU). Type locality: ?
Amblynotus opacus (Thomson, 1862) Kieffer, 1903.
Amblynotus microcerus Kieffer, 1903 [ n. n. to Sarothrus opacus
Thomson] Synonymy by Mata-Casanova et al. 2018.
Melanips microcerus (Kieffer, 1903) Fergusson, 1986.
Setineria austriaca Tavares, 1928.
Amphithectus austriacus (Tavares, 1928) Forshage & Norlander, 2018.
Synonymy by Mata-Casanova et al. 2018.
Amphithectus coriaceous Paretas-Martinez & Pujade-Villar, 2013.
Synonymized with A. austriacus in Forshage & Norlander (2018). |
Lectotype in Lund (MZLU).
Photographs ©
Noel Mata-Casanova
(University of Barcelona).
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Specimens reared from Strobilomyia flies (Diptera:
Anthomyiidae) feeding on seed inside a coniferous tree cone. Middle
image showing mesosoma from a male specimen displaying dense,
coriaceous microsculpture (with diffused light). Bottom image
showing mesosoma of a female shiny specimen without dense
microsculpture, reared together with the coriaceous male (light not
diffused).
Photographs © Mattias Forshage (Swedish Museum of Natural History). |
Illustrations from the original description of
Seitneria austriaca in Tavares (1928). A. male, habitus. B
female, metasoma. |
Female
ovipositing between the scales of an immature spruce cone.
Photograph
© Olle Rosenberg.
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Distribution |
Palaearctic: Austria, Switzerland, Finland, France,
Germany, Sweden, China (Yunnan) (Forshage & Nordlander, 2018). |
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Biology |
Parasitoid of Strobilomyia species (Anthomyiidae). Females
oviposit in developing Larix or Picea cones
(Forshage & Nordlander, 2018). |
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References |
Forshage, M & Göran N. 2018. The identity of figitid
parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) of anthomyiid
flies in conifer cones. European Journal of Entomology
115: 104-111.
Mata-Casanova, N., Selfa, J., Pujade-Villar, J. 2018. The
true identity of Amphithectus austriacus (Tavares, 1928): junior synonym
of Amphithectus opacus (Thomson, 1862) n. comb. Butlletí de la
Institució Catalana d'Histňria Natural 82: 137-139.
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Credits
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Photographs ©
Noel Mata-Casanova
(University of Barcelona), or
Photographs © Mattias Forshage (Swedish Museum of Natural History), or
Photograph
© Olle Rosenberg.
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