Identifying the species of Mymaridae reared in Argentina and Mexico for potential introduction to California against the glassy-winged sharpshooter and preparing and submitting for publication a pictorial annotated key to the ater-group species of Gonatoc

TRIAPITSYN, S.; LOGARZO, G.; DE LEÓN, J.; HUBER, J.; VIRLA, EDUARDO G.

San Diego, California USA

Simposio; 2007 Pierce’s Disease Research Symposium; 2007

California departent of food & agriculture

At least twenty species of the genus Gonatocerus Nees (Mymaridae) were reared and recognized in Argentina and Mexico from eggs of the proconiine sharpshooters (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae: Proconiini) in the course of the classical and neoclassical biological control projects against the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis (Germar) (GWSS), in California. During the reporting period, they were identified taxonomically and three of them were described as new species (two from Argentina and one from Mexico). Work is under way to prepare a pictorial, annotated key to more than 60 Neotropical species of the ater group of Gonatocerus. Results obtained during the last six months of the first year and the first three months of the second year of this two-year project are being reported. Gonatocerus Nees (Mymaridae) were reared and recognized in Argentina and Mexico from eggs of the proconiine sharpshooters (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae: Proconiini) in the course of the classical and neoclassical biological control projects against the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis (Germar) (GWSS), in California. During the reporting period, they were identified taxonomically and three of them were described as new species (two from Argentina and one from Mexico). Work is under way to prepare a pictorial, annotated key to more than 60 Neotropical species of the ater group of Gonatocerus. Results obtained during the last six months of the first year and the first three months of the second year of this two-year project are being reported.