Review of the genus Anaphes Haliday, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in Russia, part 1: subgenus Anaphes s. str.

S.V Triapitsyn

doi:10.25221/fee.432.1

Abstract

Species of the nominotypical subgenus of Anaphes Haliday, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in Russia are reviewed. A key to females of the 18 Palaearctic species of the subgenus is given. Ten species are newly recorded from Russia (two of them based on tentative identifications), and new records of the extralimital specimens examined are also provided. Three new species are described from the eastern Palaearctic region: Anaphes (Anaphes) csabai sp. n. (Kuril Islands), Anaphes (Anaphes) maxim sp. n. (Primorskii krai and Sakhalin Island), and Anaphes (Anaphes) rfe sp. n. (Primorskii krai and Beijing, China). Several historical records of some species of Anaphes in Russia are critically analyzed in the unfortunal absence of most voucher specimens, having in mind that some of them were likely misiden¬tified.

Highlights

Species of the fairyfly genus Anaphes Haliday, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in Russia have been awaiting a thorough review for more than a century, since Rimsky-Korsakov (1917) first mentioned an unidentified Anaphes sp. from the country
That was impossible to do because taxonomy of the genus in the Palaearctic region had been in total disarray until recently, when Huber & Thuróczy (2018) reviewed and keyed its European species and classified them in two subgnera
Triapitsyn & Tselikh (2019) omitted Fursov’s (1995) record of A. (Patasson) longicornis from their list of the Anaphes species known from Russia

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Species of the fairyfly genus Anaphes Haliday, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in Russia have been awaiting a thorough review for more than a century, since Rimsky-Korsakov (1917) first mentioned an unidentified Anaphes sp. from the country. (Patasson) longicornis from their list of the Anaphes species known from Russia These records need confirmation in light of the recent changes in the taxonomy of Anaphes by Huber & Thuróczy (2018). Brief diagnoses [since the review by Huber & Thuróczy (2018) does not provide any, which makes positive identifications of the European species often challenging], detailed illustrations, verified distributions, and more or less reliable host associations are given for all the taxa included in this review. A key to the Palaearctic species of Anaphes (for females only) is derived from that of the European ones in Huber & Thuróczy (2018), with additions of the newly described and recorded species and some modifications that reflect the gained knowledge of the intraspecific variation in some of the taxa. The male, which was slidemounted, is an Anagrus (Anagrus) sp. from the incarnatus species group; it definitely belongs to some other species because it has a pair of adnotaular setae on the midlobe of the mesoscutum which are absent in A. (Anagrus) incarnatus

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Key to females of the Palaearctic species of the subgenus Anaphes