Eurytoma cearae Ashmead, 1908

Tavares, Marcelo T., Perioto, Nelson W., Lara, Rogéria I. R., Wengrat, Ana P. G. S., Shimbori, Eduardo M. & Fernandes, Daniell R. R., 2024, On the unavailability of species and genera names of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Ichneumonoidea, Platygastroidea) attributed to William H. Ashmead, Zoologia (e 23105) 41, pp. 1-6 : 2-3

Eurytoma cearae Ashmead, 1908 nomen nudum

Euritoma cearae Ashmead, 1908 (in Rocha 1908: 70, nomen nudum, misspelling). Rocha (1918: 21 nomen nudum, checklist).

Eurytoma cearae Ashmead, 1908 : Rocha (1950: 292, checklist, biology); Silva (1973: 109, checklist, biology).

Remarks. Rocha (1908) misspelled the generic epithet Eurytoma as Euritoma . Rocha (1950) cited E. cearae as “ parasites of larvae of galls of Myrtaceae ” (translated from p. 292). Silva (1973) cited“ parasites of cecidomyiid larvae of myrtaceae [sic.]” (translated from p. 292), probably reproducing Rocha’s (1950) report. This species is likely Rileya cearae ( Crawford, 1910) described on twelve specimens collected by F. D. da Rocha in Ceará, Brazil. According to the original description, these specimens were “bred from galls of Mayrellus mirabilis ”, also described based on specimens collected by F. D. da Rocha in Ceara, Brazil. Crawford (1910) wrote M. mirabilis specimens was “ bred from galls of unknow plant ”. Mayrellus mirabilis belongs to Melanosomellidae (formely Ormocerinae : Pteromalidae ) and, based on information available, it is impossible to associate this species with that cited by Rocha (1908, 1918, 1950).

Pteromalidae

Pteromalinae