Gollumiella darlingi

Gollumiella darlingi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Eucharitidae
Subfamily:	Gollumiellinae
Genus:	Gollumiella
Species:	G. darlingi
Binomial name
Gollumiella darlingi Heraty, 2004

Identification

This species keys to G. longipetiolata in Heraty (1992), from which it can be differentiated by the short antennal flagellum (0.7 – 0.82 X height of head) and scape (0.7 – 0.81 X distance to top of median ocellus), and whitish yellow mid and hind coxae. The short scape and evenly brown petiole distinguishes this species from G. buffingtoni.

Distribution

Indonesia

Nomenclature

Etymology. Named after one of the collectors, Chris Darling

References

• Baker AJ, Heraty JM. The New World ant parasitoid genus Orasema (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae). Zootaxa. 2020 Nov 30;4888(1):zootaxa.4888.1.1. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4888.1.1. PMID: 33311254.

• Baker, A.J., Heraty, J.M., Mottern, J., Hang, J.Z., Hines, H.M., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M. 2019. Inverse dispersal patterns in a group of ant parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae: Oraseminae) and their ant hosts. Systematic Entomology 45: 1–19 (doi:10.1111/syen.12371).

• Carey, B., Visscher, K., & Heraty, J. (2012). Nectary use for gaining access to an ant host by the parasitoid Orasema simulatrix (Hymenoptera, Eucharitidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 27: 47-65.

• Gahan, A.B. (1940). A contribution to the knowledge of the Eucharidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 88: 425-458.

• Heraty, J., Hawks, D., Kostecki, J.S. and Carmichael, A. (2004). Phylogeny and behaviour of the Gollumiellinae, a new subfamily of the ant-parasitic Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Systematic Entomology 29(4): 544-559.

• Munro, J. B., Heraty, J. M., Burks, R. A., Hawks, D., Mottern, J., Cruaud, A., Rasplus, J.-Y. & Jansta, P. (2011). A molecular phylogeny of the Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). PLoS One 6(11): e27023.

• Murray, E. A., Carmichael, A. E., & Heraty, J. M. (2013). Ancient host shifts followed by host conservatism in a group of ant parasitoids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280(1759): 20130495.

• Wheeler WM (1907) The polymorphism of ants with an account of some singular abnormalities due to parasitism. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23: 1–93.