Ooctonini

Female Gonatocerus triguttatus, photographed by Reyes Garcia III.

Belongs within: Mymaridae.

The Ooctonini are a subgroup of the Mymaridae (fairy flies) characterised by a basally rounded gaster and five-segmented tarsi (Girault 1929).

Characters (from Girault 1929): Tarsi five-segmented; transverse sclerite present between scutum and scutellum; abdomen convexly rounded at base, phragma absent; ovipositor free.

<==Ooctonini
    |--Macrocamptoptera Girault 1910 G29, GM79
    |    `--M. metotarsa Girault 1905 GM79
    |--Eomymar Perkins 1912 G29, GM79
    |    `--E. camptopteroides Girault 1916 GM79
    |--Boudiennyia Girault 1937 G37
    |    `--*B. saintpierrei Girault 1937 G37
    |--Camptoptera Foerster 1856 G29, GM79
    |    |--C. immensa Girault 1933 G33
    |    `--C. pulla Girault 1909 GM79
    |--Ooctonus Haliday 1833 G29, GM79 [incl. Cosmocomoidea Howard 1908 G29, GM79]
    |    |--O. americanus Girault 1916 GM79
    |    |--O. angustiventris G30
    |    |--O. citriscapus Girault 1930 G30
    |    |--O. flavipes Girault & Dodd 1915 GM79
    |    |--O. ignipes Girault 1930 G30
    |    |--O. iona Girault 1930 G30
    |    |--O. morrilli (Howard 1908) GM79
    |    |--O. quadricarinatus Girault 1916 GM79
    |    `--O. silvensis Girault 1916 GM79
    `--Gonatocerus Nees 1834 G29, GM79 [=Conatocerus (l. c.) G36b]
         |--G. americanus Brues 1907 GM79
         |--G. anthonomi Girault 1905 GM79 [incl. G. texanus Girault 1911 G29, GM79]
         |--G. ashmeadi Girault 1916 GM79
         |--G. aureus Girault 1911 GM79
         |--G. brunneus Girault 1911 GM79 [incl. G. maevius Girault 1911 G29, GM79]
         |--G. californicus Girault 1911 GM79
         |--G. dies Girault 1913 GM79
         |--G. dolichocerus Ashmead 1887 GM79
         |--G. elizabethae Girault 1925 G25
         |--G. ella Girault 1931 G31
         |--G. fasciatus Girault 1911 GM79
         |--G. gregi Girault 1915 GM79
         |--G. grotiusi Girault 1913 GM79
         |--G. illinoisensis Girault 1917 GM79
         |--G. juvator Perkins 1912 GM79
         |--G. kochi Girault 1936 [=Conatocerus (l. c.) kochi] G36a
         |--G. koebelei Perkins 1912 GM79
         |--G. latipennis Girault 1911 GM79
         |--G. maga Girault 1911 GM79
         |--G. marilandicus Girault 1917 GM79
         |--G. maximus Girault 1911 GM79
         |--G. mexicanus Perkins 1912 GM79 [incl. G. eximius Gahan 1913 G29, GM79, G. gibsoni Crawford 1915 G29, GM79]
         |--G. nigritarsis Ashmead 1887 GM79
         |--G. novifasciatus Girault 1911 GM79
         |--G. nox Girault 1913 GM79
         |--G. nuntius G30
         |--G. ovicenatus Leonard & Crosby 1915 GM79
         |--G. partifuscipennis Girault 1916 GM79
         |--G. pygmaeus Girault 1911 GM79
         |--G. renani Girault 1913 GM79
         |--G. rivalis Girault 1911 GM79
         |--G. romae Girault 1928 G28
         |--G. tenuipennis Girault 1911 GM79
         |--G. titillatus Girault 1917 GM79
         |--G. triguttatus Girault 1916 GM79
         |    |--G. t. triguttatus G17
         |    `--G. t. atriclavus Girault 1917 G17
         `--G. utahensis Girault 1917 GM79

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[G17] Girault, A. A. 1917. Descriptiones stellarum novarum. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 80-101).

[G25] Girault, A. A. 1925. Some gem-like or marvellous inhabitants of the woodlands heretofore unknown and by most never seen or dreamt of. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 191-193).

[G28] Girault, A. A. 1928. A prodigeous discourse on wild animals. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 218-220).

[G29] Girault, A. A. 1929. North American Hymenoptera Mymaridae. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 233-261).

[G30] Girault, A. A. 1930. New pests from Australia. VIII. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 273-277).

[G31] Girault, A. A. 1931. A new habit in an old insect, Homo pudicus and new Eurytomidae. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 280-283).

[G33] Girault, A. A. 1933. Some beauties inhabitant not of commercial boudoirs but of Nature’s bosom, notably new insects. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 299-303).

[G35] Girault, A. A. 1935. Microhymenoptera Australiensis nova, mostly Chalcididae. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 315-318).

[G36a] Girault, A. A. (as ‘L. de St. Fargeau’). 1936a. Chalcididae, Capsidae species nova Australiensis Giraulti. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 319-321).

[G36b] Girault, A. A. 1936b. Terror-errors; and novitates of Pterygota (or earth realities not state-bound). Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 322-325).

[G37] Girault, A. A. 1937. New naturals, unorthodoxies and non-pollutions, viz. new hexapods. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 326-328).

[GM79] Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 1-400.