Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, California, 92521, USA..
Zootaxa. 2021 Apr 30;4966(1):97100. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4966.1.11.
Girault (1917) very briefly described and diagnosed the encyrtid wasp species Ooencyrtus californicus Girault (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with the following limited data (p. 22): "Sacramento, California, from bug eggs on Pinus sabiniana, September". The first author examined its two syntypes, poorly mounted on a slide, of which only parts of the four antennae and a slightly damaged fore wing remain (Triapitsyn et al. 2020). They concluded that this species was better considered a nomen dubium until fresh specimens could be collected from the same host plant in or near the type locality. In July 2019, an effort was made to re-collect O. californicus from foothill (or gray) pine, Pinus sabiniana (Pinaceae), in the Oakhurst area of Madera County, California, USA, where this pine is abundant, but no specimens were captured. At the same time, a very similar insect was collected from sentinel eggs of the invasive stink bug Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister) in Riverside, California. This insect was cultured in the laboratory as part of a B. hilaris biological control program. Due to the poor preservation of the type specimens and in the absence of genetic evidence, it was impossible to positively and properly attribute specimens of this newly collected parasitoid to O. californicus. Therefore, to provide a much needed scientific name for this native egg parasitoid, it was described as Ooencyrtus lucidus Triapitsyn Ganjisaffar in Triapitsyn et al. (2020). The two nominal species were separated based on minor differences in the proportions of the scape, pedicel, and first funicular segment of the female antenna (Triapitsyn et al. 2020). John S. Noyes, world expert on Encyrtidae and one of the reviewers of Triapitsyn et al. (2020), disagreed with the erection of O. lucidus as a new taxon based on the morphological similarities of the female antenna with that of O. californicus, so the description was published with the understanding that the two might be conspecific. But to settle this one way or another new specimens of O. californicus had to be collected to allow morphological and molecular analyses.
Girault（1917）非常简要地描述并诊断了姬小蜂科的 Ooencyrtus californicus Girault（膜翅目：姬小蜂科），仅提供了以下有限的数据（第 22 页）：“加利福尼亚州萨克拉门托，从 Pinus sabiniana 上的昆虫卵中分离，9 月”。第一作者检查了其两个模式标本，这些标本很差地安装在一个载玻片上，仅保留了四个触角的部分和略微损坏的前翅（Triapitsyn 等人，2020 年）。他们得出的结论是，在能够从同一宿主植物或类型地点附近采集到新鲜标本之前，该物种最好被视为一个可疑名称。2019 年 7 月，在美国加利福尼亚州默塞德县奥克赫斯特地区，人们努力从灰松（Pinus sabiniana，松科）中重新采集加利福尼亚姬小蜂 O. californicus，因为那里这种松树很丰富，但没有捕获到标本。与此同时，在加利福尼亚州河滨市，从入侵性臭虫 Bagrada hilaris（Burmeister）的哨兵卵中收集到了一种非常相似的昆虫。这种昆虫在实验室中作为 B. hilaris 生物控制计划的一部分进行了培养。由于模式标本保存不佳且缺乏遗传证据，因此无法将新采集的寄生蜂标本正确地归因于 O. californicus。因此，为了为本土卵寄生蜂提供一个急需的学名，将其描述为 Ooencyrtus lucidus Triapitsyn Ganjisaffar（Triapitsyn 等人，2020 年）。根据雌性触角的柄节、梗节和第一节鞭节的比例的细微差异，将这两个命名种分开（Triapitsyn 等人，2020 年）。世界上的 Encyrtidae 专家 John S. Noyes 也是 Triapitsyn 等人（2020 年）的评论者之一，他不同意基于雌性触角与 O. californicus 的形态相似性而将 O. lucidus 提升为一个新分类群，因此该描述的发表是基于这样一种理解，即这两个可能是同一种。但为了确定这一点，必须收集加利福尼亚姬小蜂的新标本，以便进行形态和分子分析。
