A semantically enriched taxonomic revision of Gryonoides Dodd, 1920 (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), with a review of the hosts of Teleasinae

Abstract

Teleasinae are commonly collected scelionids that are the only known egg parasitoids of carabid beetles and therefore play a crucial role in shaping carabid populations in natural and agricultural ecosystems. We review the available host information of Teleasinae, report a new host record, and revise Gryonoides Dodd, 1920, a morphologically distinct teleasine genus. We review the generic concept of Gryonoides and provide diagnoses and descriptions of thirteen Gryonoides species and two varieties: G. glabriceps Dodd, 1920, G. pulchellus Dodd, 1920 (= G. doddi Ogloblin, 1967, syn. nov. and G. pulchricornis Ogloblin, 1967, syn. nov.), G. brasiliensis Masner & Mikó, sp. nov., G. flaviclavus Masner & Mikó, sp. nov., G. fuscoclavatus Masner & Mikó, sp. nov., G. garciai Masner & Mikó, sp. nov., G. mexicali Masner & Mikó, sp. nov., G. mirabilicornis Masner & Mikó, sp. nov., G. obtusus Masner & Mikó, sp. nov., G. paraguayensis Masner & Mikó, sp. nov., G. rugosus Masner & Mikó, sp. nov., G. uruguayensis Masner & Mikó, sp. nov. We treat Gryonoides scutellaris Dodd, 1920, as status uncertain. Gryonoides mirabilicornis Masner & Mikó, sp. nov. is the only known teleasine with tyloids on two consecutive flagellomeres, a well-known trait of Sparasionidae. An illustrated identification key to species of Gryonoides, a queryable semantic representation of species descriptions using PhenoScript, and a simple approach for making Darwin Core Archive files in taxonomic revisions accessible are provided.

Computable species descriptions and nanopublications: applying ontology-based technologies to dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeinae)

“…The exploration of ontology-based technologies in our study highlights their significant potential for modelling computable phenotypes and species descriptions, effectively integrating taxonomy into the domain of phenomics ( Deans et al 2012 , Deans et al 2015 , Edmunds et al 2015 , Mikó et al 2021 ). This integration not only advances the field of taxonomy, but also enhances the interoperability of phenotypic data across various biological disciplines.…”

“…Phenoscript and Phenospy, still in development, are assessed in this study for their practicality and effectiveness in managing phenotypic data. This is the second paper in the series that tests Phenoscript ( Mikó et al 2021 ). We demonstrate that, with the proposed approach, scientists can bypass the need to write NL-based species descriptions entirely.…”

ontophylo: Reconstructing the evolutionary dynamics of phenomes using new ontology-informed phylogenetic methods

“…We envision that ontophylo can be integrated with other packages such as ontoFAST (Tarasov et al, 2022), ontobayes (Porto et al, 2022), rphenoscape (https://github.com/phenoscape/rphenoscape), and rphenoscate (Porto et al, 2023) as part of a growing ecosystem of R packages integrating ontologies and phylogenetics. There are already tools available for image segmentation (Lösel et al, 2020;Schwartz and Alfaro, 2021), annotating phylogenetic characters (Balhoff et al, 2010(Balhoff et al, , 2014, and writing semantic descriptions (Balhoff et al, 2013;Mikó et al, 2021). By integrating semantic data, ontologies, and phylogenetics, new opportunities are rapidly emerging to investigate questions about organismal anatomy at an unprecedented scale taking advantage of the fields of computer vision, deep learning, and robotics applied to taxonomy, ecology, and evolution (Lürig et al, 2021;Borowiec et al, 2022;Wührl et al, 2022).…”

Record of bees and wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera) during the dry season in a floodplain in the South Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

“…Idem previous labels, except white pan trap, 1 specimen (PS108/INPA). Mikó et al (2021), G. pulchellus is most similar to Gryonoides paraguayensis Masner & Mikó, 2021 mainly by having the glabrous medial area of lateral propodeal area and dorsal metapleural area; the long posterior propodeal projection, and the dorsally closed torular triangle. But differs from this species in the glabrous tergite III.…”