Ophion pennator Fabricius, 1804

Sarmiento, Carlos E., M & Sharkey, Michael, 2005, On the status of some species of Braconidae (Hymenoptera) described by J. C. Fabricius and the synonymy of Dichelosus Szépligeti with Coccygidium De Saussure, Zootaxa 1067, pp. 59-68 : 65

374. Ophion pennator Fabricius, 1804

Fabricius (pg. 135) cited America meridionali as the type locality. Townes (1961) identified it as an Agathidinae. Thunberg (1824: 314) synonymized Ichneumon pellator Thunberg, 1822 with O. pennator . Zimsen (1964) stated that the type series is composed of two specimens both deposited in the Copenhagen collection (ZMUC). Shenefelt (1970) cited this species as an unplaced Agathidinae. Horstmann (2001) indicated that this is a braconid without giving further information. One specimen is a female ( Fig. 9 ) with a red label “ Type ”, and a second label with the text O. pennator , am: meridionalis ( Fig. 10 ). The second specimen, labeled “ type ”, is a male of Hadrodactylus sp. ( Ichneumonidae ). This specimen has a second label Hadrodactylus Tow. 58, and it was identified by Henry Townes. We designate here the female as the lectotype of Ophion pennator and we attached a label with the following data: LECTOTYPE Ophion pennator Fabricius, 1804 , Designated by Sarmiento, C. 2004. This species exhibits all the characters of Coccygidium , thus, we transfer it to this genus.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. 1, Lectotype of Coccygidium hospitator. 2. Label attached to the C. hospitator lectotype. 3. Lectotype of Hemibracon similator. 4. Label attached to the H. similator lectotype. 5. Lectotype of Ichneumon ornator. 6. Label attached to the I. ornator lectotype. 7. Lectotype of Coccygidium anator. 8. Label attached to the C. anator lectotype. 9. Lectotype of Coccygidium pennator. 10. Label attached to the C. pennator lectotype. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.