Apaeleticus americanus Cushman, 1926

Dal Pos, Davide, Heilman, Victoria & Welter-Schultes, Francisco, 2022, Platylabini (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ichneumoninae) of the south-eastern United States: new distributional data, taxonomic notes, illustrated keys, and an annotated catalogue of the genera and species, Journal of Natural History 56, pp. 1869-1938 : 1881-1882

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2022.2134061

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7404690

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scientific name

Apaeleticus americanus Cushman, 1926
status

 

Apaeleticus americanus Cushman, 1926 View in CoL

( Figures 7a View Figure 7 – 8 View Figure 8 )

Apaeliticus americanus Cushman, 1926: 4 (descr.); Townes 1944: 310 (cat.); Townes and Townes 1951: 280 (distr.; cat.); Strickland 1952: 120 (distr.); Heinrich 1962b: 792 (descr., distr., neallotype designation, fig., key); Heinrich 1977: 282 (descr., distr., key); Carlson 1979: 542 (cat., distr.); Yu and Horstmann 1997: 673 (cat.); Yu et al. 2016 (cat.).

Original type series

Holotype ♀, by original designation ( USNM); paratype ♀ ( USNM). Cushman (1926, p. 4) described the species based on two female specimens, clearly referring to the one collected on 7 September 1916 as ‘the type’, providing a catalogue number for it, and the one collected on Mount Katahdin as ‘the paratype’.

Type locality

United States of America, Maryland, ‘ Cabin John ’.

Type specimens examined ( Figure 7a–7d View Figure 7 )

Holotype: ‘[White Label] Cabin John/Md 7.ix’.16 // [White Label] RM Fouts/Collector // [Red label] Type No./ 27,682 / U.S. N.M. // [White Label] Apaeleticus / americanus /Type. Cush. // [White Label] USNMENT/[Barcode]/01524100’ ( USNM) (images examined).

Updated distribution ( Figure 8 View Figure 8 )

CANADA: Alberta ( Townes and Townes 1951). UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Alabama ( Heinrich 1977), Arizona ( Carlson 1979), District of Columbia ( Carlson 1979), Florida ( Heinrich 1977), Louisiana ( Heinrich 1977), Maine ( Cushman 1926), Maryland ( Cushman 1926), Tennessee ( Heinrich 1977).

Host

Unknown.

Male

The first description of a male was provided by Heinrich (1962b, p. 792), who referred to the specimen as the neallotype.

Comments

The two records by Carlson (1979, p. 542) (Arizona and District of Columbia) were not listed in the catalogue by Yu et al. (2016).

Heinrich (1977) acknowledged the possibility that the other Nearctic species of the genus, A. brunnescens Heinrich, 1962b , is simply a subspecies of A. americanus , while treating it as separate.

Carlson RW. 1979. Family Ichneumonidae. In: Krombein KV, Hurd PD Jr., Smith DR, Burks BD, editors. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Vol 1. Washington (DC): Smithsonian Institution Press; p. 315 - 741.

Cushman RA. 1926. Ten new North American Ichneumon-flies. Proc US Natl Mus. 67 (2597): 1 - 13. doi: 10.5479 / si. 00963801.67 - 2597.1.

Heinrich G. 1962 b. Synopsis of Nearctic Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae with particular reference to the Northeastern Region (Hymenoptera). Part VI. Synopsis of the lchneumonini (Genus Plagiotrypes), Acanthojoppini, Listrodromini and Platylabini. Can Entomol. S 27: 677 - 802. doi: 10. 4039 / entm 9427 fv.

Heinrich G. 1977. Ichneumoninae of Florida and neighboring states (Hymenoptera: lchneumonidae, subfamily Ichneumoninae). Arthropods Florida Neighboring Land Areas, Florida Dept Agric Consum Serv. 9: 1 - 350.

Strickland EH. 1952. Additions to the list of Ichneumonoidea from Alberta. Can Entomol. 84 (4): 118 - 122. doi: 10.4039 / Ent 84118 - 4.

Townes HK. 1944. A catalogue and reclassification of the Nearctic Ichneumonidae. Part I. The subfamily Ichneumoninae, Tryphoninae, Crytinae, Phaeogeninae and Lissonotinae. Mem Am Entomol Soc. 11: 1 - 925.

Townes HK, Townes M. 1951. Family Ichneumonidae. In: Muesebeck CFW, Krombein KV, Townes HK, editors. Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico: Synoptic Catalog. Washington (DC): USDA; p. 1420.

Yu DSK, Horstmann K. 1997. A catalogue of world Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera). Mem Am Entomol Ins. 58: 1 - 1558.

Yu D, Van Achterberg C, Horstmann K. 2016. Taxapad 2016, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Database on flash-drive. Nepean (Canada).

Gallery Image

Figure 7. Apaeleticus americanus Cushman, 1926, holotype ♀. a) Habitus, dorsal view. b) Head, frontal view. c) Habitus, lateral view. d) Labels.Downloaded from the public USNM database (available also at http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b8484f3e-e496-4e57-a931-64842bace133).

Gallery Image

Figure 8. Apaeleticus americanus Cushman, 1926, distributional map: known records (in blue).

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

Genus

Apaeleticus