Platygaster chaos Talamas, 2017

Talamas, Elijah J., Thompson, Joseph, Cutler, Amy, Schoenberger, Samantha Fitzsimmons, Cuminale, Anthony, Jung, Trenton, Johnson, Norman F., Valerio, Alejandro A., Smith, Ashton B., Haltermann, Victoria, Alvarez, Elizabeth, Schwantes, Collin, Blewer, Catherine, Bodenreider, Coline, Salzberg, Annika, Luo, Pei, Meislin, Debra & Buffington, Matthew L., 2017, An online photographic catalog of primary types of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56, pp. 187-224 : 191

Platygaster chaos Talamas n. n.

Platygaster indicus Mukerjee, 1978: 88 (original description); Mani and Sharma 1982: 212 (description); Vlug 1995: 55 (cataloged, type information); Ushakumari 2004: 590 (keyed); Buhl 2008: 552 (keyed).

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-full.html?id=11875]

Material examined.

Holotype, female, P. indicus : INDIA: Himachal Pradesh, Kullu Valley, Naggar , 18.VI.1972, Mani, USNMENT01109854 (deposited in USNM).

Replacement name.

The transfer of Sacespalus indicus Mani (1975) into Platygaster creates a homonym with Platygaster indica Mukerjee (1978). The former species name has priority and thus we provide a replacement name, " chaos ", for Platygaster indica , reflecting the present taxonomic state of Platygaster .