Tristactus punctatus var. candidatus Konow, 1899

Taeger, Andreas, París, Mercedes & Nieves-Aldrey, Jose Luis, 2014, The type specimens of sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Zootaxa 3790 (1), pp. 103-138 : 109

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3790.1.5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5080389
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scientific name	Tristactus punctatus var. candidatus Konow, 1899
status

Treatment

A junior subjective synonym of Megalodontes judaicus ( Lepeletier, 1823) , synonymy by Taeger, 1998: 191.

Types. Tristactus punctatus var. candidatus Konow, 1899: 204 . Syntype (s) ♀, “in Asia minore prope ab Akbes urbe”. Lectotype ♀ hereby designated (MNCN_Ent 81534, MNCN Cat. Tipos Nº 8125, Fig. 09, see also http:// dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.754590). Type locality: Turkey: Hatay: Akbes GoogleMaps (36.857°N, 36.518°E; “Akbés”).

Discussion. All taxa formerly treated as species of Tristactus Konow, 1897 , are currently considered to belong to Megalodontes judaicus . The var. candidatus is a very pale form that was collected together with darker specimens. Benson (1968: 115) synonymized T. punctatus Konow, 1898 with judaicus . Without comment, Taeger (1998) listed T. punctatus var. candidatus as a synonym of judaicus .