Caenoteleia Kieffer

Masner, Lubomír, Johnson, Norman F. & Musetti, Luciana, 2009, Calliscelio elegans (Perkins), a tramp species, and a review of the status of the genus Caenoteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae), Zootaxa 2237, pp. 59-66 : 60-61

Caenoteleia Kieffer

Caenoteleia Kieffer, 1926: 266 , 550. Original description. Type: Caloteleia elegans Perkins , by monotypy. Keyed. Muesebeck & Walkley (1956): citation of type species; Johnson (1992): catalog of world species.

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There is no indication that Kieffer ever saw any specimens of Caloteleia elegans , and the original description of the species included no illustrations. The decision to erect a new genus seems to have been influenced by the comment of Perkins that the species was remarkable for the petiolate wings. In fact, the wings ( Fig. 4 ), while narrow, are not stalked in the same sense that one finds in families such as the Myrmaridae. The wings of C. elegans are not extraordinary in any sense in comparison to those of most other platygastroids. This species is nothing more than a distinctively colored and sculptured species of the cosmopolitan genus Calliscelio , exactly as suggested by Masner (1976). Thus, after having examined the Perkins material, we feel confident in proposing that Caenoteleia is a junior synonym of Calliscelio , new synonymy.

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FIGURES 1 – 5. Calliscelio elegans (Perkins), female. 1, Lateral habitus (OSUC 215759); 2, Head and mesosoma, lateral view (OSUC 215759); 3, Head, anterior view (OSUC 215759); 4, Dorsal habitus (OSUC 256897); 5, Head and mesosoma, dorsal view (OSUC 256897). Fig. 6, Head and mesosoma, Calliscelio laticinctus Ashmead, holotype female, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters.