Polymoria curculionis Risbec, 1951

Fusu, Lucian, Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, Siebold, Cedric & Villemant, Claire, 2015, Revision of the Eupelmidae Walker, 1833 described by Jean Risbec. Part 1: the slide mounted specimens housed at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, Zoosystema 37 (3), pp. 457-480 : 477

Polymoria curculionis Risbec, 1951

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Polymoria curculionis Risbec, 1951a: 245-247 . Original description, ♀ ♂, Senegal, Bambey ; 1960a: 628 (catalogued). — Hedqvist 1970: 441 (catalogued).

Calosota curculionis – Bouček 1976b (change of combination). — Gibson 1989: 63 (catalogued).

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Calosota curculionis (Risbec, 1951) .

TYPE MATERIAL. — General collection. Lectotype ♀ (here designated): “ Sénégal, Bambey/ X 1918 [probably X.48 from slide MNHN.14.74]; Muséum Paris; Polymoria curculionis / Risbec.; Letotype [red label]”. Nine ♀ paralectotypes: same labels except labeled with Paralectotype (red label) .

MNHN.14.69. One ♀ paralectotype, dry mounted with the head detached, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “18.7.46 Bambey/ Polymoria / curculionis Risbec ”.

MNHN.14.70. One ♂ paralectotype, dry mounted, in good condition, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Polymoria / curculionis / Risbec/ ex Cryptobathis / setarius ”.

MNHN.14.71. One ♀ paralectotype, dry mounted in a wooden slide, in good condition, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Polymoria / curculionis / Risbec; Tanaostigmodes / ( Eupelmidae )” .

MNHN.14.72. One ♀ paralectotype, dry mounted in a wooden slide, in good condition, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “IX.76/ Polymoria / curculionis / Risbec; Eutrichosoma [crossed off]/ ex Cryptobathis / setarius ” .

MNHN.14.73. One ♀ paralectotype, balsam mounted in a wooden slide, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Brasema [crossed off]/ 13VIII.49/ Polymoria / curculionis / Risbec”.

MNHN.14.74. Slide missing, 10 females point-mounted by David Brévière on 09/10/06. According to a personal communication by G. Gibson who examined the slide in 1991 it was originally labeled: “ Polymoria curculionis Risbec ; Tanaostigmodes X.18 [48?]” .

NON TYPE MATERIAL. — ORSTOM.2.56: Two ♀, dry mounted under one coverslip on a wooden slide, in good condition, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “(Eup. Tan)/ ex Camptor -/ rhinus / VIII.63.; Polymoria / curculionis / Risbec” .

REMARKS

This species was described from 17 females and one male. Specimens on slide ORSTOM.2.56 are not from the type series as they were collected subsequently and from a different host. On slide MNHN.14.74 there were originally 12 specimens (G. Gibson, pers. comm.), but only ten of them were found remounted. One female from this slide was selected as lectotype. It is entire and was labeled accordingly. Bouček (1976b) transferred the species to Calosota .

Figures

FIG. 1. — A, slide MNHN.14.27, dry mounted specimens with coverslip sealed with wax, Anastatus gratidiae Risbec, 1951, lectotype and paralectotype; B, slide ORSTOM.2.2, dry mounted specimen with coverslip sealed with paraffin wax, Paravignalia hemipterae Risbec, 1951, lectotype; C, slide ORSTOM.2.24, dry mounted specimen with coverslip sealed with Canada balsam, Bruchocida batataephila Risbec, 1951, paralectotype; D, slide MNHN.14.71, dry mounted specimen on a wooden strip with coverslip sealed with wax, Polymoria curculionis Risbec, 1951, paralectotype; E, MNHN.14.18, dry mounted specimens in a cardboard slide, Mesocomys sp.; F, label in Risbec’s handwriting, BMNH collections, Eupelmus psychephagus Risbec, 1951; G, slide MNHN.1.74, dry mounted antenna, Eusandalum striatum Risbec, 1952, holotype; H, labels of the paralectotype of Calosoter versicolor Risbec, 1951, BMNH collection (Photo Natalie Dale-Skey Papilloud).