Charitopus curvistylus 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 : 470

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2015n3a3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5157091
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scientific name	Charitopus curvistylus Risbec, 1951
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Treatment

Charitopus curvistylus Risbec, 1951a: 220-222 . Original description, ♀, Senegal, Bambey. — Hedqvist 1970: 434 (catalogued).

Eupelmus curvistylus View in CoL – Bouček 1976b: 352 (change of combination). — Prinsloo 1979: 22.

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Eupelmus (Episolindelia) curvistylus (Risbec, 1951) View in CoL n. stat. [new subgeneric status].

TYPE MATERIAL. — MNHN.14.53. Seven ♀ syntypes, all dry mounted under the same coverslip, in good condition, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “II.25. Bambey/ Charitolophus ?/ curvistylus Risbec ”.

REMARKS

On the label the generic name is Charitolophus with a question mark, but in the description the generic name is Charitopus , a valid generic name in Encyrtidae (see also under Charitopus bambeyi ). Bouček (1976b) transferred the species to Eupelmus and this is accepted here. This is a darkly colored species of the subgenus Episolindelia Girault, 1914 , with some metallic bluish-green shine, without yellow non-metallic areas and with thick, long, and curved black ovipositor sheaths covered in long dark setae. All specimens in the type series are conspecific so there is no need to select a lectotype.