Calosoter versicolor 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 : 468

Calosoter versicolor Risbec, 1951

Calosoter versicolor Risbec, 1951a: 247-249 . Original description, ♀, Senegal, Bambey.

Calosota versicolor – Hedqvist 1970: 421-423, 440 (lectotype designation, change of combination, redescribed, figured, keyed).

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Calosota versicolor (Risbec, 1951) . TYPE MATERIAL. — General collection. Lectotype ♀: “Bambey. 82/ Calosoter / versicolor Risbec [label in Risbec’s handwriting, detached from the original slide]; Lectotypus ♀ / Calosota / versicolor / Risb/ K-J. Hedqvist det. 1965; Calosota versicolor ”.

REMARKS

This species was described from two females. The original slide (MNHN.14.75) is missing as the specimens were remounted by Hedqvist. He reported the presence of two females on one slide ( Hedqvist 1970), but there is only one female remounted in the general collection. In BMNH there is a specimen originating from Hedqvist’s personal collection labeled as “Africa/ Bambey/ 82/ Risbec”. It also has an identification label by Hedqvist: “ Calosota / versicolor / Risb./ ♀ / K-J Hedqvist det. 69” ( Fig. 1H ). This specimen is the missing paralectotype of Calosoter versicolor as it has the same collecting data as the lectotype.

Cerambycobius mandrakae Risbec, 1952 ( Fig. 3A, C )

Cerambycobius mandrakae Risbec, 1952: 138-141 . Original description, ♀ ♂, Madagascar, Mandraka.

Eupelmus mandrakae – Hedqvist 1970: 436 (change of combination).

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Tineobius (Progenitobius) mandrakae ( Risbec, 1952) n. comb.

TYPE MATERIAL. — General collection. Lectotype ♀ (here designated), labeled in Gibson’s handwriting: “Elevage du 1.4.1950 / N° 6.18. Eclos 8.5.50/ P. de galle de tige de/ la plante inconnu de la/ Mandraka (A.R.); Inst. Scient./ Madagascar; Cerambycobius / mandrakae ♀; Lectotype / (Gibson, 1991) [red label]”.

One ♂ paralectotype, labeled in Gibson’s handwriting: “ Cerambycobius / mandrakae ♂ / Risbec; Paralectotype ” .

MNHN.1.75. Original slide of the lectotype and paralectotype, labelled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Eupelmidae / Cerambycobius / mandrakae / Risbec/ ♀ et ♂ / T [large red letter]” and “Elevage du 1.4.50/ N° 6.18 Eclos 8.5.50/ P. de galle de tige/ de la plante inconnue/ de la Mandraka/ (A.R.); Inst. Scient./ Madagascar ”, plus a label in Gibson’s handwriting “ ♀ & ♂ point mounted/ by G. Gibson 1991” .

MNHN.1.49. One ♀ paralectotype, dry mounted, with collapsed head but otherwise in good condition, labelled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Eupelmidae / Cerambycobius / mandrakae / Risbec” and “Elevage du 11.3.50/ N° 720., Eclos 11.4.50/ P. de. la galle sur/ feuilles d’ Albizzia / fastigiata de la/ Mandraka (R. P.); Inst. Scient./ Madagascar ” .

REMARKS

Both specimens from slide MNHN.1.75 were remounted by G. Gibson, labeled accordingly and are in the general collection. The female bears a red label “ Lectotype (Gibson, 1991)”; this previously unpublished lectotype designation is here validated. The male from the same slide and the female on slide MNHN.1.49 are paralectotypes. The lectotype and the male paralectotype belong to Tineobius Ashmead, 1896 , subgenus Progenitobius Gibson, 1995 . Both specimens have a very long maxillary palpus with elongated last segment ( Fig. 3A, C ). The female has the hind tibia slightly compressed with a whitish dorsal margin in the basal quarter and structures of the propodeum, Mt7, and syntergum are very similar to that of the type species of the subgenus [ Tineobius (Progenitobius) elongatus ( Risbec, 1952) ]. The female on slide MNHN.1.49 belongs to a species of Eupelmus (Episolindelia) with a foliaceous scape, filamentous dark ovipositor, and fore wing with a median longitudinal infuscation. Although the specimen is mentioned by Risbec (1952), all these characters do not fit the original description.

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).

FIG. 3. – A, C, Cerambycobius mandrakae Risbec, 1952, ♂ paralectotype (A) and lectotype ♀ (C); B, Fanamokala perineti Risbec, 1960, lectotype.