Charitopus bambeyi 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 : 468-469

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scientific name	Charitopus bambeyi Risbec, 1951
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Charitopus bambeyi Risbec, 1951 View in CoL

Charitopus bambeyi Risbec, 1951a: 218-220 View in CoL . Original description, ♀ ♂, Senegal, Bambey. — Hedqvist 1970: 434 (catalogued). — Prinsloo 1979: 22 (possible new combination in Anastatus View in CoL ). — Noyes & Prinsloo 1998: 79 (possible new combination in Heydenia Förster, 1856 View in CoL ).

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Heydenia bambeyi (Risbec, 1951) n. comb.

A catalogue of Eupelmidae in Jean Risbec collection

TYPE MATERIAL. — MNHN.14.51. Two ♀ and two ♂ syntypes, females dry mounted under one coverslip and entire, males dry mounted and crushed under a second coverslip, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Charitolophus / Bambeyi / Risbec”.

MNHN.14.52. Two ♂ syntypes, mounted in balsam and crushed under the coverslip, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Charitolophus / Bambeyi / Risbec”.

MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.27. One ♀ and one♂ syntypes, dry mounted under the same slide, the female with the head and prothorax detached, but otherwise both specimens in good condition, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Charitolophus / Bambeyi / Risbec”.

REMARKS

Th e generic name on the slides is Charitolophus Förster, 1878 ( Eupelmidae , Calosotinae ), this being slightly more realistic, but in the description ( Risbec 1951a) the generic placement was changed to Charitopus Förster, 1856 . Risbec treated it in Eupelmidae but Charitopus is a valid generic name in Encyrtidae . The species actually belongs to Heydenia Förster, 1856 (Pteromalidae) , the same opinion being expressed by Noyes & Prinsloo (1998) and G. Delvare (pers. comm.).