Brasema alasorae Risbec, 1956

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 : 464

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scientific name	Brasema alasorae Risbec, 1956
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Brasema alasorae Risbec, 1956 View in CoL

Brasema alasorae Risbec, 1956a: 130 View in CoL . Original description, ♀, Madagascar, reared from galls on the stalk of Helichrysum bojeranum ; 1958: 99-102 (subsequent description, description of the male). — Hedqvist 1970: 433 (catalogued).

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Eupelmus (Eupelmus) alasorae (Risbec, 1956) n. comb.

TYPE MATERIAL. — MNHN.4.55. Lectotype ♀ (here designated), dry mounted, in good condition; on the same slide there is another coverslip, but with the wax sealing damaged on one side and without any specimen, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “G 122/ Brasema / alasorae / Risbec” and “ Lectotype [red label]; LECTOTYPE / Brasema / alasorae Risbec 1956 / Det. Fusu L. 2011”.

REMARKS

Risbec (1956a) made the name Brasema alasorae available by including the female in a key, but he didn’t specify the number of specimens or exact locality data, except that the species was from Madagascar and that it was reared from galls on the stalk of Helichrysum bojerianum DC. He also stated that “La clé d’identification tient compte également de trois espèces malgaches dont les descriptions ne pourront être publiées très prochainement et dont les diagnoses provisoires seront ainsi publiées”. Consequently, Risbec described Brasema alasorae as a new species again in 1958 and the description was based on a male and a female from slide N° G.122 [MNHN.4.55]. For Brasema alasorae as well as for B. andropogonae Risbec, 1956 and B. fantsiliae Risbec, 1956 , we consider the 1958 publication as a subsequent description and not as a description of a new species, because of Risbec’s 1956 statement reproduced above. The male of B. alasorae mentioned in 1958 is probably lost (see above under type material), and the sole present female on slide MNHN.4.55 is here designated as lectotype.