Synopeas sosis ( Walker, 1835 )

Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28), pp. 1651-1703 : 1699

Synopeas sosis ( Walker, 1835)

Britain: 1 female, pre-1868, Desvignes, T. ( BMNH) .

England: Cornwall, St Merryn , 1 female, June 1916, Lamb, C.G. ( BMNH) ; Wiltshire, Devizes , 4 females, 20 July 1949 ; 6 females, 24 July 1949, ex gall of Andricus kollari (Hartig, 1843) , Marsden-Jones, E. ( BMNH) ; Huntingdonshire, Monks Wood , 1 female and 1 male, 5 April to 9 May 2005, ash/elm wood, Malaise trap, Broad, G. ( ZMUC) ; Herefordshire, Mary Knoll Valley , 1 female, 21–24 May 2007, stream/ ancient wood/ conifer plantation, Notton, D.G. ( BMNH) ; Surrey, Esher Common , 1 female, 29 May 1971, Bou C ek, Z. ( BMNH) ; Surrey, White Downs, near Dorking , 1 female, 31 May 1971, Bou C ek, Z. ( BMNH) .

Scotland: Moray, Elgin, 1 female, 24–25 June 1974, suction trap, Rothamstead Experimental Station ( BMNH) .

Recorded from England and Ireland by Walker (1835). A doubtful record from England by Barnes (1932). Recorded as S. muticum (Nees, 1834) from England by Notton (2008), from Ireland by Buhl and O’Connor (2008) and from the Isle of Man by Buhl and Bennett (2009). According to the short original description and to Thomson’s (1859) amendment, S. muticum is similar to S. sosis , but Graham (1988) indicates that the lectotype of S. muticum (only legs and metasoma left) could be a Platygaster , so the identity of Nees’ species remains doubtful.