Telenomus minutus (Westwood)

Talamas, Elijah J., Awad, Jessica, Tortorici, Francesco & Johnson, Norman F., 2024, Platygastroidea in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History: taxonomic updates and a photographic catalog of type specimens, Insecta Mundi 2024 (30), pp. 1-16 : 8

Telenomus minutus (Westwood)

Hemisius minutus Westwood 1833b: 445 (original description); Nees von Esenbeck, 1834: 411 (description); Westwood, 1840: 77 (description); Blanchard, 1840: 291 (not seen: reference from Dalla Torre, 1898); Kieffer, 1926: 131

(description). Hemisius minutus? Westwood : Walker, 1836: 344 (description). Hemisius Minutus Westwood : Kieffer, 1912: 85 (description). Telenomus minutus (Westwood) : Masner, 1961: 167 (description, generic transfer); Masner, 1965: 116 (type information);

Mineo, 2005b: 10 (description); Mineo, 2006: 29 (synonymy); Johnson, 1992: 599 (cataloged, type information).

Material examined. Syntype female ( OUMNH HYME 0024), Hammersmith, The Grove, Hammersmith and Fulham Borough, Greater London Reg., England, UK. 24-APR-1833

Comments. NFJ first examined the only known syntype during a visit to Oxford in 1979. At that time the specimen was glued to a small card mount and was entire, i.e., not disarticulated. The elongate clavomeres suggest that the species is related to the floridanus species group of Johnson (1984), parasitoids of lygaeid eggs.