Platylabus flavidoclarus Heinrich, 1977

Dal Pos, Davide, Heilman, Victoria & Welter-Schultes, Francisco, 2022, Platylabini (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ichneumoninae) of the south-eastern United States: new distributional data, taxonomic notes, illustrated keys, and an annotated catalogue of the genera and species, Journal of Natural History 56, pp. 1869-1938 : 1907-1908

Platylabus flavidoclarus Heinrich, 1977

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Platylabus flavidoclarus Heinrich, 1977: 275 (descr., key); Yu and Horstmann 1997: 678 (cat.); Schmidt and Schmidt 2011: 75 (cat.); Yu et al. 2016 (cat.).

Original type series

Holotype ♀, by original designation ( ZSM).

Type locality

United States of America, Louisiana, Evangeline Co., ‘Chicot’.

Current distribution ( Figure 24 )

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Louisiana ( Heinrich 1977).

Host

Unknown.

Male

Unknown.

Comments

This species is known only from the type locality and a single female specimen. Heinrich (1977, p. 275), while describing this species, acknowledged that it could represent a subspecies of P. clarus Cresson, 1867 , adding the fact that if this is the case, then the male of P. clarus recorded for Louisiana should be attributed to the new taxon. However, he tentatively ranked P. flavidoclarus as a species. We have examined a male specimen, collected in Georgia, and housed at the FSCA, that could be a male of this species, due to the very extensive white markings on the entire body. However, more material is needed to corroborate our hypothesis and, therefore, we do not describe it here.

Figures

Figure 24. Platylabus flavidoclarus Heinrich, 1977, distributional map: known record (in blue).