spatulus Brindle (Nesogaster)

Fig.59

Type material

1 ♀, paratype, F3233.548 (Fig. 59), dried, mounted on card

Locality label

Fiji, Vanua Levu / Nandrau / 9.10.1977 / G. Kuschel.

Determination label

Nesogaster ♀, / spatulus Brindle / det. A. Brindle 1983 / paratype.

Taxonomy

Spongiphoridae, Nesogastrinae, Nesogaster .

Remarks

This species is fully described in a typewritten manuscript in the Brindle archive, item 65 (Brindle & Maddison: date not known [unpublished?]), as ‘ N. spatulus sp. n. NZAC Endemic’ [NZAC = New Zealand Arthropod Collection]. The label data matches the described material exactly.