Laelius femoralis (Förster, 1860)

Notton, David G., Popovici, Ovidiu A., Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Rond, Jeroen De & Burn, John T., 2014, Parasitoid wasps new to Britain (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Eurytomidae, Braconidae & Bethylidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 99 (99), pp. 1-20 : 15

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2014.99
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3852370
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scientific name	Laelius femoralis (Förster, 1860)
status

Treatment

Allepyris microneurus Kieffer, 1906: 416-417 (syn. nov.).

Allepyris nigricrus Kieffer, 1906: 417 (syn. nov.).

Identification

Material (previously identified as L. microneurus ) in BMNH was reidentified according to the key by Vikberg & Koponen (1995) to confirm the presence of L. femoralis in Britain.

Material examined

ENGLAND: Berkshire, Silwood Park, 18 Aug. 1975, dead spruce, O.W. Richards, B.M.1967-510; Kent, Beckenham, 9 Jul. 1972, D.E. Kimmins; Surrey, Kew, 17 Jul. 1977, from Crataegus Linnaeus, 1753 , specimen number 15,576, V.F. Eastop (all BMNH).

Remarks

Berland (1928) studied the female types of L. macrocerus and L. nigricrus (in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris) and could not find any difference between them, so he synonymised the two names. It was first suggested that L. microneurus was a synonym of L. femoralis by de Rond (in Vikberg & Koponen 2005) and from subsequent examination of all the types, including the female neotype of L. femoralis (in the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden), de Rond has come to the conclusion that both L. microneurus and L. nigricrus are junior synonyms of L. femoralis . This means that the species in Britain referred to as L. microneurus by Perkins (1976) should now be called L. femoralis .