Paramesius Westwood, 1832

Chemyreva, Vasilisa G. & Kolyada, Victor A., 2018, Review of the genus Paramesius Westwood, 1832 (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae, Spilomicrini) from Russia, with description of four new species, Zootaxa 4524 (4), pp. 453-472 : 454

Genus Paramesius Westwood, 1832

Paramesius Westwood, 1832: 129 .

Aparamesius Kieffer, 1913: 436 . Synonymized by Masner & Muesebeck in Krombein & Burks (1967).

Type species Paramesius rufipes Westwood, 1832 , by monotypy (secondary homonym of Teleas rufipes Fonscolombe, 1832 ) = Paramesius belytoides Marshall, 1867 (suggested here).

For the diagnosis of the genus, see Macek (2001) and Masner & García (2002).

Taxonomic remark. The type species name P. rufipes Westwood was preoccupied by P. rufipes ( Fonscolombe, 1832) , the description of which had been published two months earlier ( Fergusson, 1977). Dessart (1966) defined P. rufipes ( Fonscolombe, 1832) as a senior name to P. elongatus Thomson, 1859 , and this synonymy is confirmed here. Fergusson (1977) replaced the name P. rufipes Westwood (as a junior homonym) with P. westwoodi Fergusson, 1977 . However, Macek (2001) suggested using the names P. rufipes Westwood and P. elongatus Thomson “because P. rufipes Westwood is the type species of the genus Paramesius with type specimen preserved in OXUM, in contrast to obscure Paramesius (= Teleas) rufipes ( Fonscolombe, 1832) , the type of which is lost” (Macek, 2001). This proposition contradicts to the ICZN (1999), and the type Paramesius (= Teleas) rufipes ( Fonscolombe, 1832) is actually kept at MNHN (Paris, France) ( Notton, 2004).