Biosteres longicauda, Madl & Achterberg, 2014

Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1), pp. 5-220 : 157

Fopius longicauda (GRANGER 1949)

Biosteres longicauda n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 394 (key), 395 (fig. 411), 396 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).

Fopius longicauda (GRANGER 1949) : WHARTON 1997: 18 (tax.), 33 (tax.).

Fopius longicauda (GRANGER 1949) : WHARTON 1999: 49 ( Madagascar), 50 (tab. 1: tax.), 53 (tax.), 54 (tax.).

Fopius longicauda (GRANGER 1949) : FISCHER & MADL 2008: 1470 (cat.), 1489 (tab. 1: distr.).

* Opius (Biosteres) bekilyensis n.nom.: FISCHER 1963c: 723 (key), 724 (replacement name for Biosteres longicauda GRANGER , descr. ♀, fig. 56, Madagascar).

Biosteres bekilyensis (FISCHER 1963) : FISCHER 1971c: 21 (tax., cat.).

Biosteres bekilensis (!) ( FISCHER 1963 ): PAPP 1985: 213 (cat.).

Biosteres (Chilotrichia) bekilyensis FISCHER 1963 : FISCHER 1987: 578 (key), 584 (tax., descr. ♀, fig. 484, Madagascar).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Bekily.

Endemic.

Opius bekilyensis FISCHER 1963 is an unjustified replacement name for Biosteres longicauda GRANGER 1949 in the genus Opius . Biosteres longicauda is a junior homonym of Biosteres longicauda (THOMSON 1895) , but has been transferred to the genus Fopius .