Platygaster ornatus Kieffer, 1906 : 127

Notton, David G., 2010, A catalogue of the types of Platygastridae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with brief notes on the history of the collection, Zootaxa 2358, pp. 1-24 : 15

Platygaster ornatus Kieffer, 1906: 127 , figs 6–7.

Syntypes Ƥ(Ƥ); 3(3), France, environs de Paris (lost).

Remarks. Marchal (1900) originally referred material reared from Dasineura ulmaria (Bremi, 1847) (as Perrisia ulmariae Br. ) from galls on Filipendula ulmariae (Linnaeus) Maxim. (as Spiraea ulmaria ) to Polygnotus niger (Nees, 1834) but Kieffer (1906) considered it did not belong to that species and described Marchal’s material as the new species Platygaster ornatus and P. m a rc h a l i q.v. Since Kieffer’s description of this species was based on Marchal’s material it might be expected that the types would be found either in Kieffer’s collection or Marchal’s collection. One slide was found in Marchal’s collection in the MNHN (the same slide as mentioned above under P. marchali q.v.), with one female and two males labelled ‘ Polygnotus sp.’ reared from ‘ Cecid. ulmaria ’ which may belong to this species, however, it is not syntypic because the date does not agree with that stated by Kieffer. These specimens are mentioned here because they may be useful for future revisers in the interpretation of this species and possibly for the designation of a neotype, should the identity of this species be in question and the original type material not located. Two of the syntype slides of Platygaster persicariae q. v. were erroneously labelled by Marchal as described by Kieffer as P. ornatus , however, these cannot be type material of P. ornata because they were reared from Wachtliella persicariae (Linnaeus, 1767) and not from Dasineura ulmaria (Bremi, 1847) . The specific epithet of this species should be ornata as Platygaster is feminine (ICZN 1999: Art. 30.1.2). The effective publication date of P. o r n a t a is 31.v.1906 since Marchal (1906) refers to Kieffer’s paper as having been published and Marchal’s paper has the imprint publication date 1.vi.1906. Although Kieffer only gave the type locality for P. ornata as ‘environs de Paris’, the details given by Marchal (1900) show that the type locality was probably Fontenay–aux–Roses, Hauts–de–Seine or Saint–Leu–la–Forêt, Val d’Oise.