Stylops ater Reichert, 1914

Straka, Jakub, Jůzová, Kateřina & Nakase, Yuta, 2015, Nomenclature and taxonomy of the genus Stylops (Strepsiptera): an annotated preliminary world checklist, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (1), pp. 305-332 : 310-311

Stylops ater Reichert, 1914 , stat. restit.

= Stylops alterimus: ANONYMUS (1898a: 509 , with reference to plate). Incorrect subsequent spelling of Stylops aterrimus Newport, misidentification.

= Stylops atterimus: ANONYMUS (1898b : plate “Zuchtwahl II”, Figs 7a and 7b, not paginated). Incorrect subsequent spelling of Stylops aterrimus Newport, misidentification.

Stylops ater Reichert, 1914: 151 , M. Type locality: Germany, Merseburg.

? = Stylops krygeri Pierce, 1919: 445 , F. Type locality: Denmark, Fejo. Status uncertain, see note.

= Stylops ovinae Noskiewicz & Poluszyński, 1927: 1098 . Nomen nudum.

= Stylops muelleri Borchert, 1971: 18 , M, F. Type locality: Germany, Berlin-Spandau, Weinmeisterhorn. Supposed new junior subjective synonym.

Host. Andrena (Melandrena) vaga Panzer, 1799 ( BORCHERT 1971, REICHERT 1914).

DNA barcode sequences. KF803437 , KF803438 , KF803490 , JN082812 , KF803528 , KF803529 .

Notes. Two names, Stylops alterimus and S. atterimus [sic!] appeared in a Lexicon ( ANONYMUS 1898a,b). These are not available names, because they obviously refer to S. aterrimus Newport and there is no reason to think that new names were intentionally created in a summarizing publication like lexicon, despite the accompanying figure depicting a different species, not S. aterrimus Newport.

Stylops ater was subjectively considered an incorrect subsequent spelling ( HOFENEDER & FULMEK 1943), or a junior synonym of S. aterrimus ( ULRICH 1930: 14) . However, there is no evidence that the name S. ater is merely an incorrect original spelling of S. aterrimus , and the name fulfils all the formal conditions for available name proposed before 1931 by method of indication (see ICZN 1999: Articles 12, 12.2.7). Therefore, we consider Stylops ater Reichert an available and valid name. The name S. ater was used consistently in the REICHERT’ s (1914) publication and his reference that he provided the same material for making the figure used in the Lexicon ( ANONYMUS 1898a,b) does not affect its availability, as no available species name was proposed in that book ( ANONYMUS 1898a,b). The name S. ater was not mentioned by KINZELBACH (1978: 118), who listed European species names.

Examination of the type specimen of S. krygeri is required.According to KINZELBACH (1978), S. krygeri might be the appropriate name for the Stylops species from A. vaga . However, the description of the female specimen mentions black basal half of the cephalothorax, which does not match S. ater . Such a character is typical for S. nevinsoni or S. thwaitesi .

Distances between DNA barcode sequences of this species and the other Stylops species are 10−20 % and almost invariable within S. ater ( JŮZOVÁ et al. 2015) .