Polysphincta bohemani var. tropicus Morley 1912

Broad, Gavin R., 2021, Taxonomic changes in Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), and notes on certain type specimens, Zootaxa 4941 (4), pp. 511-541 : 536

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.4.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4651323

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scientific name

Polysphincta bohemani var. tropicus Morley 1912
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19. Polysphincta bohemani var. tropicus Morley 1912

Sinarachna tropica ( Morley 1912) View in CoL : Townes & Townes 1973

Current combination. Zatypota tropica ( Morley 1912) ( Ichneumonidae View in CoL : Pimplinae ) new combination.

Material examined. Polysphincta bohemani var. tropicus Morley 1912 ♀ lectotype, designated by Townes & Townes 1973, NHMUK, Seychelles.

Comments. Morley (1912) described ‘ var. tropicus ’ on the basis of a female and two males from ‘the marshy plateaux at Mare aux Cochons and elsewhere on Silhouette in August, 1908, and at an altitude of over eight hundred feet at the Cascade Estate on Mahé about four months later.’ The male paralectotypes cannot be found now. The female lectotype of Polysphincta bohemani var. tropicus Morley 1912 is a species of Zatypota Förster , not Sinarachna Townes as placed by Townes & Townes (1973). The mesoscutum is setose all over and there is a faint indication of a hind wing nervellus, probably explaining their transfer to Sinarachna , but the occipital carina is complete (dorsally incomplete in Sinarachna ). The specimen is on long-term loan and I am unable to illustrate it.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

Genus

Polysphincta

Loc

Polysphincta bohemani var. tropicus Morley 1912

Broad, Gavin R. 2021
2021
Loc

Ichneumonidae

Latreille 1802
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