Labolips innupta Haliday, 1857: 173

Notton, David G., 2014, A catalogue of the types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London, European Journal of Taxonomy 75, pp. 1-123 : 44

Labolips innupta Haliday, 1857: 173 , pl. 10, figs 1-20.

Valid name

Labolips innupta Haliday, 1857 .

Summary of types

Syntype ♀, BMNH number 9.905.

Primary type data

59-4; Labolips / extincta ♀; Britain/ purchased from/ T.V.Wollaston/ named by Haliday/ BM 1859.4; syntype ♀ / Labolips / innupta Haliday / det. D.Notton, 2003.

Type locality

Ireland, County Down, between Belfast and Holywood, Knocknagoney, Clifden House.

Remarks

Haliday evidently collected a long series of this species, much of which he dispersed before making a formal description in an effort to discover whether it was previously known or described ( Haliday 1857). Hence, as well as the twelve syntypes in Dublin, syntypic material of Labolips innupta is also to be found in the collections of the Natural History Museum, London (one female, via T.V. Wollaston) and in the Dale Collection at the Hope Department of Entomology, Oxford University Museum of Natural History (two females). The London and Oxford syntypes are all labelled “ Labolips extincta ”, a manuscript name Haliday used for this species before settling on the published name. There may also be syntypes in the Förster collection at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Wien, Austria, as the description of Labolips Förster, 1856 was made by Förster from two females sent to him by Haliday ( Förster 1856: 125; Notton & O’Connor 2004). The London syntype is mounted on a card and is set with the wings spread in a similar fashion to the other syntypes.