Sagaritis ventralis Walker, 1874

Shimizu, So & Broad, Gavin R., 2020, Photographic catalogue of the oldest primary types of Japanese Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), those described by Frederick Smith and Francis Walker in 1874, Journal of Natural History 54 (17), pp. 1115-1198 : 1189-1191

Sagaritis ventralis Walker, 1874

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Taxonomic history. Uchida (1940b) transferred this species to Anilastus Förster, 1869 , and Townes et al. (1965) to Hyposoter Förster, 1869 . It is clearly a species of Hyposoter , and C. Morley’s suggestion that it might be Venturia canescens ( Gravenhorst, 1829) (‘? Nemeritis (the Ephestia sp.)’) is wide of the mark.

Current taxonomy. Hyposoter ventralis ( Walker, 1874) ( Ichneumonidae : Campopleginae ).

Type number. Type 3b.1427. Specimen # NHMUK010881037

Type status. Holotype.

Sex. Female.

Type locality. Japan.

Label data. First label, ‘Type’ (round label, with red margin; printed); second label, ‘B.M. TYPE /HYM./3.b.1427.’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third line handwriting); third label, ‘ Japan./Coll.F. Walker./ 1913–71.’ (square label; printed); fourth label, ‘262’ (square label; handwriting); fifth label, ‘ Sagaritis ?/ventralis’ (square label; handwriting); sixth label, ‘B.M. TYPE /HYM./ Sagaritis /ventralis/ Walker 1874 ’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third to fifth lines handwriting); seventh label, ‘? Nemeritis (the Ephestia sp.)/Morley det. xii 1913 ’ (square label; ‘Morley det.’ printed and the remaining characters handwriting).

Condition. Fairly good; right antenna missing after pedicel, left antenna after 22nd flagellomere, fourth and fifth tarsomeres of right fore leg, second to fifth tarsomeres of left fore leg, right hind tarsus missing.

Figures

Figure 48. Holotype female of Sagaritis ventralis Walker, 1874 (= Hyposoter ventralis (Walker, 1874)): (a) labels (b) lateral habitus (c) mesoscutum and scutellum, dorsal view (d) propodeum, dorsal view (e) head, lateral view (f) head, frontal view (g) head, dorsal view (h) mesosoma, lateral view.