Chelonus diversus 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 : 1168

Chelonus diversus Walker, 1874

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Taxonomic history. Morley (1913b) transferred this species to Phanerotoma Wesmael, 1838 . van Achterberg (1990) included P. diversa within the subgenus Phanerotoma .

Current taxonomy. Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) diversa ( Walker, 1874) ( Braconidae : Cheloninae : Phanerotomini ).

Type number. Type 3c.833. Specimen # NHMUK010881034

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.c.833’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third line handwriting); third label, ‘ Japan./Coll.F. Walker./ 1913–71.’ (square label; printed); fourth label, ‘ Chelonus / diversus’ (square label; handwriting); fifth label, ‘262’ (square label; handwriting); sixth label, ‘ Phanerotoma sp./Morley det. Xii 1913 ’(square label; ‘Morley det.’ printed and the remaining characters handwriting); seventh label, ‘B.M. TYPE /HYM./ Chelonus /diversus/ Walker 1874 ’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third to fifth lines handwriting).

Condition. Good, although the right antenna is missing after the 12th flagellomere, left antenna after 11th flagellomere.

Figures

Figure 34. Holotype male of Chelonus diversus Walker, 1874 (= Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) diversa (Walker, 1874)): (a) labels (b) lateral habitus (c) head, frontal view (d) head, dorsal view (e) head, lateral view (f) mesoscutum and scutellum, dorsal view (g) propodeum, dorsal view (h) metasoma, dorsal view (i) mesosoma, lateral view (j) wings.