Synopeas hyllus ( Walker, 1835 )

Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28), pp. 1651-1703 : 1696

Synopeas hyllus ( Walker, 1835)

= Synopeas figitiforme Thomson, 1859 [synonymized by Buhl (1998)]

England: Croydon, Coulsdon, Happy Valley , 4 females, 7 September 1975, Noyes, J.S. ( BMNH) ; West Berkshire, Berkshire Downs, Streatley , 2 females, 26 July 1975 ; 4 females, 30 June 1975 ; 1 female, 5 July 1975, Noyes, J.S. ( BMNH) ; West Sussex, Kingley Vale, near Chichester , 1 female, June / July 1963, chalk downland turf ( BMNH) .

Scotland: Perth and Kinross, Ballinluig , 1 female, 20 July 1977, Noyes, J.S., Rogers, L. and Huddleston, T. ( BMNH) ; Perth and Kinross, Pass of Killikrankie , 2 females, 15 July 1977, Noyes, J.S., Rogers, L. and Huddleston, T., det. Notton, 2007 ( BMNH) .

Wales: Swansea, Port Eynon , 1 female, 6 June 1982, Noyes, J.S. ( BMNH) .

Recorded from Ireland by Walker (1835). S. figitiformis has female T6 1.3 times as long as wide (in S. hyllus as wide as long) and T3–T 6 in lateral view more concave than in S. hyllus . Rearing might elucidate if they are really conspecific.