Platygaster tisias 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 : 1691-1692

Platygaster tisias Walker, 1835

= Platygaster siphon Förster, 1840 [synonymized by Buhl (1996)]

Britain: 1 female, pre-1881, Smith, F. ( BMNH) .

England: Buckinghamshire, Princes Risborough , 1 female, 25 June 1938, Benson, R.B. ( BMNH) ; Cambridgeshire, Wicken Fen , 8 females, 2 June 1976, Noyes, J.S. ( BMNH) ; Isle of Wight, Bonchurch , 4 females, 6 June 1961, Abraham, Horascek and Vardy ( BMNH) ; Isle of Wight, Ventnor , 1 female, 3–16 June 1961, Abraham, Horascek and Vardy ( BMNH) ; Sussex, Offham , 3 females, 3 July 1983, Fergusson, N.D.M. ( BMNH) ; West Berkshire, Berkshire Downs, near Streatley , 1 female, 14 June 1975 ; 6 females, 31 May 1975, Noyes, J.S. ( BMNH) ; Herefordshire, Mary Knoll Valley , 2 females, 21–24 May 2007, Notton, D.G. ( BMNH) .

Scotland: Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Stornaway Castle, 1 female, 4 June 1962, Broomfield and Vardy ( BMNH) .

Wales: Isle of Anglesey, Llanddona , 1 female, 6–17 June 1962, Eastop, V.F. ( BMNH) .

Recorded from near London by Walker (1835), from England by Notton (2008), from Ireland by O’Connor et al. (2004), and from the Isle of Man by Buhl and Bennett (2009). This species has less slender female antennae than the otherwise very similar P. confinis .