Platygaster mutica Nees von Esenbeck, 1834

Talamas, Elijah J., Awad, Jessica, Tortorici, Francesco & Johnson, Norman F., 2024, Platygastroidea in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History: taxonomic updates and a photographic catalog of type specimens, Insecta Mundi 2024 (30), pp. 1-16 : 2-3

Platygaster mutica Nees von Esenbeck

Platygaster muticus Nees von Esenbeck, 1834: 308 (original description); Vlug, 1973: 181 (material in Förster’s collection,

NHMW); Graham, 1988a: 28 (lectotype designation). Synopeas muticum (Nees von Esenbeck) : Buhl and Notton, 2009: 1699 (type information). Synopeas Muticus (Nees von Esenbeck) : Kieffer, 1914: 435 (description). Synopeas muticus (Nees von Esenbeck) : Thomson, 1859: 74 (description, generic transfer); Kieffer, 1926: 685 (description,

keyed); Vlug, 1973: 182 (material in Förster’s collection, NHMW); Buhl, 1999: 41 (keyed): Buhl and O’Connor, 2010:

14 (distribution); Vlug, 1995: 80 (cataloged, type information).

Platygaster mutica (Nees von Esenbeck) : Awad et al., 2023: 36 (generic transfer, type information).

Material examined. Lectotype female ( OXUM 0008 ), Sickershausen , Bavaria, Germany.

Comments. The identity and generic placement of this species is uncertain. Thomson (1859) transferred it to Synopeas based on the description, and an original exemplar in the NHMW is identifiable as Synopeas ( Awad et al., 2023) . However, the lectotype designated by Graham (1988a), consisting only of a metasoma and legs, does not belong in Synopeas based on the visible suture between T1 and T2. In the absence of further diagnostic characters, this species was returned to Platygaster by Awad et al. (2023).