Telenomus truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck)

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 : 10

Telenomus truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck)

Teleas truncatus Nees von Esenbeck, 1834: 289–290 (original description); Graham, 1988a: 28 (type information); Graham, 1988b: 88 (lectotype designation).

Teleas Linnei Nees von Esenbeck, 1834: 288 (original description); Mayr, 1879: 707 (synonym of Telenomus truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck)) ; Graham, 1988a: 28 (type information); Johnson, 1992: 617 (type information).

Teleas Zetterstedtii Ratzeburg, 1844: 185 (original description). Mayr, 1879: 707 (synonym of Telenomus truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck)) .

Prophanurus truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck) : Kieffer, 1912: 47, 58 (description, generic transfer).

Telenomus truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck) : Mayr, 1879: 700, 702, 707 (description, generic transfer, synonymy, keyed); Kieffer, 1926: 31 (description, keyed); Javahery, 1968: 431 (description, keyed); Szabó, 1978: 219, 222 (description, neotype designation, keyed); Johnson, 1984: 41 (taxonomic status, neotype information); Mineo, 2012: 61 (placed in turesis group); Johnson, 1992: 617 (cataloged, type information).

Teleas linnei Nees von Esenbeck : Graham, 1988b: 88 (lectotype designation).

Material examined. Lectotype female ( OXUM 0011 ), Sickershausen , Bavaria, Germany.

Comments. Johnson (1984) provided a detailed description of taxonomic issues surrounding Telenomus truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck) , one of which was the loss of a neotype designated by Szabó (1978). Given the morphological similarity of Te. truncatus to some other species of Palearctic Telenomus Haliday and potential for confusion, it was perhaps fortuitous that no concepts based on the neotype were perpetuated. Johnson (1984) also stated that no reviser had ever dealt with both Te. chloropus (Thomson) and Te. truncatus , which has remained true up to the present. Such an effort is underway, and the images of Te. truncatus have proven to be essential for analyzing European species of Telenomus that parasitize stink bug eggs, some of which are pests of agriculture.