Eupelmus (Eupelmus) albopilosa (Crosby, 1909) Werner & Peters, 2018

Werner, Jennifer & Peters, Ralph S., 2018, Taxonomic revision of the genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae), with description of ten new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 63, pp. 73-123 : 112

Eupelmus (Eupelmus) albopilosa (Crosby, 1909) comb. n.

Oodera albo-pilosa Crosby, 1909: 86.

Remarks.

This new combination is by authority of G. Delvare (CSIRO, Montpellier), J. Werner and R. S. Peters.

Material examined.

Female holotype, labelled " Eupelmidae ?" by Bouček 1958 (examined from two images (head frontal, body lateral), kindly provided by J. Liebherr, DECU).

Biology.

Parasite of an unknown gall-forming fly on branches of Combretum olivaceum (Crosby, 1909).

Distribution.

The species is listed from South Africa and Zambia in Noyes (2017). The record from Zambia is taken from the description; the record from South Africa is assigned to Bouček (1958). However, Bouček (1958) actually names South-East-Africa ( “Südostafrika” in the German orginal) as a geographic region, which includes Zambia, and he does not refer to a record that is different from the original description, i.e., the record from South Africa in Noyes (2017) is not correct.

Taxonomic remarks.

We only examined images of the holotype. However, the female type is clearly a specimen belonging to the subfamily Eupelminae ( Eupelmidae ), not an Oodera . The species is therefore removed from Oodera and transferred to Eupelmus . The tentative assignment to Eupelmidae was already done by Bouček (1958) (see also the label of the holotype). The species belongs to the Eupelmus orientalis species group, and might be a senior synonym of E. orientalis (Crawford, 1913) or E. vuilleti (Crawford, 1913) (Delvare pers. comm.) but the decision on the identity of this species should be left for a future Eupelmus -related work. This is the first record of Eupelmus from Zambia ( Noyes 2017).