Ameroseius benoiti Elsen, 1973

Ameroseius benoiti Elsen, 1973: 735.

Ameroseius benoiti . - Narita et al. 2015: 396.

Type depository.

Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren Belgium.

Type locality and habitat.

Democratic Republic of Congo (as Zaire), Katompi, Katanga, on carpenter bee, Xylocopa lepeletieri (as Mesotrichia lepeletieri) ( Hymenoptera).

Comparative material.

Democratic Republic of Congo: 1 ♀ (MRAC: 136509, holotype) - Oct. 1920, Katanga, Katompi, Mesotrichia lepeletieri, leg. Ch. Seydel ; 1 ♀ (MRAC: 142506, paratype) - Kasaï, Kondue, Chlorion ciliatum var. maxillae, leg. E. Luja ; 1 ♀ (MRAC: 170379, paratype; published as 142507) - Dec. 1932, Kapanga, Chlorion incomptum, leg. G. F. Overlaet ; 1 ♀ (MRAC: 142507, paratype) - Nov. 1932, Lulua, Kapanga, Chlorion ciliatum var. instabile, leg. G. F. Overlaet.

Remarks.

No fundamental differences could be found between the type specimens of the four species described by Elsen (1973), namely Ameroseius benoiti, Ameroseius gillardinae and Ameroseius longitarsis . These species were erected in my opinion on untenable characters. For example, I could not detect any of the illustrated structures of sperm induction system as they were presented in original figures 1-18 given by Elsen (1973).