Genus Amblyaspis Förster, 1856

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Amblyaspis Förster, 1856: 107, 112. Type species Platygaster tritici Walker, 1835 by subsequent designation by Vlug 1995: 12.

Remarks

The genus Amblyaspis is defined by a conical and setose mesoscutellum in both sexes and the close diagonal appression of the apical two clavomeres in the female. The type species is Platygaster tritici Walker, 1835, the male lectotype of which is in the NMINH, Dublin. According to Vlug (1995), the specimen identified as Pl. tritici in the Förster collection is a different species.

The NHMW includes the female lectotype of Am. walkeri Förster, 1861 and an original exemplar of Am. forticornis (Nees, 1834), the type specimen of which has been lost. We here designate this specimen (NHMW-HYM#0005324) as the neotype of Am. forticornis .