Alaptus pusillus Girault, 1938

Serguei V. Triapitsyn, 2017, Revision of Alaptus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Holarctic region, with taxonomic notes on some extralimital species, Zootaxa 4279 (1), pp. 1-92 : 86

Alaptus pusillus Girault, 1938

Alaptus pusillus Girault (as “ Girauld”) 1938: 395. Type locality: Canterbury, Victoria, Australia (type status not indicated). Alaptus pusillus Girault : Dahms 1986: 451 (effective lectotype designation, 1 female in QMBA [not examined]); Lin et al. 2007: 21 (list).

Type material examined. Paralectotype female [ BMNH], here designated to clarify the status of the original syntype specimens, on slide labeled: 1. “ Victoria: Melbourne Canterbury; on windows in out-buildings, B. Blackbourn coll. A. A. Girault det. B.M. 1932-280”; 2. HYMENOPTERA Fam. 25 Mymaridae Alaptus pusillus ♀ Girault nov. Fairy-fly 166”.

Material examined. AUSTRALIA: VICTORIA, Melbourne [1 ♂, BMNH].

Distribution. Australasian: Australia (Victoria).

Hosts. Unknown.

Comments. Girault (1938) did not specify either sex or type material of this species. Dahms (1986), who was not aware of another female syntype of this species in the BMNH, effectively designated a lectotype by calling the female in the QMBA a holotype (ICZN 1999, Article 74.6).

In the paralectotype female, F1 is short and one of the fore wings has 1 basal seta on the disc but the other lacks one. The species seems to be similar but yet different from both A. pallidicornis and A. schmitzi .