Stylops childreni Gray & Westwood, 1832

Straka, Jakub, Jůzová, Kateřina & Nakase, Yuta, 2015, Nomenclature and taxonomy of the genus Stylops (Strepsiptera): an annotated preliminary world checklist, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (1), pp. 305-332 : 323

Stylops childreni Gray & Westwood, 1832

Stylops childreni Gray & Westwood, 1832 in GRIFFITH (1832): 684 *, plate 59, M. Type locality not indicated.

?= Stylops vicinae Pierce, 1909: 110 , F. Type locality: USA, New Hampshire; Canada. Supposed new junior subjective synonym.

= Stylops dunningi Pierce, 1919: 438 . Nomen nudum ( BOHART 1941).

Host: Andrena (Melandrena) vicina Smith, 1853 ( PIERCE 1909).

DNA barcode sequence. KF803530 .

Notes. There is problematic authorship of the species S. childreni . GRIFFITH (1832) is most likely not the only author of the book where the species was described. Species description was prepared based on the work of G. R. Gray, who named the species, and J. O. Westwood, who prepared a figure plate with the name of Stylops on the plate and signed the plate, and thus we suggest authorship of the name S. childreni to Gray & Westwood equally.

Distances between DNA barcode sequences of S. childreni and other related species of Stylops from the Nearctic representatives of the subgenus Melandrena are 3 % ( JŮZOVÁ et al. 2015). For this reason S. cornii is not considered to be a synonym of S. childreni .