Lamprotatus, Westwood (BoucIek, 1990

Baur, Hannes, 2001, The Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea, Ichneumonoidea, Platygastroidea) described by Vittorio Delucchi: an annotated catalogue, Journal of Natural History 35 (1), pp. 55-125 : 86-87

Lamprotatus ¯avus Delucchi ( Pteromalidae )

Lamprotatus X avus Delucchi, 1953a: 203. Holotype m, Austria: Tirol, Innsbruck ( NMW [examined]).

Material. HOLOTYPE m (cr, right antenna, right hind wing, left mesotarsus partly, and metatarsi lacking, head and left pedicel with ¯agellum glued beside rest of body) labelled`Nordtirol Innsbruck ... [illegible] 20.5.1923. E. CleÂment; LAMPROTATUS ¯avus n. V. Delucchi det.; TYPE [red]’.

Remarks. Delucchi described the female and stated`Type im Nat. Museum Wien.’ but did not specify the number of specimens he had. Holotype badly damaged during shipment and subsequently remounted by me.

Delucchi (1955a: 12) separated X avus from Lamprotatus crassipes Thomson by the colour of the metafemora and the sculpture of the propodeum. Examination of the name-bearing types of both species and 15 females and 41 males from Northern and Central Europe ( BMNH, LUZM, MHNG, VD) revealed that X avus falls within the range of variation of crassipes . A good summary of the variation in the latter species is given by Graham (1969: 238). It should be noted that the lectotype of crassipes is in fact a male and not a female as stated by Graham (1969: 238) and later by Hansson (1991: 16).

Status. Junior synonym of Lamprotatus (Lamprotatus) crassipes Thomson syn. n.