Lamprotatus kerrichi Delucchi (Pteromalidae)

Baur, Hannes, 2001, The Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea, Ichneumonoidea, Platygastroidea) described by Vittorio Delucchi: an annotated catalogue, Journal of Natural History 35 (1), pp. 55-125 : 87-88

Lamprotatus kerrichi Delucchi (Pteromalidae)

Lamprotatus kerrichi Delucchi, 1953a: 203 . Holotype m, Germany (NMW [examined]).

Material. HOLOTYPE m (cr, left antenna, right scape, right fore wing, left mesotarsus, and right mesotarsus partly lacking, head, right pedicel with ¯agellum, right hind wing, and fore legs glued beside rest of body) labelled`Coll. FoÈrster, don. Mayr.; GITOGNATHUS [sic] kerrichi n. V. Delucchi det.; TYPE [red]’. One slide (sc) labelled`21; Lamprotatus kerrichi n. sp. antenna m DIS’ with left antenna ( Delucchi, 1955a: 70, ®gure 96) and one slide (sc) labelled`22; Lamprotatus kerrichi n. sp. ala. m DIS’ with right fore wing (1955a: 70, ®gure 95) of holotype.

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

Delucchi (1955a: 68) separated kerrichi from all other species of Sphaeripalpus [sub Gitognathus ] mainly by the presence of a rather abrupt edge delimiting anteriorly the reticulate part of the petiole. Re-examination of the holotype, however, revealed that kerrichi undoubtedly belongs to S. viridis FoÈrster. Investigations on many females and males from Northern and Central Europe ( BMNH, ETHZ, LUZM, MG, MHNG, NMBE, RA, VD) showed that an edge is, to a varying degree, also present in the latter species. The variation ranges from a weak elevation to a very distinct and rather sharp edge, with many intermediate states. Since the holotype of kerrichi ®ts the diagnosis of viridis also in other respects, it can have no separate status.

Status. Junior synonym of Sphaeripalpus viridis FoÈrster syn. n.