Asolcus simoni reticulatus Delucchi (Scelionidae), 1961

Baur, Hannes, 2001, The Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea, Ichneumonoidea, Platygastroidea) described by Vittorio Delucchi: an annotated catalogue, Journal of Natural History 35 (1), pp. 55-125 : 67-68

Asolcus simoni reticulatus Delucchi (Scelionidae)

Asolcus simoni reticulatus Delucchi, 1961a: 44 , 49. Syntypes m, l Lebanon, Syria, or Turkey [not de®nitely located].

Remarks. Delucchi (1961a: 50) claimed to have deposited two females and two males of his`seÂrie type’ (from Turkey, Syria, or Lebanon) in the MHNG. However, no specimens could be traced there. The species is not mentioned in an unpublished list of types at the MHNG compiled by Ch. FerrieÁre either. The material in Delucchi’ s collection comprises one female (mp) labelled`A. sinioni [sic] reticulatus V. Delucchi det.’, one female (mp) without any labels standing next to the former specimen, and another four females and four males (mp) without any data under the header` A. reticulatus Deluc. ’ in a small drawer containing something like a reference collection of the genus. All specimens are considered doubtfully part of the type series, since they lack any data. Perhaps this is only the (non-type) material which has been cited for the INRA ( Delucchi, 1961a: 51). Furthermore, one specimen of reticulatus , provided with Delucchi’s identi®cation labels only, is present in the NMP (Macek, in litt.).

In the MNHN there is a series of 20 specimens labelled as Àsolcus reticulatus Delucchi’ and`HOMOTYPE [red]’. The material originates from MekneÁs, Morocco, and does obviously not belong to the type series. Homotype here also only means (see also Asolcus ghor W i Delucchi) that the specimens were compared with type material (Villemant, in litt.). This may at least be interpreted as evidence that a type series actually was designated.

Delucchi (1963) raised the status of the subspecies to species level and gave some more details on certain characters.

Status. Junior synonym of Trissolcus simoni (Mayr) ( Kozlov, 1968: 205) .