Alloxysta pedestris ( Curtis, 1838 )

Ferrer-Suay, Mar, Selfa, Jesús & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2018, Palaearctic species of Charipinae (Hymenoptera, Figitidae): two new species, synthesis and identification key, European Journal of Taxonomy 427, pp. 1-110 : 61-62

Alloxysta pedestris ( Curtis, 1838)

Fig. 3.1

Cynips pedestris Curtis, 1838: 688 . Type: deposited in MVMA (examined).

Allotria pedestris – Cameron 1886: 88.

Nephycta pedestris – Kieffer 1900: 114.

Alloxysta pedestris – Hellén 1963: 19.

Diagnosis

Alloxysta pedestris is mainly characterized as a brachypterous species without a visible radial cell, without pronotal or propodeal carinae, and with antenna with F1 longer than pedicel and F2, and F2 subequal to F3 (Fig. 3.1). It is similar to A. apteroidea , but can be differentiated by the length of the fore wing (reaching the anterior end of the metasoma in A. pedestris , very short, practically absent, in A. apteroidea ) and the F1–pedicel proportion (F1 is longer than pedicel in A. pedestris (Fig. 3.1), but shorter than pedicel in A. apteroidea (Fig. 2.3)).

Material examined

Lectotype

UNITED KINGDOM: England: ♂ [Lectotype (round label with blue in the margin)], [Holotype of Cynips pedestris Curt. det. Fergusson and Quinlan 1980], [ENT-936; Alloxysta pedestris ( Curtis, 1838) ♂ M. Ferrer-Suay det. 2011] ( MVMA).

Paralectotype

UNITED KINGDOM: England: 1 ♀ [Paralectotype (round label with blue in the margin)], Type of Cynips pedestris Curt., G.J. Kerrich det. 1948, = Pezophycta p. ♀], [MUS. VIC. ENTO 2011-IIL (green label)], [ Alloxysta pedestris ( Curtis, 1838) ♀ M. Ferrer-Suay det. 2011] ( MVMA).

Additional specimens

NORWAY: 1 ♂ [Kyrkjtangen Nordåsv, Hoy: Bergen, 1980-05-19, A. Fjeldså leg] ( BMNH).

Distribution

Europe.

Certain records: England ( Curtis 1838: 688).

Uncertain records: Austria ( Hellén 1963: 19), Denmark ( Hellén 1963: 19), Finland ( Hellén 1963: 19), Germany ( Hellén 1963: 19), Ireland ( O’Connor & Nash 1997; O’Connor 2002: 122), Madeira ( Borges et al. 2008), Norway ( Hellén 1966: 393), Romania ( Ionescu 1969: 237), Scotland ( Cameron 1886: 88), Sweden ( Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1910: 292).