Galesus (Schizogalesus) silvestrii var. nigricornis Nixon, 1930: 401

Notton, David G., 2014, A catalogue of the types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London, European Journal of Taxonomy 75, pp. 1-123 : 92

Galesus (Schizogalesus) silvestrii var. nigricornis Nixon, 1930: 401 , 412.

Valid name

Coptera mosselensis nom. nov.

Summary of types

Syntype ♂, BMNH number 9.658. Syntypes 3 ♂♂.

Primary type data

Type; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / Dec. 1921; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1922-25; Galesus / silvestrii Kieff. / var. nigricornis / Nixon (syntype ♂). Paratype; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / 18-30. xi.1921; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1922-2; Galesus / silvestrii Kieff. / var. nigricornis / Nixon (syntypes 2♂♂). Paratype; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / 5-31.vii.1921; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1921-315; Galesus / silvestrii Kieff. / var. nigricornis / Nixon (syntype ♂).

Type locality

South Africa, Western Cape Province, Mossel Bay.

Remarks

There are four males agreeing with Nixon’s description and labelled by him as Galesus silvestrii v. nigricornis . Of these, one is labelled as “type” and rest as “ paratype ”; however, since neither a unique holotype or lectotype has yet been fixed, all of the type series is syntypic (Article 73.2). All syntypes are mounted on cards and are entire. This taxon is not conspecific with Coptera silvestrii ; as well as the characters given by Nixon 1930, it differs also in the shape of the frontal projections (outer angle forming a longer, more acute projection in silvestrii ) and in the size of the lateral fovea on the scutellar disc (larger in nigricornis , approaching the size of the basal scutellar fovea) and should be given the rank of species. Galesus (Schizogalesus) silvestrii var. nigricornis Nixon, 1930 is permanently invalid as a junior primary homonym of Galesus (G.) foersteri var. nigricornis Kieffer, 1911 and no other name appears to be available for it, so it is given a replacement name here based on the name of the type locality, Mossel Bay.