Galesus fissus Wollaston, 1858: 25

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 : 108-109

Galesus fissus Wollaston, 1858: 25 .

Valid name

Coptera fissa ( Wollaston, 1858) .

Summary of types

Syntype ♀, BMNH number 9.652. Syntypes 3 ♀♀.

Primary type data

Type; Madeira/ Wollaston/ 55.7; Galesus / fissus W. (syntype ♀). Rib. da/ Janella; Madeira/ Wollaston/ 55.7 (syntype ♀). 1462; Madeira/ Wollaston/ 55.7 (syntypes 2 ♀♀).

Type locality

Madeira.

Remarks

This species was described from at least five syntypes, since Wollaston mentions five different localities: S. Antonio da Serra; Ribeira da Janella; Feijãa de Córte; another locality at intermediate altitude; and another locality at high altitude. Not all the syntypes could be assigned to these localities with certainty; although two of them have the locality code 1462, a key to localities codes for Wollaston’s Hymenoptera has not been found. The four syntypes are mounted on cards: one is entire; one has the right hind telotarsus disarticulated; one has the right a12 missing; and the last one has the wings much torn.