Diapria mellea Ashmead in Riley, Ashmead & Howard, 1894: 251

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 : 13-14

Diapria mellea Ashmead in Riley, Ashmead & Howard, 1894: 251 .

Valid name

Trichopria mellea (Ashmead in Riley, Ashmead & Howard, 1894) .

Summary of types

Syntypes 2 ♀♀, ♂.

Primary type data

St. Vincent / W.I./ H.H. Smith/ 158; Diapria / mellea/ ♀ Ashm.; W.Indies/ 99-331 (syntype ♀). St. Vincent / W.I./ H.H. Smith/ 158; W.Indies/ 99-331 (syntype ♀). Windward side/ St. Vincent, W.I./ H.H. Smith; Diapria / mellea/ ♂ Ashm.; W.Indies/ 99-331 (syntype ♂).

Type locality

West Indies, St Vincent.

Remarks

This species was described from three females and two males, of which two females and one male were found. The female syntype with Ashmead’s determination label is mounted on a card point and is entire. The other female syntype is mounted on a card point and is missing most of the antennae. The male

syntype was glued to a micropin, and has evidently fallen off and been reglued on the same micropin at some point, so that the tip of the left antenna and tips of some of the legs are glued separately.