Loxotropa cursitans var. alacris Kieffer, 1911b: 916

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 : 64-65

Loxotropa cursitans var. alacris Kieffer, 1911b: 916 .

Valid name

Basalys parvus Thomson, 1858 .

Summary of types

Syntype ♀, BMNH number 9.729. Syntypes 2♀♀.

Primary type data

Eccles [illeg.]; Type; 208.; Cameron Coll./ 1910-55.; cursitans/ Kieff. (syntype ♀). Cladich; 210.; Cameron Coll./ 1910-55 (syntype ♀). 212; Cameron Coll./ 1909-182 (syntype ♀).

Type locality

Scotland.

Remarks

This variety was described from an unspecified number of females. Three syntypes were found, of which the one numbered as type 9.729 had erroneously been regarded as the type of L. cursitans q.v. by Masner (1965) and Nixon (1980). All syntypes have the wings reaching the basal quarter of the metasoma, a gradually expanded triangular marginal vein, and the head not higher than long and thus agree better with Kieffer’s description of L. cursitans var. alacris . All three syntypes are mounted on cards; syntype number 212 is missing part of the left antenna and part of the left fore tarsus and the other two syntypes are entire. The synonymy of this species with Basalys parvus Thomson, 1858 , following Nixon’s (1980) interpretation of B. parvus , is confirmed here.