Ichneumon cursorius Smith, 1874

Shimizu, So & Broad, Gavin R., 2020, Photographic catalogue of the oldest primary types of Japanese Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), those described by Frederick Smith and Francis Walker in 1874, Journal of Natural History 54 (17), pp. 1115-1198 : 1132-1134

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scientific name	Ichneumon cursorius Smith, 1874
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Taxonomic history. Uchida (1926) transferred this species to Amblyteles Wesmael, 1845 , Heinrich (1931) then to Triptognathus Berthoumieu, 1904 , and Heinrich (1937) finally to Fileanta Cameron, 1901b . The specific name ‘ cursorius ’ was preoccupied by Zetterstedt (1838), hence, Townes et al. (1965) proposed the replacement name ‘caterythra’ for Smith’s species.

Current taxonomy. Primary homonym, valid name: Fileanta caterythra Townes, Momoi & Townes, 1965 ( Ichneumonidae : Ichneumoninae : Ichneumonini ).

Type number. Type 3b.319. Specimen # NHMUK010881023 About NHMUK

Type status. Lectotype, designated by Townes et al. (1965).

Sex. Female.

Type locality. Hyôgo Prefecture, Honshû, Japan.

Label data. First label, ‘ Type /CM’ (round label, with red margin; first line printed and second line handwriting); second label, ‘B.M. TYPE /HYM./3b.319’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third line handwriting); third label, ‘B.M. TYPE / HYM./ Ichneumon /cursorius/( Smith1874 ’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third to fifth lines handwriting); fourth label, ‘Hiogo/ Japan.’ (square label; first line handwriting and second line printed); fifth label, ‘ I. cursorius / Type ♀ Smith’ (square label; handwriting); sixth label, ‘ Amblyteles /Morley det.’ (square label; first line handwriting and second line printed).

Condition. Good, but right mid tarsus, right hind tarsus after first tarsomere lost, and right wings are broken.

Remarks. Although both sexes were described by Smith (1874), only the lectotype female can be found in NHMUK.

References

Berthoumieu V. 1904. Fam. Ichneumonidae, Subfam. Ichneumoninae Genera Insectorum Fasc. 18: 87.

Cameron P. 1901 b. LXVII. - Descriptions of seventeen new genera of Ichneumonidae from India and one from Australia. Ann Mag Nat Hist. 7: 523 - 531. doi: 10.1080 / 00222930108678510.

Heinrich GH. 1931. Zur Systematik der Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae IV. Konowia. 10: 29 - 33.

Heinrich GH. 1937. A list and some notes on the synonymy of the types of the subfamily Ichneumoninae Ashmead (Hym.) in the collections of the British Museum and the Hope Department of the Oxford University Museum. Ann Mag Nat Hist. 20: 257 - 279. doi: 10.1080 / 00222933708655342.

Smith F. 1874. Description of new species of Tenthredinidae, Ichneumonidae, Chrysididae, Formicidae etc. of Japan. Trans Entomol Soc London. 1874: 373 - 409.

Townes HK, Momoi S, Townes M. 1965. A catalogue and reclassification of the eastern Palearctic Ichneumonidae. Mem Am Entomol Inst. 5: 1 - 661.

Uchida T. 1926. Erster Beitrag zur Ichneumoniden Japans. J Faculty Agric Hokkaido Imperial Univ. 18: 43 - 173.

Wesmael C. 1845. Tentamen dispositionis methodicae. Ichneumonum Belgii. Nouveaux Mem Acad R Sci Lett et Beaux-Arts Belg. 18: 1 - 239.

Zetterstedt JW. 1838. Insecta Lapponica. Sectio secunda. Hymenoptera. Lipsiae: L. Voss; 358 - 408 pp.

Figures

Figure 11. Lectotype female of Ichneumon cursorius Smith, 1874 (= Fileanta caterythra Townes, Momoi & Townes, 1965): (a) labels (b) lateral habitus (c) head, frontal view (d) head, dorsal view (e) head, lateral view (f) metasoma, dorsal view (g) mesoscutum, dorsal view (h) scutellum and propodeum, dorsal view (i) mesosoma, lateral view (j) fore wing (k) hind wing.