Platygaster philinna Walker, 1835

Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28), pp. 1651-1703 : 1685-1686

Platygaster philinna Walker, 1835

= Platygaster nottoni Buhl, 1995 syn. nov.

England: Cambridgeshire, Wicken Fen, 1 female, 2 June 1976, Noyes, J.S. (BMNH); Norfolk, near Santon Downham, TL818883, 1 female, 25 June 1985, Malaise trap, heath with birch ( Betula sp. ) and pine ( Pinus sp. ), Field, J. (BMNH); Surrey, Chobham Common, 2 females, 6 June 1971, Bou C ek, Z. (BMNH); Surrey, Oxshott, 2 females, 9 July 1932, Nixon, G.E.J. (BMNH); Surrey, White Downs, near Dorking, 1 female, 31 May 1971, Bou C ek, Z. (BMNH); Surrey, Weybridge, 2 females, 2 July 1935, Nixon, G.E.J. (BMNH); Surrey, Wisley, 1 female, 18 June 1932, Nixon, G.E.J.(BMNH); Windsor and Maidenhead, Silwood Park, 1 female, 28 May 1975, Fergusson, N.D.M. (BMNH).

Ireland: Wicklow, Clara , 1 female, 4 June 1933, Stelfox, A.W. ( BMNH) .

Scotland: Perth and Kinross, Rannoch Forest , 1 female, 13 July 1977, Noyes, J.S., Rogers, L. and Huddleston, T. ( BMNH) ; Perth and Kinross, Birks of Aberfeldy , 1 female, 14 July 1977, Noyes, J.S., Rogers, L. and Huddleston, T. ( BMNH) ; Perth and Kinross, Pass of Killikrankie , 8 females, 15 July 1977, Noyes, J.S., Rogers, L. and Huddleston, T., det. Notton, 2007 ( BMNH) .

Wales: Pontypridd , Pontypridd, 3 females, 26 June 1977, Noyes, J.S. ( BMNH) .

Recorded from near London by Walker (1835). A doubtful record from England by Barnes (1935). The type material of P. nottoni differs only from the type material of P. philinna in having mesosoma slightly more elongate (about 1.8 times longer than wide versus about 1.6 times) and T2 slightly less striated. The head of this species is distinctly more transverse than the 1.4 times as wide as long stated by Vlug (1985); in fact it is 1.8–2.0 times as wide as long.