Ceraphron nigrelliceps Kieffer, 1907

Trietsch, Carolyn, Mikó, István & Deans, Andrew R., 2019, A photographic catalog of Ceraphronoidea types at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN), with comments on unpublished notes from Paul Dessart, European Journal of Taxonomy 502, pp. 1-60 : 27

Ceraphron nigrelliceps Kieffer, 1907

Fig. 14

Ceraphron Nigrelliceps Kieffer, 1907b: 247 , ♀. NHMUK, MNHN.

Calliceras nigrelliceps – Kieffer 1914c: 72, 82. Generic transfer, description, keyed.

Ceraphron nigrelliceps – Kelner-Pillault 1958: 149. Type information. –– Masner 1965: 13. Type information.

Material examined

Syntype

FRANCE • ♀; “ Bitche ” ( Kieffer 1907b: 247); MNHN EY22476 .

Distribution

Palearctic.

Comments

Kieffer (1907b) only described the female of this species. The female specimen at the MNHN appears to have been collected at the university in Bitche where Kieffer used to teach, and subsequently donated to the MNHN ( Kelner-Pillault 1958). The specimen (MNHN EY22476) is point mounted and in good condition.

Dessart left a label on the specimen in 1966 indicating that it is actually Ceraphron pedes Förster, 1861 but never officially synonymized it according to Johnson & Musetti (2004). There is a second female specimen at the Natural History Museum in London (NHMUK010812034) that Dessart viewed in 1965 and also identified as Ceraphron pedes Förster, 1861 . It is unclear why Dessart never published this. Both the NHMUK and MNHN specimens were collected by P. Cameron and have determination labels from Kieffer, and are presumably syntypes. Dessart labeled the type at the NHMUK as a syntype, but the type at the MNHN still bears a holotype label.

Figures

Fig. 14. Ceraphron nigrelliceps Kieffer, 1907, syntype, ♀ (MNHN EY22476). A. Dorsal view. B. Labels. C. Frontal view. D. Lateral view.