Telenomus persimilis Ashmead, 1893

Talamas, Elijah J., Thompson, Joseph, Cutler, Amy, Schoenberger, Samantha Fitzsimmons, Cuminale, Anthony, Jung, Trenton, Johnson, Norman F., Valerio, Alejandro A., Smith, Ashton B., Haltermann, Victoria, Alvarez, Elizabeth, Schwantes, Collin, Blewer, Catherine, Bodenreider, Coline, Salzberg, Annika, Luo, Pei, Meislin, Debra & Buffington, Matthew L., 2017, An online photographic catalog of primary types of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56, pp. 187-224 : 211

Telenomus persimilis Ashmead Figures 83-85

Telenomus persimilis Ashmead, 1893: 143, 150 (original description. Type lost ( Masner and Muesebeck 1968). Keyed); Brues 1916: 545, 546 (description, keyed); Masner and Muesebeck 1968: 69 (type information); Johnson 1984: 50, 63 (description, keyed); Johnson 1992: 607 (cataloged, type information).

Microphanurus persimilis (Ashmead): Kieffer 1926: 93, 107 (description, generic transfer, keyed).

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=3018

Neotype designation.

Telenomus persimilis was described from a single specimen, and in the original description Ashmead (1893) stated that he had since examined specimens from Agricultural College, Michigan, that were conspecific. Masner and Muesebeck (1968) stated that these specimens have since been used for identification of this species. We here designate one of the females from this series (USNMENT01109322) as the neotype of this species.

Material examined.

Neotype female: UNITED STATES: Michigan, 4.VIII.1901, reared from hemipteran egg USNMENT01109322 (USNM)).

Figures

Figures 83 - 84. Telenomus persimilis, female neotype (USNMENT 01109322) 83 head, mesosoma, metasoma, lateral view 84 head, anterior view 85 head and mesosoma, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters.