Probaryconus punctatus (Ashmead) Talamas & Thompson & Cutler & Schoenberger & Cuminale & Jung & Johnson & Valerio & Smith & Haltermann & Alvarez & Schwantes & Blewer & Bodenreider & Salzberg & Luo & Meislin & Buffington, 2017

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 : 205

Probaryconus punctatus (Ashmead) comb. n. Figures 58-61

Caloteleia punctata Ashmead, 1894: 218, 221 (original description. Keyed); Ashmead 1900: 327 (distribution).

Ceratoteleia punctata (Ashmead): Kieffer 1908: 121 (generic transfer. Kieffer, in the same publication, placed this name under both Oxyteleia and Ceratoteleia ).

Oxyteleia punctata (Ashmead): Kieffer 1908: 118 (generic transfer); Kieffer 1926: 516 (description, keyed); Johnson 1992: 455 (cataloged).

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5042

Lectotype designation.

We here designate specimen USNMENT01109350 as the lectotype female of Probaryconus punctatus (Ashmead).

Material examined.

Lectotype, female, Caloteleia punctata : SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES: Saint Vincent Island, no date, H. H. Smith, USNMENT01109350 (deposited in USNM) . Paralectotype, female, Caloteleia punctata : SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES: Saint Vincent Island, no date, H. H. Smith, USNMENT01109351 (deposited in USNM) .

Comments.

Oxyteleia Kieffer has an Oriental distribution and this species does not have its most obvious diagnostic characters: a bispinose metascutellum and posteriorly directed spines derived from the axillular carinae on the lateral mesoscutellum.

Figures

Figures 58 - 61. Probaryconus punctatus, female holotype (USNMENT 01109350) 58 head, mesosoma, metasoma, ventral view 59 head, mesosoma, metasoma, lateral view 60 head and mesosoma, lateral view 61 head, anterior view. Scale bars in millimeters.