Amblyjoppa maculiceps Cameron 1907

Broad, Gavin R., 2021, Taxonomic changes in Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), and notes on certain type specimens, Zootaxa 4941 (4), pp. 511-541 : 526

12. Amblyjoppa maculiceps Cameron 1907

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Current combination. junior synonym of Amblyjoppa sulcata (Cameron 1906) ( Ichneumonidae : Ichneumoninae ) ( Heinrich 1968a).

Material examined. Amblyjoppa maculiceps Cameron 1907 ♂ holotype, NHMUK, Myanmar, Tenasserim, Salween Valley : ‘Holotype’; ‘Holotype’; ‘ Middle Tenasserim. Salween Valley 7.94 C.T. Bingham’; ‘Cameron Coll. 1909-182.; ‘ Amblyjoppa maculiceps Cam. Type NO CM Tenasserim. ’; ‘ B.M.Type Hym. 3b.2132’; ‘ NHMUK010635205 ’.

Comments. The holotype male is in NHMUK (3b.2132; NHMUK010635205), not lost as reported by Townes et al. (1961) and repeated in Yu et al. (2016). Heinrich (1968a) synonymised A. maculiceps under A. sulcata , having discovered and examined the holotype, and noted that this is an unusually dark specimen of A. sulcata . Claude Morley crossed out ‘type’ on Cameron’s label and wrote ‘no’, but the specimen and data perfectly match Cameron’s (1907) description, except that the antennae are now missing.

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FIGURE 12. Amblyjoppa maculiceps Cameron 1907 holotype male (NHMUK010635205), dorsal habitus, labels inset; scale bar = 5 mm.