Psilanteris nigriclavata (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 : 205-206

Psilanteris nigriclavata (Ashmead) comb. n. Figures 62-64

Opisthacantha nigriclavata Ashmead, 1905: 399 (original description); Kieffer 1926: 398 (description, keyed); Baltazar 1966: 179 (cataloged, type information, distribution).

Paratrimorus nigriclavatus (Ashmead): Masner and Muesebeck 1968: 41 (type information, generic transfer).

Anteris nigriclavata (Ashmead): Johnson 1992: 337 (cataloged, type information).

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-full.html?id=3971

Material examined.

Holotype, female, O. nigriclavata : PHILIPPINES: Metropolitan Manila Reg., Manila, no date, R. Brown, USNMENT00989029 (deposited in USNM).

Comments.

Placement of this species in the correct genus has undoubtedly been hampered by glue that obscured some of its diagnostic characters. In order to sufficiently assess the specimen it was soaked in ethanol until the glue became soft enough for removal with forceps and a fine pin to observe the skaphion and dorsal head. The specimen was then left in the remaining glue (as seen in Figs 62-64 ). The presence of a skaphion, single metascutellar spine, and absence of a postmarginal vein enable us to confidently place this species in Psilanteris .

Figures

Figures 62 - 64. Psilanteris nigriclavata, female holotype (USNMENT 0089029) 62 head, mesosoma, metasoma, lateral view 63 head and mesosoma, anterodorsal view (sk = skaphion) 64 head and mesosoma, lateral view. Scale bars in millimeters.