Ophion unicolor Smith, 1874

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Ophion unicolor Smith, 1874; primary homonym of Ophion unicolor Smith, 1860 .

Ophion smithii Dalla Torre, 1901 in Dalla Torre (1902); replacement name for Ophion unicolor Smith, 1874 .

Paniscus gracilipes formosus Morley, 1913a syn. nov.

Netelia (Apatagium) laevis (Cameron, 1905b); Kaur and Jonathan (1979)

Netelia (Apatagium) smithii; Konishi (2010)

Netelia (Amebachia) yoshimatsui Konishi, 2010 syn. nov.

Netelia (Amebachia) smithii; comb. rev.

Taxonomic history and taxonomy. This specimen is the holotype of both Ophion unicolor Smith, 1874 and Paniscus gracilipes formosus Morley, 1913a . This is not the

same as Paniscus unicolor, 1874, the current combination of which is Netelia (Netelia) unicolor (Smith, 1874) . Claude Morley added ‘NOT’ and ‘CM’ to the red BM type label. Morley seems not to have been aware that Frederick Smith published Ophion unicolor and Paniscus unicolor as distinct taxa; presumably Morley thought that 3b.1521 is not the type of Ophion unicolor on the basis that this is a different species from Paniscus unicolor, which is correct, but that is because these are separate taxa. The list of synonymy in Townes et al. (1965) seems to be correct. As Ophion unicolor Smith, 1874, is a junior homonym of Ophion unicolor Smith, 1860, Dalla Torre (1902) proposed the replacement name Ophion smithii Dalla Torre, 1901 . Konishi (1986) treats ‘ smithii’ as belonging to the subgenus Apatagium Enderlein, 1912 (of the tristrigata species-group), but the description of the clypeus (supposed to be apically rounded, but is truncate in the type) and of the genitalia indicates that this is incorrect. The correct name for ‘ smithii ’ sensu Konishi is presumably Amebachia coreana Uchida, 1928b (= Netelia (Apatagium) coreana (Uchida) stat. rev.).

Paniscus gracilipes formosus was synonymised under Netelia laevis (Cameron, 1905b) by Kaur and Jonathan (1979). However, the holotype of Paniscus laevis (NHMUK type 3b.1537) belongs in Apatagium (as published by Konishi (1986)) whereas the holotype of unicolor and formosus is an Amebachia Uchida, 1928b, judging by head morphology and male genitalia – the hind legs are broken so the important character of the tarsal claw pectination protruding beyond the apex of the claw in Apatagium is unverifiable. The genitalia match the illustration of Netelia (Amebachia) yoshimatsui Konishi, 2010 syn. nov. (cf. Konishi 2010: 221, Figures 33–36), particularly the distinctive, tapering paramere; Netelia smithii (= Ophion unicolor and Paniscus gracilipes formosus) is therefore a senior synonym of N. yoshimatsui .

Current taxonomy. Primary homonym, valid name: Netelia (Amebachia) smithii (Dalla Torre, 1901) comb. rev. ( Ichneumonidae: Tryphoninae: Phytodietini).

Type number. Type 3b.1521. Specimen # NHMUK010881040

Type status. Holotype.

Sex. Male.

Type locality. Hyôgo Prefecture, Honshû, Japan.

Label data. First label, ‘NOT/ Type /C.M.’ (round label, with red margin; first and third lines handwriting and second line printed); second label, ‘B.M. TYPE /HYM./3.b.1521.’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third line handwriting); third label, ‘Hiogo/ Japan.’ (square label; first line handwriting and second line printed); fourth label, ‘74/16’ (round label; handwriting); fifth label, ‘ Ophion /unicolor/ Type Smith.’ (square label; handwriting); sixth label, ‘ = Paniscus ♂ /gracilipes/ var. formosus /Morley 1913/TYPE’ (square label; handwriting); seventh label, ‘seems to be a/senior synonym of/ N. yoshimatsui Konishi /Det . G . Broad 2012’ (square label; first to third lines handwriting and fourth line printed).

Condition. Good, but missing the following: right antenna after ninth flagellomere, left antenna, fourth and fifth tarsomeres of right mid leg, right hind tarsus after second tarsomere, left hind tarsus, left fore wing.