Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Elampus spina Dahlbom, 1854

Elampus spina: Dahlbom 1854: 41 nec Lepeletier, 1806.

Label

[♀]: Elampus spina, Lep. - Panzeri var.; Coll. Latr. France / Elampus sp. ♀ det. L.D. French.

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Elampus spina, 148, 97, 51, 5 (box 50).

Remarks.

Dahlbom (1854) described Elampus spina based on a specimen collected by Latreille and housed in the Spinola collection. Abeille (1878: 1, 2) examined one specimen which he considered as the type and he replaced the name spina Dahlbom with superbus Abeille ("nomen à changer"). The holotype described by Dahlbom is now housed in his collection in LZM. The female specimen housed in the Spinola collection cannot be considered as a type. Elampus spina is a secondary junior homonym of Elampus spina (Lepeletier) and a junior synonym of Elampus bidens ( Förster, 1853). The synonym was already recognized by various authors: Mocsáry (1889: 73), Dalla Torre (1892: 10), etc.

Current status.

Elampus bidens ( Förster, 1853) (synonymised by Mocsáry 1889: 73).