Platygaster mandrakae, Risbec, 1955

Notton, David G., 2010, A catalogue of the types of Platygastridae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with brief notes on the history of the collection, Zootaxa 2358, pp. 1-24 : 14

Platygaster mandrakae Risbec, 1955b: 111 , fig. 1b.

Current status. Platygaster mandrakae

Syntypes ‘3 ♀♀ = ♀; 2 3, Madagascar, Mandraka (MNHN).

Labels. G. 286/ en feuilles Maleni/ ravina/ Platygaster / mandrakae / Risbec [syntypes ♀; 2 3].

Remarks. The three syntypes are dry-mounted together on one slide; the cover slip is ringed with a clear soft resin. Risbec describes them as female, but Risbec’s figure of the antenna is clearly from a male and two of the syntypes are actually males. The head of the female is missing and the heads of both males are broken off but still present, one of them has one antenna missing.