Ichneumon hospitator Fabricius, 1775

Sarmiento, Carlos E., M & Sharkey, Michael, 2005, On the status of some species of Braconidae (Hymenoptera) described by J. C. Fabricius and the synonymy of Dichelosus Szépligeti with Coccygidium De Saussure, Zootaxa 1067, pp. 59-68 : 61

280. Ichneumon hospitator Fabricius, 1775

Fabricius (pg. 335) cited Nova Hollandia as the type locality of the species, which corresponds to Recife in Brazil. He mentions this species again in two publications (1793: 157) and (1804: 106). In the latter, Fabricius transferred this species to the genus Bracon but the specific part of the name was erroneously changed by the printer to hospitor ( Zimsen, 1964) . Zimsen (1964) reported two type specimens, one in the BMNH and the other deposited in the Kiel collection. Shenefelt (1970) cited Ichneumon hospitator Fabricius, 1775 and added the following text: (! London, lectotype needed. Specimen bearing “ type ” is male Agathidine. Other specimen is? [sic] Curriea male).” Curriea is a genus belonging to the Braconini (Braconinae), which is not known in the New World. Horstmann (2001) indicated that the species belongs to the Braconidae but did not comment further. The specimen in the Kiel Collection is an agathidine female that fits Fabricius´original description ( Fig. 1 ). The label attached to the specimen has the text “ hospitator mihi” ( Fig. 2 ) and it possesses all the characteristics of a Fabricius label as described by Zimsen (1964). “Mihi” means “of me” which was Fabricius’ provisional note indicating that he intended to describe the species (van Achterberg pers. com.). Therefore we designate the Kiel specimen as the lectotype. We added a label to this specimen with the following data: LECTOTYPE, Ichneumon hospitator Fabricius, 1775 , Designated by Sarmiento, C. 2004. Ichneumon hospitator belongs to the genus Coccygidium , thus, it is transferred to this genus. We consider C. hospitator to be the senior synonym of Ichneumon ornator Fabricius, 1787 . Also, we examined the holotype of Dichelosus fuscipennis Szépligeti, 1902 and concluded that this is a junior synonym of C. hospitator . See below for a discussion of the status of the genus Dichelosus .

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. 1, Lectotype of Coccygidium hospitator. 2. Label attached to the C. hospitator lectotype. 3. Lectotype of Hemibracon similator. 4. Label attached to the H. similator lectotype. 5. Lectotype of Ichneumon ornator. 6. Label attached to the I. ornator lectotype. 7. Lectotype of Coccygidium anator. 8. Label attached to the C. anator lectotype. 9. Lectotype of Coccygidium pennator. 10. Label attached to the C. pennator lectotype. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.