Pachyneuron ferrierei Delucchi (Pteromalidae), 1953

Baur, Hannes, 2001, The Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea, Ichneumonoidea, Platygastroidea) described by Vittorio Delucchi: an annotated catalogue, Journal of Natural History 35 (1), pp. 55-125 : 100

Pachyneuron ferrierei Delucchi (Pteromalidae)

Pachyneuron ferrieÁrei Delucchi, 1953b: 2. Holotype m, Switzerland: ZuÈrich, SeegraÈben ( VD [examined]).

Material. HOLOTYPE m (cp, ¯agella beyond ®rst segment and left mesotarsus partly lacking) labelled` PACHYNEURON ferrieri [sic] n. sp. V. Delucchi det. ’51; ex p. CREMIFANIA nigrocellulata Cz. V. Delucchi leg.; SeegraÈben ( CH) 22.V.1951; TYPE [red]’.

PARATYPES, IRSN: 3 m (cp, mp) .

Remarks. The`type’ was said to be deposited at the CIBC (1953b: 8) but actually remained in Delucchi’s private collection as stated later by him (1955b: 137). Delucchi mentioned four paratypes deposited at the IRSN, but only three were available for examination. The missing paratype is probably among the specimens found under this name in Delucchi’s collection though at the time this can not be determined. That material consists of four females and 14 males (cp, mp) and nine slides (sc) with parts of at least three specimens. It is likely that some of the latter have been illustrated though I am unable to recognize them properly from the ®gures.

Status. Pachyneuron vitodurense Delucchi ( Delucchi, 1955b: 137, nom. n.).