Lamprotatus cupreus 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 : 86

Lamprotatus cupreus Delucchi (Pteromalidae)

Lamprotatus cupreus Delucchi, 1953a: 202 . Holotype m, Czech Republik: Moravia, Weisskirchen (NMW [examined]).

Material. HOLOTYPE m (cp) labelled`Weisskirchen MaÈhren; TYPE [red]; LAMPROTATUS cupreus n. V. Delucchi det.’.

Remarks. Delucchi described the female and stated` Type im Nat. Museum Wien.’ but did not specify the number of specimens he had.

Delucchi (1955a: 12) separated Lamprotatus cupreus , ornatus Delucchi , rusticus Delucchi , and splendens Westwood by the colour of the body and the shape and sculpture of the scutellum, propodeum, and petiole. Close examination of about 100 females and more than 50 males of splendens from all over Northern and Central Europe ( BMNH, ETHZ, MHNG, MZL, NMBE, VD, ZB) revealed that the characters given by Delucchi lie within the boundaries of a single species, splendens . A good summary of the variability of the propodeum and the petiole of that species is given by Graham (1969: 239) under rusticus and ornatus . It is likely that Delucchi was misled by the scarce material at hand, i.e. he apparently had only one specimen of each of his`new’ species and only a very few of splendens .

Status. Junior synonym of Lamprotatus (Lamprotatus) splendens Westwood syn. n.