Galesus (Schizogalesus) difficilis Nixon, 1930: 401

Notton, David G., 2014, A catalogue of the types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London, European Journal of Taxonomy 75, pp. 1-123 : 92-93

Galesus (Schizogalesus) difficilis Nixon, 1930: 401 , 402, 412.

Valid name

Coptera difficilis ( Nixon, 1930) .

Summary of types

Syntype ♀, BMNH number 9.657. Syntype ♂, BMNH number 9.657b. Syntypes 2 ♀♀, 12 ♂♂.

Primary type data

Type; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / Febr. 1922; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1922-97; Galesus / difficilis/ 1930 Nixon/ type ♀ (syntype ♀). Paratype; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / Febr. 1922; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1922-97; Galesus / difficilis/ 1930 Nixon (syntype ♀). Paratype; Zululand/ Mtunzini/ 7.vi.1926; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1926-277; Galesus / difficilis/ 1930 Nixon (syntype ♀). Type; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1922-129; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / 1-13. iii.1922; Galesus / difficilis/ 1930 Nixon/ type ♂ (syntype ♂). Paratype; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / 1-13.iii.1922; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1922-129; Galesus / difficilis/ 1930 Nixon (syntypes 4♂♂). Paratype; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / Febr. 1922; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1922-97; Galesus / difficilis/ 1930 Nixon (syntypes 4♂♂). Paratype; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / 15-28.iii.1922; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1922-158; Galesus / difficilis/ 1930 Nixon (syntypes 3♂♂). Paratype; Umatata/ Transkei/ 18.ii-18.iii.1923; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1923-189; Galesus / difficilis/ 1930 Nixon (syntype ♂).

Type locality

South Africa, Eastern Cape Province, Transkei; KwaZulu-Natal, Mtunzini; Western Cape Province, Mossel Bay.

Remarks

There are three females and thirteen males agreeing with Nixon’s description and labelled by him as Galesus difficilis . Of these, two are labelled as “type” and the rest as “ paratype ”; however, since neither a unique holotype or lectotype has yet been fixed, all of the type series is syntypic (Article 73.2). All the male syntypes and the female syntype from Mossel Bay labelled as “ paratype ” are mounted on cards and are entire. The other female syntypes are mounted on card points and are entire.