Telenomus tetratomus ( Thomson, 1860 )

Awad, Jessica, Zimmermann, Dominique & Talamas, Elijah, 2024, A photographic type catalogue of Platygastroidea (Insecta, Hymenoptera) in the Natural History Museum Vienna, European Journal of Taxonomy 938, pp. 1-58 : 37

Telenomus tetratomus ( Thomson, 1860)

Phanurus tetratomus Thomson, 1860: 174 . Type locality: Sweden, Ringsjön.

Telenomus bombycis Mayr, 1879: 701–702 , 711. Type locality: Austria, Vienna.

Telenomus gracilis Mayr, 1879: 701 , 713. Type locality: Germany?

Telenomus verticillatus Kieffer, 1917: 342–343 . Type locality: Denmark.

Phanurus gracilis – Brues 1908: 5.

Telenomus tetratomus – Kieffer 1912: 28. — Kozlov 1967: 362, 370, 374 (lectotype designation). Prophanurus gracilis – Kieffer 1912: 49, 57.

Prophanurus bombycis – Kieffer 1912: 55, 60.

Telenomus bombycis – Kozlov 1967: 362 (lectotype designation).

Telenomus gracilis – Kozlov 1967: 362 (lectotype designation).

Telenomus verticillatus – Kozlov 1967: 362. — Szabó 1978: 220, 223 (lectotype designation). Asolcus bombycis – Szabó 1976: 177, 186.

Material examined

Lectotype of Telenomus bombycis Mayr [ AUSTRIA] • 1 ♀; NHMW-HYM#0005384 .

Paralectotype of Telenomus bombycis Mayr [ AUSTRIA] • 1 ♀; NHMW-HYM#0006885 .

Lectotype of Telenomus gracilis Mayr

[ GERMANY] • 1 ♂; O. Hofmann leg.; [ Macrothylacia rubi eggs]; NHMW-HYM#0005403 .

Paralectotypes of Telenomus gracilis Mayr

[ AUSTRIA] • 4 specimens; Wachtl leg.; [ Macrothylacia rubi eggs]; NHMW .

Remarks

The male lectotype of T. bombycis designated by Szabó (1976) is invalid, having been published after Kozlov (1967). Numerous additional specimens of T. gracilis (mounted on 13 separate corks) are labeled “G. Mayr, Type”.