Macreupelmus ovicida Risbec, 1951

Fusu, Lucian, Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, Siebold, Cedric & Villemant, Claire, 2015, Revision of the Eupelmidae Walker, 1833 described by Jean Risbec. Part 1: the slide mounted specimens housed at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, Zoosystema 37 (3), pp. 457-480 : 474-475

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2015n3a3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5157113

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scientific name

Macreupelmus ovicida Risbec, 1951
status

 

Macreupelmus ovicida Risbec, 1951 View in CoL

Macreupelmus ovicida Risbec, 1951a: 227-229 View in CoL . Original description, ♀ ♂, Ivory Coast, Abengourou ; 1951b: 1111-1112 (variability). — Hedqvist 1970: 437 (catalogued).

Anastatus ovicida View in CoL – Bouček 1976b: 350 (change of combination).

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Anastatus (Anastatus) ovicida (Risbec, 1951) View in CoL n. stat. [new subgeneric status].

TYPE MATERIAL. — General collection. Lectotype ♀ (here designated), point mounted, labeled in Gibson’s handwriting: “ Anastatus / Macreupelmus / ovicida Risbec ; ex w orthoptères/ sur cacaoyer/ Abengourou/ F. Dagatiguy; Lectotype / (Gibson, 1991)”.

Two ♀ and one ♂ paralectotypes, point mounted, labeled in Gibson’s handwriting: “ Macreupelmus / ovicida ”.

MNHN.14.62. Empty slide labeled in Risbec’s handwriting:“ Anastatus / Macreupelmus / ovicida Risbec / ex ω orthoptères/ s- cacaoyer/ Abengourou/ F. Dagatiguy” and in Gibson’s handwriting: “ 3 ♀ 1 ♂ point-mounted/ by G. Gibson/ 1991”.

MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.45. Fifteen ♀ and two ♂ paralectotypes, dry mounted in a wooden slide (two of the females mentioned in the original description are missing), slide labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “N° 635/ Alibert/ ex ω orthoptères/ Abengourou; Macreupelmus / ovicida / Risbec” .

OTHER MATERIAL. — MNHN.14.63. Wooden slide with host’s eggs, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ω. orthoptères/ parasitées/ Alibert/ 635/ Abengourou/ mis[?] par.”.

REMARKS

The lectotype selected by G. Gibson and four syntypes are point-mounted. This lectotype designation is validated here. According to Bouček (1976b), the species clearly belongs to Anastatus and this is confirmed here.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

ORSTOM

Office de la Recherche scientifique et Technique Outre-mer

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eupelmidae

Genus

Macreupelmus

Loc

Macreupelmus ovicida Risbec, 1951

Fusu, Lucian, Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, Siebold, Cedric & Villemant, Claire 2015
2015
Loc

Anastatus ovicida

BOUCEK Z. 1976: 350
1976
Loc

Macreupelmus ovicida

HEDQVIST K. J. 1970: 437
RISBEC J. 1951: 229
1951
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