Anastatus aliberti 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 : 460-462

Anastatus aliberti Risbec, 1951

Anastatus Aliberti Risbec, 1951a: 197-200 . Original description, ♀, Ivory Coast, Abengourou.

Anastatus aliberti – Risbec 1955: 218-219 (senior synonym of Paravignalia hemipterae Risbec, 1951 ). — Hedqvist 1970: 430-431 (catalogued). — Herting 1971: 90, 95, 97, 103 (catalogued). — Bouček 1976b: 349 (invalid lectotype designation, ICZN Art. 74.5).

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Anastatus (Anastatus) aliberti Risbec, 1951 n. stat. [new subgeneric status].

TYPE MATERIAL. — MNHN.14.22. Lectotype ♀ (here designated), one ♀ paralectotype, and one♂ not designated as paralectotype, all dry mounted under one coverslip, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ex ω Homoeocerus / Abengourou/ Alibert/ 604/ Anastatus Aliberti Risbec ” and “ LECTOTYPE / one ♀ designated/ by Boucek/ (1976, p. 349/ (Gibson, 1991)”.

MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.5. Two ♀ paralectotypes, dry mounted under one coverslip, in good condition, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus / aliberti . v. bruniptera [in a different ink]/ Risbec/ ex ponte punaise/ cacaoyer/ XXX Abengourou/ F Dagatiguy”.

OTHER MATERIAL. — MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.2. Slide labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus / Aliberti. Risbec/ ex ω Homoeocerus / s- cacaoyer./ Abengourou/ H. Alibert” [see under Paravignalia hemipterae ].

MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.3. Slide labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus / ( Paravignalia )/ hemipterae [overwritten in a different ink by:] Aliberti Risbec / ex ω. Reduvidae [sic]/ Bambey/ Risbec” [see under Paravignalia hemipterae ].

MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.4. Slide labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus Aliberti Risbec / ♂./ ex ω Hotea / subfasciata. / Garoua I. 55/ Descamps. 223” [see under Paravignalia hemipterae ]. REMARKS

The lectotype was selected by Bouček (1976b) from one of the two specimen on slide MNHN.14.22. Unfortunately Bouček (1976b) didn’t provide any character by which the female he selected as lectotype could be distinguished from the second one, so it was not unambiguously selected. Therefore, his designation is not valid according to ICZN Art. 74.5, and the female in the middle of slide MNHN.14.22 is here designated as lectotype of Anastatus aliberti . The lectotype female is not contorted, is entire except for missing fl8 and the clava of the left antenna, has the wings folded on the dorsum, and both eyes are collapsed. The paralectotype female has the right antenna broken off beyond fl1, both fore wings are in an upward position and with the apices folded, and only the left eye is collapsed.

Besides the two females, slide MNHN.14.22 contains one male mentioned also by Risbec (1955). The male has the antenna with a very long clava and short, transverse flagellomeres (second type of antennal structure described by Gibson [1995]). One antenna is broken off but there is a clava glued with Canada balsam next to the coverslip. The head and mesosoma are mostly dark green, with intense blue and purple luster on the mesopleura and hind coxa. The fore femur is darkened with metallic luster on the outer surface and the fore tibia is yellow, the mid femur is dark and the mid tibia slightly darkened distally, and the hind femur and tibia are entirely darkened; all tarsi have yellowish basal segments, progressively darkened toward the last tarsomere. This short description is provided because this male could be the other sex of A. aliberti , described from females, and because Paravignalia hemipterae Risbec, 1951 , described from males, was placed in synonymy with A. aliberti by Risbec (1955) and this was followed by Hedqvist (1970). Specimens on slides ORSTOM.2.2 to 2.4, although labeled as Anastatus aliberti , contain type material belonging to Paravignalia hemipterae Risbec, 1951 and are treated below under this name.

Slide ORSTOM.2.5 contains two Anastatus female specimens similar with those on slide MNHN.14.22. Although labeled as aliberti v. bruniptera , this seems to be a later addition to the label, so they actually are the last two syntypes mentioned in the original description of A. aliberti (reared from eggs on cacao tree).

Anastatus aliberti var. bruniptera

Risbec, 1951

Anastatus Aliberti var. bruniptera Risbec, 1951a: 200 . Original description, ♀, Ivory Coast, Abengourou.

Anastatus bruniptera – Risbec 1951a: 251, 252 (as cited in index). Anastatus aliberti var. bruniptera – Risbec 1951b: 1112 (biology). — Hedqvist 1970: 431 (catalogued).

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Synonym of Anastatus (Anastatus) aliberti Risbec, 1951 n. syn.

TYPE MATERIAL. — MNHN.14.23. Five ♀ syntypes, dry mounted under one coverslip, in good condition except one with head detached, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “323c. Dagatiguy/ ex ponte s- cacao./ Abengourou/ Anastatus Aliberti / Risbec/ var. bruniptera / Risbec”.

NON TYPE MATERIAL. — MNHN.14.24. Eight headless females and two heads dry mounted under one coverslip plus four parasitized eggs glued to the slide with Canada balsam, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus Aliberti / bruniptera Risbec / 588c Abengourou/ Dagatiguy”.

OTHER MATERIAL. — MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.5. Slide labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus / aliberti . v. bruniptera [in a different ink]/ Risbec/ ex ponte punaise/ cacaoyer/ XXX Abengourou/ F Dagatiguy” [see Remarks under Anastatus aliberti ].

REMARKS

This taxon was described as a variety (“variété” and “n.v.”) of Anastatus aliberti ( Risbec 1951a) and on subsequent pages listed in an index as “ Anastatus bruniptera n. sp., n. var. ” (p. 251) or simply as Anastatus bruniptera (p. 252) (see Remarks under Neanastatus tenuis var. bicolor ). Risbec (1951b) published again “ Anastatus aliberti bruniptera n. v. ” but without description.

Slide MNHN.14.23 contains five female syntypes. The five females are clearly conspecific, so at the moment there is no need for a lectotype designation ; they are conspecific with the lectotype of A. aliberti . The specimens on slide MNHN.14.24 are most likely the eight specimens mentioned by Risbec (1951b) later, in the first addition to his 1951 monograph and if so, they are not part of the original type series .