Platygaster pedasus Walker, 1835

Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28), pp. 1651-1703 : 1685

Platygaster pedasus Walker, 1835

England: Barnet, Friern Barnet , 1 female, 1 October 1977, Farooqi, S.I. ( BMNH) ; Oxfordshire, Ipsden , 1 female, 22 June 1975, Noyes, J.S. ( BMNH) ; Richmond upon Thames, Richmond Park , 1 female, 14 August 1982, Noyes, J.S. ( BMNH) ; Surrey, Horsley , 2 females, 31 August 1930, Nixon, G.E.J. ( BMNH) ; Torbay, Torquay district , 1 female, August 1929, Nixon, G.E.J. ( BMNH) ; West Berkshire, Berkshire Downs, Streatley , 1 female, 26 July 1975, Noyes, J.S. ( BMNH) .

Scotland: Perth and Kinross, Rannoch Forest , 1 female, 13 July 1977, Noyes, J.S., Rogers, L. and Huddleston, T. ( BMNH) .

Recorded from near London by Walker (1835), and from Ireland by Buhl and O’Connor (2009). Addition to Vlug’s (1985) description: Head and mesoscutum dull, finely sculptured; occiput finely transversely striated to outer limits of lateral ocelli, striae separated from these by a distance equal to width of ocelli.