Elampus bidentatus Eversmann, 1857

Rosa, Paolo, Wisniowski, Bogdan & Xu, Zai-fu, 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the collection of Radoszkowski in the Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, ZooKeys 486, pp. 1-100 : 64-65

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Elampus bidentatus Eversmann, 1857

Elampus bidentatus Eversmann 1857: 548.

Type locality.

"Cepi in promont. Uralensib.".

Holotype

♀ [box 59]: Spa... Juni? [handwriting only partly readable] // Elampus bidentulus Kl. Dlbm. [handwritten by Eversmann] // brawn rounded label // red rounded label.

Remarks.

The examination of the type confirms that the name Elampus bidentatus is merely an incorrect spelling of Elampus bidentulus (Lepeletier, 1806). Eversmann listed this species as " Elampus bidentatus Klug, Dalbm". But the identification label attached to the type specimen reads " Elampus bidentulus Kl. Dlbm" in Eversmann’s handwriting. Dahlbom (1854) listed Elampus bidentulus Klug [and not bidentulus Lepeletier] in the dichotomous key (pagg.: 38, 39), in the index (pag. 406), and in the list of examined specimens (pag. 40). Eversmann was confused by this mistake. Dahlbom did not examine Lepeletier’s type and based his keys and description on a single specimen labelled by Klug as Elampus bidentulus in MNHU. The specimen matches the current interpretation of Philoctetes bidentulus (Lepeletier) ( Rosa 2006a; Rosa and Xu 2015) and the name can simply be considered an incorrect subsequent spelling.

Current status.

Philoctetes bidentulus (Lepeletier, 1806) (synonymised by Mocsary 1889: 85; transferred by Niehuis 2000).