Spilomicrus antennatus (Jurine, 1807)

Huebner, Jeremy Joshua & Chemyreva, Vasilisa, 2024, Review of German Spilomicrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Spilomicrini), Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 114515-114515 : 114515

Spilomicrus antennatus (Jurine, 1807)

Psilus antennatus Jurine, 1807: 319.

Basalys californica Ashmead, 1893. Synonymised by Masner (1991).

Eriopria nigra Kieffer, 1910. Synonymised by Notton (2004).

Eriopria rufithorax Kieffer, 1910. Synonymised by Notton (2004).

Scutellipria quinquepunctata Szabo, 1961. Synonymised by Chemyreva (2021).

Spilomicrus simplex Tomsik, 1947: 33, 34, 40. Syn. nov. Fig. 1 B, D and E

Materials

Type status: Lectotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 1061/Ent; recordedBy: P. Laurer; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 698B71B1-AA08-5BC3-BF96-06C746452B4A; Taxon: scientificName: Spilomicus simplex Tomsik, 1947; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Diapriidae; genus: Spilomicrus; specificEpithet: antennatus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Jurine, 1807); Location: continent: Europe; Identification: identifiedBy: V. Chemyreva I J. Huebner; dateIdentified: 2023; identificationRemarks: designated by Chemyreva (2021), Fig. 1B, D, E; Event: eventDate: 1946; Record Level: ownerInstitutionCode: MMBC

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.

Notes

What was already suspected by some researchers could be established using DNA barcoding of specimens of each sex (only one female was available, but numerous males). Our obtained sequences were too short to be included in the attached tree (Suppl. material 1), but a female specimen, collected at the Institute's garden in Munich was sequenced and stored in the framework of the Global Malaise trap project (project code GMGMW in BOLD) ( Sones et al. 2023). The average genetic distance in between all examined specimens was 0.27%. The common Spilomicus simplex Tomsik, that was only described as a male (Fig. 1 B, D and E) is a junior synonym of S. antennatus (Jurine), which was only described as a female (Fig. 1 C).

Figures

Figure 1. Spilomicrus antennatus. A male lateral; B lectotype S. simplex lateral; C S. antennatus female lateral; D lectotype S. simplex dorsal E corresponding labels.