Data-rich description of a new genus of praying mantid egg parasitoids, Lasallegrion gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Torymidae: Podagrionini), with a re-examination of Podagrion species of Australia and New Caledonia
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Janšta, Petr
Author
Delvare, Gérard
Author
Baur, Hannes
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Wipfler, Benjamin
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Peters, Ralph S.
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Journal of Natural History
2020
2020-09-23
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9
755
790
journal article
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10.1080/00222933.2020.1778112
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1464-5262
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Podagrion beneficium
Girault, 1915
Podagrion beneficium
Girault, 1915
[243]: 289–290
. QLD: Gordonvale.
Bouček (1988)
: 140
.
Material examined:
1 ♀
lectotype
(card, designated herein),
USNM
; labelled:
Podagrion beneficium
, Nr
. 15,361,
Cotype, Nelson near Cairns, N.
Queensland
,
Australia
.
2 ♀♀
,
1 ♂
paralectotypes
(card, designated herein),
QMB
: labelled:
Podagrion beneficium
, Hy
. 1170, E. C.D. 1982.
1 ♀
paralectotype
(slide, designated herein),
QMB
; labelled:
Podagrion beneficum
♀ Type, 5100, varitarsus Gir.
,
from mantid ootheca
, 5103, Type ♀, loc. Kuranda, N.Q.
Remarks. The single female specimen from USNM is card-mounted and partially fragmented. No fragments are missing, they are all glued to the same card. This specimen is designated here as
lectotype
. The two female specimens from QMB are mounted on one card, one specimen is complete and in good condition, the other specimen is fragmented and lacks head and metasoma. The male specimen from QMB is cardmounted and lacks the head including antennae. The slide from QMB contains two coverslips. One square and larger coverslip contain an undescribed species of
Podagrion
(
Dahms 1983
)
(two females and one male), and one small complete circular coverslip contains a fragmented head and two incomplete antennae (one fragmented) of
P. beneficum
paralectotype
. All examined material of
P. beneficium
belongs to the genus
Podagrion
.