Notes on types of Australian Chartocerus Motschulsky (Hymenoptera: Signiphoridae)
Author
Molin, Ana Dal
Author
Woolley, James B.
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Journal of Natural History
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Chartocerus hebes
Girault, 1929
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EOL taxon ID: 848102
(
Figure 8
; DOI:10.5281/zenodo.3893739)
Girault (1929)
, as
Matritia hebes
(original description).
Dahms (1984
, p. 682): notes on
type
material.
Figure 7.
Chartocerus funeralis
(Girault)
, holotype ♀, Queensland Museum Type Hy 771. (a) habitus; (b) head and antennae; (c) fore and hind wings; (d) antenna; (e) head and mesosoma; (f) metasoma.
Figure 8.
Chartocerus hebes
(Girault)
, Lectotype ♀, Queensland Museum Type HY 235. (a) habitus; (b) head; (c) fore and hind wings; (d) part of antenna; (e) mesosoma; (f) metasoma.
Type material.
LECTOTYPE
female
[here designated
]:
QM
T4416
, slide, with 1 female (‘Hy.235 |
Matritia hebes Girault
| also wing ♀ cotype |
Ent. Div. Dep. Ag. & Stk.
, Qld. 4416’)
.
PARALECTOTYPES
:
5 females
.
In the original description, Girault mentions ‘three females from spider eggs in a leafnest, Tasmania’ (
Girault 1929
, p. 311), but based on the labels and the fact the
QM
specimens are also labelled as ‘cotypes’,
Dahms (1984)
indicated the type series was actually composed of six specimens, considered
syntypes
. He reported on material at two institutions: 1 slide at
SAM
containing
3 females
(Label: ‘
TYPE
|
Matritia hebes Girault
| type
♀
S. Aus. Mus. Ent. Div. Dep. Ag. & Stk., Qld.’), plus 1 card and 1 slide labelled as cotypes at
QM
. The card contains
2 females
and a glue spot where a third specimen (likely the slide one) was attached, labelled ‘
Tasmania
|| From eggs of spider in leaf nest || 4416 ||
Matritia hebes Girault
| Cotype
♀
’s |
T
246546 (left),
T
246547 (center)’, and the data from the
QM
material matches the original description. The slide-mounted female at
QM
(
T
4416) is here designated as
lectotype
, and the slide has been labelled accordingly.
Description.
Female
. Body dark, legs also dark, but posterior part of fore leg and apical part of metatibia lighter, tarsi yellowish. Wing infuscation differs from other species of
Chartocerus
because the apical part is darker than the basal part, with darkened areas extending below the stigmal vein. Head round in frontal view with deep punctations along inner margin of eyes, scattered on face and genae. Scape about 3× as long as wide, pedicel about 2× as long as wide, ring segments in ratios of 4:2:2:1, clava about 5× as long as wide. Scutellum about 1/3 of length of scutum. Fore wing with 2 setae on submarginal vein, 1 costal seta, 6 setae on marginal vein. Basitarsus of mid leg about 1/3 of length of mid leg. The propodeum and Mt1 were not cleared well enough in this preparation to be visualised; the same applies to the setation of the mesoscutum and scutellum.