Synopeas maximum Awad & Talamas (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae): a new species of parasitoid associated with soybean gall midge, Resseliella maxima Gagne (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) Author Melotto, Gloria Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 1980 Folwell Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55108 USA Author Awad, Jessica https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6441-4016 State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191, Stuttgart, Germany Author Talamas, Elijah J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1048-6345 Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, 1911 SW 34 th St, Gainesville FL 32608, USA Author Koch, Robert L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4853-3573 Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 1980 Folwell Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55108 USA Author Lindsey, Amelia R. I. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3354-7419 Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 1980 Folwell Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55108 USA alindsey@umn.edu text Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2023 2023-05-02 96 181 205 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.102865 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.102865 1314-2607-96-181 0C822CA78586448F83A8279214B58049 279ADF25EE115E688F8EC5B8BDC58C0A Synopeas rhanis (Walker) Fig. 4 Platygaster Rhanis Walker, 1836: 225 (original description). Platygaster Acco Platygaster Acco Walker, 1836: 229 (original description. Synonymized by Vlug (1985) ); Vlug 1985 : 209 (junior synonym of Synopeas rhanis (Walker)). Synopeas Acco (Walker): Marshall 1873 : 19 (generic transfer); Kieffer 1914 : 427 (description). Synopeas Rhanis (Walker): Marshall 1873 : 19 (generic transfer); Kieffer 1914 : 341 (description of adult and immature stages). Synopeas rhanis (Walker): Kieffer 1906 : 134 (description); Kieffer 1926 : 668, 676 (description, keyed); Masner 1965 : 142 (type information); Vlug and Graham 1984 : 130 (lectotype designation); Vlug 1985 : 209 (description of type, keyed); Vlug 1995 : 81 (cataloged, type information); Buhl 1999 : 39 (keyed); MacGown and Evans 2003 : 6 (description); O'Connor , Nash, Notton and Fergusson 2004: 24 (catalog of Irish species); Buhl and Notton 2009 : 1698 (cataloged, distribution); Buhl and O'Connor 2010 : 14 (distribution). Synopeas acco (Walker): Kieffer 1926 : 669, 683 (description, keyed); Vlug and Graham 1984 : 129 (lectotype designation); Vlug 1985 : 209 (description of type, keyed); Vlug 1995 : 75 (type information); O'Connor , Nash, Notton and Fergusson 2004: 24 (type information, catalog of Irish species). Synopeas ? Synopeas rhanis (Walker): Buhl and Choi 2006 : 133, 135 (keyed, distribution in Korea).