Taxonomic changes in Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), and notes on certain type specimens
Author
Broad, Gavin R.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-03-10
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2.
Cyclophatnus flavus
Cameron 1910
(
Fig. 2
)
Current combination.
Gyroneuron flavum
(
Cameron 1910
)
new combination
(
Braconidae
:
Rogadinae
).
Gyroneuron testaceator
Watanabe 1934
:
new synonymy
Material examined.
Cyclophatnus flavus
♀
holotype
,
NHMUK
, Darjeeling,
India
: ‘Danjiling [sic]’; ‘
Cyclophatnus flavus Cam.
Darjiling’; ‘P. Cameron Coll. 1914-110’; ‘
♀
Cyclophatnus flavus
Cameron, 1910
C. van Achterberg, 1979
Holotype’; ‘
C. flavus
B.M. TYPE HYM 3C.1821’; ‘
NHMUK
010634938’.
Gyroneuron testaceator
♀
holotype
,
SDEI
,
Taiwan
: ‘DEI-GISHym 10624’; ‘
Gyroneuron testaceator Wat.
det. Belokobylskij ‘90’; ‘
Gyroneuron
♀
testaceator Watanabe
Type’; ‘Coll. DEI Eberswalde’; ‘Holotypus’; ‘Gyroneuronella
n. sp.
’; ‘Kankau (Koshun) Formosa H. Sauter V+.1912’.
Cameron (1910)
described the genus
Cyclophatnus
and its one included species,
Cyclophatnus flavus
, in the
Macrocentrinae
and it has remained classified as such ever since. Somebody had added the name
Gyroneuron
above
Cyclophatnus
in the
NHMUK
collection and I can confirm that the
holotype
of
Cyclophatnus flavus
(3c.1821,
NHMUK
010634938;
Fig. 2
) is a species of
Gyroneuron
, of the subfamily
Rogadinae
.
Gyroneuron
Kokujev
=
Cyclophatnus
Cameron
,
syn. nov.
;
Gyroneuron flavum
(Cameron)
is a
new combination
. I was able to compare the specimen with photographs of the
holotype
of
Gyroneuron testaceator
Watanabe
1934
in
SDEI
, one of only two previously described species of
Gyroneuron
, and they appear to be conspecific, so
G. testaceator
is a junior synonym of
G. flavum
,
syn. nov.
Gyroneuron flavum
has a wide range, over
China
,
India
(type locality of
Cyclophatnus flavus
),
Taiwan
and
Vietnam
(
Chen & He 1997
;
Long & Belokobylskij 2004
). The
holotype
status of
NHMUK
010634938 was checked by van Achterberg in 1979. The published type depository was Berlin (‘Royal Berlin Zoological Museum’) (
Cameron 1910
), but the specimen was acquired by
NHMUK
from Peter Cameron in 1914. It should probably be returned to Berlin.