A catalogue of the types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London
Author
Notton, David G.
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2014
2014-02-26
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Hoplopria curvispina
Cameron, 1913: 136
.
Valid name
Spilomicrus curvispina
(
Cameron, 1913
)
.
Summary of
types
Syntype
♂
, BMNH number 9.918.
Primary type data
Type; 359; P.Cameron Coll./ 1914-110;
Hoplopria
/ curvispina/ Cam.
Type
/ Br.
Guiana
.
Type locality
Guyana
(as
British Guiana
).
Remarks
This species was described from an unspecified number of males. One male was found. Reference to the “male” on p. 135 could equally mean the male sex, so is not clear evidence that there was only one specimen, and the type is treated here as a sole surviving
syntype
. The
syntype
is mounted on a card, with the head reglued upside-down, the left hind wing has become detached and is now stuck to the scapes, and the left antenna beyond a6 and parts of the left fore and mid tarsi are missing. The name
curvispina
does not change its ending in the new combination since it can be considered based on the Latin noun
spina
, meaning a thorn (Article 31.2.2).