A catalogue of the types of Platygastridae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with brief notes on the history of the collection
Author
Notton, David G.
text
Zootaxa
2010
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.275686
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275686
Platygaster pauliani
Risbec, 1953
: 334
, figs 17, 26–28.
Current status.
Platygaster pauliani
Syntypes
6 ƤƤ; 3,
Madagascar
, Manjakatompo (MNHN);
syntypes
43 ƤƤ; 4 3,
Madagascar
, Manjakatompo (lost);
syntype
3,
Madagascar
, Tsinjoarivo (MNHN);
syntype
Ƥ,
Madagascar
, Mantasoa (MNHN);
syntype
3,
Madagascar
, forest north of Anisobe (lost).
Labels. Elevage du
25. 5. 50
/ Eclos le
20–7–50
/ No. G62/ P/ galles de nervure/ de Veronica appen-/ diculata de/ Manjakatompo/ m ent{illeg.} (R. P.);
Platygaster
/
Pauliani
/ Risbec/ T. [
syntypes
6 ƤƤ; 3].
Elevage du
26–5–50
/ Eclos le
1–3–50
/ No. G92/ P. galle de tiges de/ Macaranga - Hilde-/ brandti de/ Tsinjoarive (R. P.);
Platygaster
/
Pauliani
/ Risbec/ T. [
syntype
3].
Elevage du
14–4–50
/ Eclos le
17–4–50
/ No. 732/ P. de la galle de la/ branche d’Aphloia/ theaeformis de/ Mantasa (R. P.);
Platygaster
/
Pauliani
/ Risbec/ T. [
syntype
Ƥ].
Remarks. Nine
syntypes
were located in the MNHN. The female
syntype
labelled as No. 732 is given as No.
723 in
Risbec’s description, but this must be a typographical error since it agrees in all other aspects of the description and collection data. Three further specimens each mounted on a glass slide, labelled as
Platygaster pauliani
in Risbec’s hand and also marked with a red ‘T’, presumably indicating a
type
, are not
types
since the label data differ greatly from those listed by Risbec in the original description. The nine
syntypes
are dry-mounted on three microscope slides, the cover slip fixed with paraffin wax. The forty-eight other
type
specimens mentioned by Risbec were not seen, they may be in the MRAC.