Photographic catalogue of the oldest primary types of Japanese Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), those described by Frederick Smith and Francis Walker in 1874
Author
Shimizu, So
Laboratory of Insect Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kôbe University, Kôbe, Hyôgo, Japan; Research Fellow (DC 1 and Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tôkyô, Japan; Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
parasitoidwasp.sou@gmail.com
Author
Broad, Gavin R.
Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
text
Journal of Natural History
2020
2020-10-16
54
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journal article
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10.1080/00222933.2020.1776905
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1464-5262
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Ichneumon lanceolatus
Walker, 1874
(
Figure 42
)
Taxonomic history.
Morley (1913b)
transferred
I. lanceolatus
to
Ischnus
Gravenhorst, 1829
, but
Uchida (1940b)
could not be sure of the generic placement, and
Townes et al. (1965)
finally transferred it to
Agrothereutes
.
Current taxonomy.
Agrothereutes lanceolatus
(
Walker, 1874
)
(
Ichneumonidae
:
Cryptinae
:
Cryptini
).
Type
number.
Type
3b.363. Specimen #
NHMUK010634928
Type status.
Holotype
.
Sex.
Male.
Type
locality.
Japan
.
Label data.
First label, ‘Type’ (round label, with red margin; printed); second label, ‘B. M.
TYPE
/HYM./3.b.363.’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third line handwriting); third label, ‘
Japan
./Coll.F. Walker./
1913–71
.’ (square label; printed); fourth label, ‘
Ichneumon
/lanceolatus’ (square label; handwriting); fifth label, ‘262’ (square label; handwriting); sixth label, ‘B.M.
TYPE
/HYM./
Ichneumon
/lanceolatus/
Walker 1874
’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third to fifth lines handwriting); seventh label, ‘?
Ischnus
sp./Morley det. xii. 13’ (square label; ‘Morley det.’ printed and the remaining characters handwriting).
Figure 42.
Holotype male of
Ichneumon lanceolatus
Walker, 1874
(=
Agrothereutes lanceolatus
(
Walker, 1874
))
: (a) labels (b) lateral habitus (c) head, frontal view (d) head, dorsal view (e) head, lateral view (f) mesoscutum, dorsal view (g) scutellum and propodeum, dorsal view (h) mesosoma, lateral view (i) wings (j) metasoma, dorsal view.
Condition.
Not bad; the right antenna is missing after the 18th flagellomere, left antenna after the 16th flagellomere, fourth and fifth tarsomeres of the right hind leg, left hind leg except the coxa, and the right hind wing are lost.