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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Galesus
(
Schizogalesus
)
turneri
var.
carinaticeps
Nixon, 1930: 401
, 402, 410.
Valid name
Coptera carinaticeps
(
Nixon, 1930
)
.
Summary of
types
Syntype
♀
, BMNH number 9.671.
Syntype
♂
, BMNH number 9.671b.
Syntype
♂
.
Primary type data
Type; Mossel Bay/
Cape Province
/
October 1921
; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1921-450;
Galesus
/
turneri Nixon
/
v. carinaticeps
/ Nixon/
♀
type 1930 (
syntype
♀
). Type; Mossel Bay/
Cape Province
/
15-31.vii.1921
; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1921-315;
Galesus
/
turneri Nixon
/
v. carinaticeps
/ Nixon/
♂
type 1930 (
syntype
♂
).
Paratype
; Port St. John/ Pondoland/
Sept. 1923
; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1923-510;
Galesus
/
turneri Nixon
/
v. carinaticeps
/ Nixon/
♂
paratype
1930/ G.Nixon det. (
syntype
♂
).
Type locality
South Africa
,
Western Cape Province
, Mossel Bay, but evidently including
Eastern Cape Province
, Port St Johns.
Remarks
There are one female and two males agreeing with Nixon’s description and labelled by him as
Galesus turneri
v.
carinaticeps
. Of these, two are labelled as “type” and the third as “
paratype
”; however, since neither a unique
holotype
or
lectotype
has yet been fixed, all of the type series is syntypic (Article 73.2). The specimen labelled as “
paratype
” is from Port St John, not Mossel Bay; however, this appears to be a lapsus by Nixon. It appears he included it in the description since he referred to two males, so it is not excluded here from the type series. The two
syntypes
labelled as “type” are mounted on card points, the other is mounted on a card.