A photographic catalog of Ceraphronoidea types at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN), with comments on unpublished notes from Paul Dessart
Author
Trietsch, Carolyn
Author
Mikó, István
Author
Deans, Andrew R.
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2019
2019-02-28
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Ceraphron nigrelliceps
Kieffer, 1907
Fig. 14
Ceraphron Nigrelliceps
Kieffer, 1907b
: 247
,
♀
. NHMUK, MNHN.
Calliceras nigrelliceps
–
Kieffer 1914c
: 72
, 82. Generic transfer, description, keyed.
Ceraphron nigrelliceps
–
Kelner-Pillault 1958
: 149
.
Type
information. ––
Masner 1965
: 13
.
Type
information.
Material examined
Syntype
FRANCE
•
♀
; “
Bitche
” (
Kieffer 1907b: 247
);
MNHN
EY22476
.
Distribution
Palearctic.
Comments
Kieffer (1907b)
only described the female of this species. The female specimen at the MNHN appears to have been collected at the university in Bitche where Kieffer used to teach, and subsequently donated to the MNHN (
Kelner-Pillault 1958
). The specimen (MNHN EY22476) is point mounted and in good condition.
Dessart left a label on the specimen in 1966 indicating that it is actually
Ceraphron pedes
Förster, 1861
but never officially synonymized it according to
Johnson & Musetti (2004)
. There is a second female specimen at the Natural History Museum in London (NHMUK010812034) that Dessart viewed in 1965 and also identified as
Ceraphron pedes
Förster, 1861
. It is unclear why Dessart never published this. Both the NHMUK and MNHN specimens were collected by P. Cameron and have determination labels from Kieffer, and are presumably
syntypes
. Dessart labeled the type at the NHMUK as a
syntype
, but the type at the MNHN still bears a
holotype
label.