Parasitoid wasps new to Britain (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Eurytomidae, Braconidae & Bethylidae)
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Notton, David G.
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Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK E-mail: d. notton @ nhm. ac. uk & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 2 E 452 EF 2 - 703 C- 47 C 0 - 8432 - 6 AB 9 C 05 AC 06 A & corresponding author: d. notton @ nhm. ac. uk
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Popovici, Ovidiu A.
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University “ Al. I. Cuza ” Iasi, Faculty of Biology, B-dul Carol I, no. 11, RO - 700506, Romania E-mail: popovici _ alin _ ovidiu @ yahoo. com & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 3 BA 67 B 09 - 2 ECE- 4 BEC- 908 C-BB 0 F 0 FC 30 CEF
Author
Achterberg, Cornelis Van
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Terrestrial Zoology, Postbus 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands E-mail: cees. vanachterberg @ naturalis. nl & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: D 6374 CF 4 - 8 F 07 - 4 FA 8 - 8 C 55 - 9335 FD 19 CECD
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Rond, Jeroen De
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Burn, John T.
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2014
2014-10-15
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journal article
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10.5852/ejt.2014.99
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Laelius femoralis
(Förster, 1860)
Allepyris microneurus
Kieffer, 1906: 416-417
(syn. nov.).
Allepyris nigricrus
Kieffer, 1906: 417
(syn. nov.).
Identification
Material (previously identified as
L. microneurus
) in BMNH was reidentified according to the key by Vikberg & Koponen (1995) to confirm the presence of
L. femoralis
in Britain.
Material examined
ENGLAND
: Berkshire, Silwood Park,
18 Aug. 1975
, dead spruce, O.W. Richards, B.M.1967-510;
Kent
, Beckenham,
9 Jul. 1972
, D.E. Kimmins;
Surrey
, Kew,
17 Jul. 1977
, from
Crataegus
Linnaeus, 1753
, specimen number 15,576,
V
.F. Eastop (all
BMNH
).
Remarks
Berland (1928)
studied the female types of
L. macrocerus
and
L. nigricrus
(in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris) and could not find any difference between them, so he synonymised the two names. It was first suggested that
L. microneurus
was a synonym of
L. femoralis
by de Rond (in
Vikberg & Koponen 2005
) and from subsequent examination of all the types, including the female
neotype
of
L. femoralis
(in the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden), de Rond has come to the conclusion that both
L. microneurus
and
L. nigricrus
are junior synonyms of
L. femoralis
. This means that the species in Britain referred to as
L. microneurus
by
Perkins (1976)
should now be called
L. femoralis
.