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
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journal article
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10.1080/00222933.2020.1776905
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Ophion pungens
Smith, 1874
(
Figure 24
)
Taxonomic history.
Morley (1912)
transferred this species from
Ophion
Fabricius, 1798
to
Henicospilus
Agassiz, 1846
(an unjustified emendation of
Enicospilus
Stephens, 1835
).
Current taxonomy.
Enicospilus pungens
(
Smith, 1874
)
(
Ichneumonidae
:
Ophioninae
).
Type
number.
Type
3b.1274. Specimen #
NHMUK010881039
Type status.
Holotype
.
Sex.
Male.
Smith (1874)
described the
type
as a female, but it is male.
Type
locality.
Hyôgo Prefecture
, Honshû,
Japan
.
Label data.
First label, ‘
Type
/CM’ (round label, with red margin; first line printed and second line handwriting); second label, ‘B.M.
TYPE
/HYM./3b.1274’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third line handwriting); third label, ‘Hiogo/
Japan
.’ (square label; first line handwriting and second line printed); fourth label, ‘74/16’ (round label; handwriting); sixth label, ‘
Ophion
/pungens/
Type
. Sm’ (square label; handwriting).
Condition.
Rather good, but the right antenna is broken at the 7th flagellomere and left antenna at the 28th flagellomere. The metasoma is very weakly attached to the mesosoma.