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 75 1 123 journal article 21797 10.5852/ejt.2014.75 34311ed9-34bd-47f8-87cc-f4d34ce42eee 2118-9773 3862773 E02C736E-661D-407F-9322-24BFB95E233E Galesus ( Schizogalesus ) silvestrii var. nigricornis Nixon, 1930: 401 , 412. Valid name Coptera mosselensis nom. nov. Summary of types Syntype ♂ , BMNH number 9.658. Syntypes 3 ♂♂ . Primary type data Type; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / Dec. 1921 ; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1922-25 ; Galesus / silvestrii Kieff. / var. nigricornis / Nixon ( syntype ♂ ). Paratype ; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / 18-30. xi.1921 ; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1922-2; Galesus / silvestrii Kieff. / var. nigricornis / Nixon ( syntypes 2♂♂ ). Paratype ; Mossel Bay/ Cape Province / 5-31.vii.1921 ; S.Africa/ R.E.Turner/ Brit. Mus./ 1921-315; Galesus / silvestrii Kieff. / var. nigricornis / Nixon ( syntype ♂ ). Type locality South Africa , Western Cape Province , Mossel Bay. Remarks There are four males agreeing with Nixon’s description and labelled by him as Galesus silvestrii v. nigricornis . Of these, one is labelled as “type” and rest as “ paratype ”; however, since neither a unique holotype or lectotype has yet been fixed, all of the type series is syntypic (Article 73.2). All syntypes are mounted on cards and are entire. This taxon is not conspecific with Coptera silvestrii ; as well as the characters given by Nixon 1930 , it differs also in the shape of the frontal projections (outer angle forming a longer, more acute projection in silvestrii ) and in the size of the lateral fovea on the scutellar disc (larger in nigricornis , approaching the size of the basal scutellar fovea) and should be given the rank of species. Galesus ( Schizogalesus ) silvestrii var. nigricornis Nixon, 1930 is permanently invalid as a junior primary homonym of Galesus ( G. ) foersteri var. nigricornis Kieffer, 1911 and no other name appears to be available for it, so it is given a replacement name here based on the name of the type locality, Mossel Bay.