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Laelius femoralis

Creators

  • 1. Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
  • 2. University " Al. I. Cuza " Iasi, Faculty of Biology, B-dul Carol I, no.
  • 3. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Terrestrial Zoology, Postbus 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • 4. Beukenhof 96, NL- 8212 EB, Lelystad, The Netherlands
  • 5. 15 Plawsworth Road, Sacriston, County Durham, DH 7 6 PD, UK

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of Notton, David G., Popovici, Ovidiu A., Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Rond, Jeroen De & Burn, John T., 2014, Parasitoid wasps new to Britain (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Eurytomidae, Braconidae & Bethylidae), pp. 1-20 in European Journal of Taxonomy 99 (99) on page 15, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.99, http://zenodo.org/record/3838972

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Journal article: 10.5852/ejt.2014.99 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Laelius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Forster
Species
femoralis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Laelius femoralis (Forster, 1860) sec. Notton, Popovici, Achterberg, Rond & Burn, 2014

References

  • Berland L. 1928. Hymenopteres Vespiformes II (Eumenidae, Vespidae, Masaridae, Bethylidae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae). Faune de France 19: 1 - 206.
  • Vikberg V. & Koponen M. 2005. Contribution to the taxonomy of the Palaearctic species of the genus Laelius Ashmead, mainly from Finland and Sweden (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea: Bethylidae). Entomologica Fennica 16 (1): 23 - 50.
  • Perkins J. F. 1976. Hymenoptera: Bethyloidea (excluding Chrysididae). Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. VI (3 a): 1 - 38. Royal Entomological Society, London.