Spathius fasciatus Walker 1874
Creators
- 1. 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
- 2. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Description
Spathius fasciatus Walker, 1874
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Taxonomic history. No taxonomic history after the original description.
Current taxonomy. Spathius fasciatus Walker, 1874 (Braconidae: Doryctinae: Spathiini).
Type number. Type 3c.510. Specimen # NHMUK010881032
Type status. Holotype.
Sex. Female.
Type locality. Japan.
Label data. First label, ‘Type’ (round label, with red margin; printed); second label, ‘ Japan./Coll.F. Walker./ 1913–71.’ (square label; printed); third label, ‘ Spathius /fasciatus’ (square label; handwriting); fourth label, ‘262’ (square label; handwriting); fifth label, ‘ Lectotypus Spathius / japonicus Walker /design. Belokobylskij 83’ (red square label; ‘Lectotypus’ and ‘design.’ printed and the remaining characters handwriting).
Condition. Good; antennae, left fore leg, third to fifth tarsomeres of left hind leg lost.
Remarks. The type was incorrectly labelled as the lectoytype of ‘ Spathius japonicus ’, a name that doesn’t exist. Nixon (1943) states that this specimen is the holotype (‘unique female’).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHMUK
- Family
- Braconidae
- Genus
- Spathius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- NHMUK010881032
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Species
- fasciatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Spathius fasciatus Walker, 1874 sec. Shimizu & Broad, 2020
References
- Walker F. 1874. Descriptions of some Japanese Hymenoptera. Cistula Entomol. 1: 301 - 310.
- Nixon GEJ. 1943. A revision of the Spathiinae of the Old World (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Trans R Entomol Soc London. 93: 173 - 456. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1943. tb 00434. x.