Polysphincta bohemani var. tropicus Morley 1912
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19. Polysphincta bohemani var. tropicus Morley 1912
Sinarachna tropica (Morley 1912): Townes & Townes 1973
Current combination. Zatypota tropica (Morley 1912) (Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) new combination.
Material examined. Polysphincta bohemani var. tropicus Morley 1912 ♀ lectotype, designated by Townes & Townes 1973, NHMUK, Seychelles.
Comments. Morley (1912) described ‘ var. tropicus ’ on the basis of a female and two males from ‘the marshy plateaux at Mare aux Cochons and elsewhere on Silhouette in August, 1908, and at an altitude of over eight hundred feet at the Cascade Estate on Mahé about four months later.’ The male paralectotypes cannot be found now. The female lectotype of Polysphincta bohemani var. tropicus Morley 1912 is a species of Zatypota Förster, not Sinarachna Townes as placed by Townes & Townes (1973). The mesoscutum is setose all over and there is a faint indication of a hind wing nervellus, probably explaining their transfer to Sinarachna, but the occipital carina is complete (dorsally incomplete in Sinarachna). The specimen is on long-term loan and I am unable to illustrate it.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Polysphincta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Morley
- Species
- tropicus
- Taxon rank
- variety
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polysphincta bohemani var. tropicus Morley, 1912 sec. Broad, 2021
References
- Morley, C. (1912) No. XII. - Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 15, 169 - 179. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1912. tb 00097. x
- Townes, H. K. & Townes, M. (1973) A catalogue and reclassification of the Ethiopian Ichneumonidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 19, 1 - 416.