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Allotropa Forster 1856

  • 1. State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany.
  • 2. FDACS-DPI, 1911 SW 34 St, Gainesville FL 32608, USA.

Description

Genus Allotropa Förster, 1856

Allotropa Förster, 1856: 106, 109. Type species Inostemma mecrida Walker, 1835, by monotypy.

Remarks

Allotropa is the only Förster genus of Platygastridae currently classified in the Sceliotrachelinae Brues, 1908. The genus was treated by Masner & Huggert (1989). The type species is Inostemma mecrida Walker, 1835, and the lectotype in NHMW was designated by Vlug & Graham (1984).

Notes

Published as part of Awad, Jessica, Krogmann, Lars & Talamas, Elijah, 2023, Taxonomic history and review of the Förster genera of Platygastridae (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), pp. 1-46 in European Journal of Taxonomy 875 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.875.2137, http://zenodo.org/record/8047251

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Platygastridae
Genus
Allotropa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Forster
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Allotropa Forster, 1856 sec. Awad, Krogmann & Talamas, 2023

References

  • Forster A. 1856. Hymenopterologische Studien. II. Heft. Chalcidiae und Proctotrupii. Ernst ter Meer, Aachen.
  • Walker F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster, & c. The Entomological Magazine 3: 217 - 274.
  • Masner L. & Huggert L. 1989. World review and keys to the genera of the subfamily Inostemmatinae with reassignment of the taxa to the Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 147: 1 - 214. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / entm 121147 fv
  • Vlug H. J. & Graham M. W. R. 1984. The types of Platygastridae (Hymenoptera, Scelionoidea) described by Haliday and Walker and preserved in the National Museum of Ireland and the British Museum (Natural History). 1. Designation of lectotypes. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 127 (6): 115 - 135.