Amblyaspis tritici
- 1. State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany.
- 2. FDACS-DPI, 1911 SW 34 St, Gainesville FL 32608, USA.
Description
Amblyaspis tritici (Walker, 1835)
Fig. 4
Platygaster tritici Haliday, 1830 – Curtis 1830: 309 (nomen nudum). — Walker 1835: 233.
Platygaster tritici Curtis, 1831 – Muesebeck & Walkley 1956: 327 (nomen nudum).
Platygaster tritici Walker, 1835 – Vlug & Graham 1984: 119; 1995: 12.
Amblyaspis tritici (Walker, 1835) – Vlug 1995: 13.
Material examinedLectotype
[WESTERN EUROPE] • 1 ♂; [Haliday leg.]; NMINH NMINH_2018_11_30.
RemarksThe type species of Amblyaspis was first designated by Ashmead (1893) as “ Amblyaspis aliena Förster ”. Although Amblyaspis aliena (Nees, 1834) is a valid species with which Förster was familiar, Ashmead’s combination was considered a nomen nudum by Muesebeck & Walkley (1956), who designated “ Platygaster tritici Curtis, 1831 ” instead. The latter name first appeared in Curtis’s British Entomology, a series of illustrations published periodically between 1824 and 1839. Curtis (1830) attributed the species to Haliday. However, there was no description and the combination is therefore also a nomen nudum. The species was not formally described until Walker (1835), who also attributed it to Haliday.
Vlug (1995) designated “ Platygaster tritici Walker, 1835 ” as the type species, with a male lectotype from the Haliday collection in Dublin. Unfortunately, the country of origin of this specimen cannot be determined, as Haliday collected in both England and Ireland, and both countries are mentioned in the original description.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NMINH
- Family
- Platygastridae
- Genus
- Amblyaspis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- NMINH_2018_11_30
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Species
- tritici
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amblyaspis tritici (Walker, 1835) sec. Awad, Krogmann & Talamas, 2023
References
- Walker F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster, & c. The Entomological Magazine 3: 217 - 274.
- Curtis J. 1830. Folio 309. Platygaster Boscii. In: British Entomology: Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects Found in Great Britain and Ireland: Containing Coloured Figures from Nature of the Most Rare and Beautiful Species, and in Many Instances of the Plants Upon Which they are Found. Vol. III: 331. Richard and John E. Taylor, London.
- Muesebeck C. F. W. & Walkley L. 1956. Type species of the genera and subgenera of parasitic wasps comprising the superfamily Proctotrupoidea (order Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 105 (3359): 319 - 419. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.3359.319
- 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.
- Vlug H. J. 1995. Catalogue of the Platygastridae (Platygastroidea) of the world (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Hymenopterorum Catalogus 19: 1 - 168.
- Ashmead W. H. 1893. Monograph of the North American Proctotrypidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 45: 1 - 472. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.45.1
- Nees von Esenbeck C. G. 1834. Hymenopterorum Ichneumonibus Affinium, Monographiae, Genera Europaea et Species Illustrantes, Vol. 2. J. G. Cottae, Stuttgart.