Platylabus hyperetis Heinrich, 1962

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Platylabus hyperetis Heinrich, 1962b: 707 (descr., key, allotype designation); Heinrich 1977: 275 (descr., distr., key); Bradley 1978: 7 (distr., host); Carlson 1979: 544 (cat., distr.); Butler 1993: 506 (host); Schmidt and Schmidt 2011: 79 (cat.); Yu and Horstmann 1997: 679 (cat.); Yu et al. 2016 (cat.).

Original type series

Holotype ♀, by original designation (ZSM); Allotype 1♂ (ZSM); paratypes: 3♀♀ and 1♂ (ZSM), 1♂ (CNCI) .

Type locality

United States of America, Maine, ‘New Portland’.

Updated distribution (Figure 25)

CANADA: British Columbia (Heinrich 1962b; Bradley 1978), Saskatchewan (Bradley 1978); UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Arkansas (Heinrich 1977), Maine (Heinrich 1962b), West Virginia (Butler 1993).

Host

Plagodis alcoolaria Guenée (Bradley 1978), Plagodis serinaria Herrich-Schaffer (Butler 1993), Probole amicaria Herrich-Schaffer (Heinrich 1962b; Heinrich 1977) ( Lepidoptera: Geometridae).

Male

Described by Heinrich (1962b, p. 707) from three males, one of which was designated as allotype.

Comments

Carlson (1979, p. 544) did not take Bradley’s (1978) paper into consideration and listed only Probole amicaria Herrich-Schaffer as the species host. Butler (1993, p. 506), in listing the parasitoids from Macrolepidoptera, indirectly recorded the species for the first time from West Virginia.