Platygaster rwankwiensis, Risbec, 1958

Notton, David G., 2010, A catalogue of the types of Platygastridae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with brief notes on the history of the collection, Zootaxa 2358, pp. 1-24 : 17

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2358.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6494185
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scientific name	Platygaster rwankwiensis
status

Treatment

Platygaster rwankwiensis Risbec, 1958: 126 View in CoL , figs 19f, 20b–c.

Current status. Platygaster rwankwiensis View in CoL

Holotype, sex?, locality?, ( MRAC); paratypes ♀; 3; 3 = ‘♀, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Northern Lake Kivu, Rwankwi ( MNHN); paratypes 13 ♀, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Northern Lake Kivu, Rwankwi (lost). Holotype by original designation.

Remarks. Three paratypes in the MNHN were seen. The other type specimens mentioned by Risbec were not seen, although the holotype is in the MRAC (E. de Coninck pers. comm.) and the others are possibly there as well.

References

Risbec, J. (1958) Contributions a la connaissance des Hymenopteres Chalcidoides et Proctotrupoides de l'Afrique Noire. Annales du Musee royal du Congo Belge Tervuren (8 e Serie), 64, 105 - 139.