Aulatopria tucumana Brèthes, 1927a: 164

Notton, David G., 2014, A catalogue of the types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London, European Journal of Taxonomy 75, pp. 1-123 : 29

Aulatopria tucumana Brèthes, 1927a: 164 .

Valid name

Bruchopria tucumana (Brèthes, 1927) .

Summary of types

Syntypes ♀, ♂.

Primary type data

Reared; Rosenfeld y/ Barber, colls.; Est. Exp./ A.C. No. 115; Tucumán / I-22-1913; Aulatopria / tucumana Brèthes ; Pres. By Imp. Bur. Ent./ Brit. Mus./ 1928-347 (syntypes ♀, ♂).

Type locality

Argentina, Tucumán.

Remarks

The description for this species was published twice, in the Revista industrial y agrícola de Tucumán ( Brèthes 1927a) and translated into English in the Bulletin of Entomological Research ( Brèthes 1927b). It is most probable that the Revista came first, as this work was published every two months at that time; volume 17(7-8) contains weather reports up to 31 January 1927 and was probably published shortly afterwards, whereas the English translation in the Bulletin has the cover date December 1927. Brèthes mentions that the specimens were reared during studies of the sugar-cane moth borer Diatraea saccharalis Fabricius, 1794 by Rosenfeld and Barber and published in 1914 also in Revista industrial y agrícola de Tucumán. Rosenfeld and Barber’s paper could not be traced during this study, but is mentioned here since it may throw further light on the composition of the type series. Two syntypes were found which had been reared by Rosenfeld and Barber in 1913, labelled by Brèthes, and received at the Imperial Bureau of Entomology in London, shortly after the date of the description. Both syntypes are mounted on card points and are somewhat dirty: the female is missing the left fore wing and has the right fore wing chipped; the male is entire. This species is now placed in Bruchopria Kieffer, 1921 following Masner & García (2002).