Xyalopria nigriceps Kieffer, 1907: 300

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 : 48

Xyalopria nigriceps Kieffer, 1907: 300 .

Valid name

Trichopria fluminis nom. nov.

Summary of types

Syntype ♀, BMNH number 9.690.

Primary type data

Type; Rio/ 59-21x; Xyalopria / nigriceps/ Kieffer; named by J.J.Kieffer.

Type locality

Brazil, Rio de Janeiro.

Remarks

This species was described from an unspecified number of females, of which one was found. The syntype is mounted on a card, with part of the right mid tarsus missing and the left mid tarsus mounted separately. This species was included in Megaplastopria by Arias-Penna (2003); however, it does not belong there. While it is large, elongate and has a long, slender propodeal spine, it lacks significant characters of Megaplastopria such as the occipital spine and carina, grooved scape and flared corners of the metasomal tergites, and is here transferred to Trichopria instead. Since the new combination T. nigriceps ( Kieffer, 1907) is a junior secondary homonym of T. nigriceps (Ashmead in Riley, Ashmead & Howard, 1894) , Kieffer’s species is given the new replacement name Trichopria fluminis nom. nov. The word fluminis , genitive of flumen (Latin for river) refers to the type locality Rio de Janeiro. Since X. nigriceps Kieffer is the type species of Xyalopria , Xyalopria is removed from synonymy with Megaplastopria and becomes a junior synonym of Trichopria syn. nov.