Spathius fasciatus Walker, 1874

Shimizu, So & Broad, Gavin R., 2020, Photographic catalogue of the oldest primary types of Japanese Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), those described by Frederick Smith and Francis Walker in 1874, Journal of Natural History 54 (17), pp. 1115-1198 : 1191

Spathius fasciatus Walker, 1874

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Taxonomic history. No taxonomic history after the original description.

Current taxonomy. Spathius fasciatus Walker, 1874 ( Braconidae : Doryctinae : Spathiini ).

Type number. Type 3c.510. Specimen # NHMUK010881032

Type status. Holotype.

Sex. Female.

Type locality. Japan.

Label data. First label, ‘Type’ (round label, with red margin; printed); second label, ‘ Japan./Coll.F. Walker./ 1913–71.’ (square label; printed); third label, ‘ Spathius /fasciatus’ (square label; handwriting); fourth label, ‘262’ (square label; handwriting); fifth label, ‘ Lectotypus Spathius / japonicus Walker /design. Belokobylskij 83’ (red square label; ‘Lectotypus’ and ‘design.’ printed and the remaining characters handwriting).

Condition. Good; antennae, left fore leg, third to fifth tarsomeres of left hind leg lost.

Remarks. The type was incorrectly labelled as the lectoytype of ‘ Spathius japonicus ’, a name that doesn’t exist. Nixon (1943) states that this specimen is the holotype (‘unique female’).

Figures

Figure 49. Holotype female of Spathius fasciatus Walker, 1874: (a) labels (b) lateral habitus (c) head, frontal view (d) head,dorsal view (e) head,lateral view (f) mesoscutum and scutellum, dorsal view (g) propodeum, dorsolateral view (h) mesosoma, lateral view (i) metasoma, dorsal view.