Synopeas rugiceps (Ashmead)

Talamas, Elijah J., Thompson, Joseph, Cutler, Amy, Schoenberger, Samantha Fitzsimmons, Cuminale, Anthony, Jung, Trenton, Johnson, Norman F., Valerio, Alejandro A., Smith, Ashton B., Haltermann, Victoria, Alvarez, Elizabeth, Schwantes, Collin, Blewer, Catherine, Bodenreider, Coline, Salzberg, Annika, Luo, Pei, Meislin, Debra & Buffington, Matthew L., 2017, An online photographic catalog of primary types of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56, pp. 187-224 : 191-192

Synopeas rugiceps (Ashmead) Figures 12-15

Amblyaspis rugiceps Ashmead, 1893: 267, 269 (original description. Keyed).

Leptacis rugiceps (Ashmead): Fouts 1924: 117, 122 (description, generic transfer, lectotype designation, keyed); Kieffer 1926: 637, 643 (description, keyed); Masner and Muesebeck 1968: 82 (type information); Vlug 1995: 38 (cataloged, type information).

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=11685

Material examined.

Lectotype, male, A. rugiceps : UNITED STATES: Washington, 23-VI, USNMENT00979264 (deposited in USNM).

Comments.

The absence of a long fringe of setae on the posterior margin of the fore wing and the fusion of T1 and T2 place this species in Synopeas Förster, not Leptacis Förster. Fouts described numerous species in Leptacis that were later transferred to Synopeas (Masner, in Krombein and Burks 1967), and his transfer of this species from Amblyaspis Förster into Synopeas reflects his concepts of these genera.

Figures

Figures 12 - 15. Synopeas rugiceps, lectotype male (USNMENT 00979264) 12 mesosoma and metasoma, lateral view 13 mesosoma and fore wings, dorsal view 14 antenna, lateral view 15 metapleuron, T 1 - T 2, S 1 - S 2, lateral view. Scale bars in millimeters.