Paravignalia hemipterae Risbec, 1951

Fusu, Lucian, Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, Siebold, Cedric & Villemant, Claire, 2015, Revision of the Eupelmidae Walker, 1833 described by Jean Risbec. Part 1: the slide mounted specimens housed at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, Zoosystema 37 (3), pp. 457-480 : 476-477

Paravignalia hemipterae Risbec, 1951

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Paravignalia hemipterae Risbec, 1951a: 274-275 . Original description, ♂, Abengourou; 1950a: 401, 410, 447 (nomen nudum); 1955: 218-219 (junior synonym of Anastatus aliberti Risbec ). — Hedqvist 1970: 430-431 (synonym of Anastatus aliberti , catalogued).— Bouček 1976b: 349 (synonymy with Anastatus aliberti incorrect).

Anastatus ? hemipterae – Matteson 1981: 549-550 (change of combination, biology).

Anastatus aliberti – Herting 1971: 90 (catalogued).

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Synonym of Anastatus (Anastatus) aliberti Risbec, 1951 .

TYPE MATERIAL. — MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.2. Lectotype ♂ (here designated), dry mounted, in good condition, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus / Aliberti. Risbec/ ex ω Homoeocerus / s- cacaoyer./ Abengourou/ H. Alibert ” and “ Lectotype [red label]; [a blue round label]; LECTOTYPE ♂ / Paravignalia / hemipterae Risbec / Det. Fusu L. 2011” [see also under Anastatus aliberti ].

MNHN.14.80. Five ♂ paralectotypes, dry mounted under one coverslip, three of them with heads missing, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus / ( Paravignalia )/ hemipterae . R/ ex ω Vitumnus / scenicus Bambey/ Risbec”.

MNHN.14.81. Fifteen ♂ paralectotypes, dry mounted under one coverslip, many of them damaged, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “s- plante sauvage/ Dagatiguy./ Abengourou/ Anastatus [crossed off] ( Paravignalia )/ hemipterae / Risbec” [there is also a peace of a leaf with five eggs attached, glued on the same slide].

MNHN.14.83.Two ♂ paralectotypes, of which one with head missing, both dry mounted under one round coverslip together with three insect eggs, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting:“ Anastatus [crossed off]/ ( Paravignalia )/ hemipterae / Risbec/ ex ω Lepid./ Bambey”.

MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.1. Seven ♂ paralectotypes, dry mounted under one coverslip, mostly in good condition, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “Miscogast. [crossed off]/ Eupelmidae [crossed off]/ ex ω Homoeocerus / avec Hadronotus / naevius / Alibert 744/ Paravignalia / hemipterae Risbec ”.

MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.3. Three ♂ paralectotypes, dry mounted under one coverslip, one specimen with head missing and another with broken antennae, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus / ( Paravignalia )/ hemipterae [overwritten in a different ink by:] Aliberti Risbec / ex ω. Reduvidae [sic]/ Bambey/ Risbec” [see also under Anastatus aliberti ].

MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.11. Two ♂ paralectotypes, mounted in balsam under two coverslips, one badly crushed (only the entire one with long clava, hence the two males not conspecific), labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “= Paravignalia / hemipterae / Risbec/ ex Nezara / prunasis / Anastatus [with a sinuous arrow pointing to = Paravignalia ]”.

NON TYPE MATERIAL. — MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.4. Two Anastatus males, dry mounted under one coverslip, clearly not conspecific with specimens on the previous slides, because of the antennal structure of the common Anastatus - type, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus Aliberti Risbec / ♂./ ex ω Hotea / subfasciata. / Garoua I. 55/ Descamps. 223” [see also under Anastatus aliberti ].

MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.12. One male with the common Anastatus - type antennal structure, dry mounted, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus / hemipterae Risb / ♂ / M’Bam[bey] Wane.”. MNHN, ex. coll. ORSTOM.2.13. Twenty-seven Anastatus spp. males, dry mounted under one coverslip, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Anastatus [crossed off]/ Paravignalia / hemipterae Risbec / ex ω Homoeocerus / pallens et yerburyi / Garoua. 3-54 Descamps”.

REMARKS

This species was described based on a long series of males reared from various hosts ( Risbec 1951a); the specimens mentioned in the original description under letters b and f were not located in MNHN. The specimens on the last three slides are not part of the type series as they were not mentioned in the original description. Because the type series is heterogeneous and includes males of several Anastatus species , the male on slide ORSTOM. 2.2 is here designated lectotype. It is conspecific with the male on slide MNHN 14.22 (see under Anastatus aliberti ) that contains also the lectotype and paralectotype females of Anastatus aliberti ; all four specimens were reared from eggs of Homoeocerus Burmeister, 1835 ( Hemiptera , Coreidae ) at Abengourou. Risbec (1955), followed by Hedqvist (1970), considered this species as a synonym of Anastatus aliberti whereas Bouček (1976b) was reluctant to accept this synonymy. Since the lectotype of Paravignalia hemipterae is conspecific with a male that is most likely that of A. aliberti , this synonymy is accepted in the present paper.

Figures

FIG. 1. — A, slide MNHN.14.27, dry mounted specimens with coverslip sealed with wax, Anastatus gratidiae Risbec, 1951, lectotype and paralectotype; B, slide ORSTOM.2.2, dry mounted specimen with coverslip sealed with paraffin wax, Paravignalia hemipterae Risbec, 1951, lectotype; C, slide ORSTOM.2.24, dry mounted specimen with coverslip sealed with Canada balsam, Bruchocida batataephila Risbec, 1951, paralectotype; D, slide MNHN.14.71, dry mounted specimen on a wooden strip with coverslip sealed with wax, Polymoria curculionis Risbec, 1951, paralectotype; E, MNHN.14.18, dry mounted specimens in a cardboard slide, Mesocomys sp.; F, label in Risbec’s handwriting, BMNH collections, Eupelmus psychephagus Risbec, 1951; G, slide MNHN.1.74, dry mounted antenna, Eusandalum striatum Risbec, 1952, holotype; H, labels of the paralectotype of Calosoter versicolor Risbec, 1951, BMNH collection (Photo Natalie Dale-Skey Papilloud).