Trigonura ninae (Nikol'skaya, 1952)

Falahatpisheh, Ali, Fallahzadeh, Majid, Dousti, Abu Fazel & Delvare, Gérard, 2018, Review of Iranian Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with nomenclatural notes, Zootaxa 4394 (2), pp. 251-269 : 256

Trigonura ninae (Nikol'skaya, 1952)

Centrochalcis ruficaudis CAmERON, 1913: 2–3. ORIgINAL DESCRIpTION ♀ ♂. INDIA: DEHARA DUU. PREOCCUpIED bY Trigonura ruficaudis (CAmERON, 1907) .

Trigonura ruficaudis (CAmERON): WATERSTON, 1922: 2.

= Urochalcis ninae NIkOL'SkAYA, 1952: 91. ORIgINAL DESCRIpTION ♀ [WITHIN A kEY]. TURkmENISTAN: DELVARE 2017: 237.

Trigonura ninae (NIkOL'SkAYA): NIkOL'SkAYA, 1960b: 92.

= Trigonura sphenoptera NIkOL'SkAYA, 1960A: 222. ORIgINAL DESCRIpTION ♀ ♂. KAzAkHSTAN. LOTFALIzADEH et al. 2012: 77.

= Trigonura sphenopterae (NIkOL'SkAYA): NIkOL'SkAYA, 1960b: 92–93.

Material examined. Type material. Centrochalcis ruficaudis . Lectotype ♀ (BMNH type 5-117) Urochalcis ninae . Lectotype, here designated, a pinned ♀ labelled ' 26 VII 25 ' / ' Urochalcis ninae sp. n. type Nikol'skaya det.', [= specimen 21] (in ZIN). Paralectotypes. 1 ♂ labelled 'Transcapia 14 VII 902' [specimen 19], 1 ♀ labelled ' 25 V 953' [specimen 20], 1 ♂ labelled ' 16 VII 28 ' [specimen 18] (in ZIN). Trigonura sphenoptera . 3 ♀ syntypes pinned and labelled ' 26 VIII 53 ' [specimens 22, 23 & 24], 1 ♀ syntype pinned and labelled ' 15 V 73 ' [specimen 27] (in ZIN). Other material. IRAN: Fars, Sepidan, loc. 10, 23.vi. 2010, (5 ♀) (in JIAU and CIRAD) [GDEL0382 and GDEL0384].

Comment. The species, initially described by Cameron (1913) in Centrochalcis , is a secondary homonym of Trigonura ruficaudis (Cameron, 1907) described from South Africa in Phasganophora . Delvare (2017) replaced it by its first junior synonym.

Distribution. Oriental and West Palaearctic ( India, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Iran and UAE) (Cameron 1913; Nikol'skaya 1952, 1960a, b; Lotfalizadeh & Jafari-Nadushan 2015; Delvare 2017).

Hosts. Recently T. ninae was reared on Chrysobothris parvipunctata Obenberger, 1914 ( Coleoptera : Buprestidae ) from pomegranate trees in central Iran (Lotfalizadeh & Jafari-Nadushan 2015).