Macreupelmus australis Risbec, 1952

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 : 474

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2015n3a3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5157109
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scientific name	Macreupelmus australis Risbec, 1952
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Macreupelmus australis Risbec, 1952 View in CoL

Macreupelmus australis Risbec, 1952: 122-124 View in CoL . Original description, ♀, Madagascar, Bekily. — Hedqvist 1970: 437 (catalogued).

Eupelmus austron Bouček, 1976b: 352 View in CoL (change of combination and replacement name).

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Synonym of Eupelmus (Eupelmus) fissicollis Risbec, 1952 View in CoL n. syn.

TYPE MATERIAL. — General collection. Lectotype ♀ (here designated), tip of the right antenna and the right hind wing broken, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “ Macreupelmus / australis Risbec ” and “ Madagascar / Bekily/ reg. sud de l’ile; Muséum Paris/ XII.36/ A. Seyrig; Type [red label]; Lectotype [red label]; Designated/ by Ebrahimi/ June 2006 [red label]”.

One ♀ paralectotype, minuten-pin mounted, head, third valvulae, hind legs and one middle leg missing: “ Madagascar / Bekily/ reg. sud de l’ile; Muséum Paris/ IX.36/ A. Seyrig; Museum Paris/ Coll. Risbec; Paralectotype [red label]; PARALECTOTYPE / Macreupelmus / australis Risbec / Det. Fusu 2011” .

One ♀ paralectotype, minuten-pin mounted, head, gaster, and one fore leg missing: “ Madagascar / Bekily/ reg. sud de l’ile; Muséum Paris/ XI.38/ A. Seyrig.; Museum Paris/ Coll. Risbec; Paralectotype [red label]; PARALECTOTYPE / Macreupelmus / australis Risbec / Det. Fusu 2011” .

MNHN.1.76. One ♀ paralectotype, dry mounted, dissected and crushed, labeled in Risbec’s handwriting: “Bekily/ Macreupelmus / sp./ N°2/ A. Seyrig; Eupelmidae / Macreupelmus / australis Risbec / T [large red letter]” .

REMARKS

A minuten-pin mounted female on a pin that bears an identification label in Risbec’s handwriting was selected as lectotype. Bouček (1976b) wrongly considered this specimen as the holotype, but this cannot be regarded as a lectotype designation (ICZN Art. 74.6) because Risbec (1952) explicitly mentions four female syntypes from Bekily collected by A. Seyrig. We located two of the paralectotypes under Calosoter melanoptera Risbec, 1952 and the third in the slide collection. According to Bouček the species belongs to Eupelmus ; he established the replacement name Eupelmus austron Bouček, 1976 for Macreupelmus australis Risbec, 1952 nec Idoleupelmus (= Eupelmus ) australis Girault, 1915 . The species is a synonym of Eupelmus fissicollis Risbec, 1952 , described on page 109 in the same paper as Macreupelmus australis .