Gonatocerus minimus Foerster, 1841

Gonatocerus minimus Foerster 1841: 45 .

Female [lost from NHMW], type status not indicated. Type locality: Aachen [area], North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Gonatocerus minimus Foerster [or Förster]: Walker 1846: 54 (English translation of the original description); Kirchner 1867: 201 (catalog); Dalla Torre 1898: 429 (catalog); Debauche 1948: 80 –81 (mentioned and excluded from list of European species).

Comments. I was unable to find the type specimen(s) of G. minimus in A. Foerster’s collection at NHMW. The very short description is insufficient to determine even its generic placement. Its body length of 1/9 linie (Foerster 1841) indicates that the specimen is much too small to be a species of Gonatocerus .