30. Nomia formosa Smith, 1858

Fig. 31

Nomia formosa Smith, 1858a: 5–6, ♀ ♂.

Type material examined

Lectotype

INDONESIA • ♀; Mak. [ Makassar, Sulawesi]; [2 Sep.–18 Dec. 1856]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2789-01 (lectotype indicated by Baker 1993, de facto lectotype designated by Pauly 2009).

Paralectotype

INDONESIA • 1 ♂; Mak. [ Makassar, Sulawesi]; [2 Sep.–18 Dec. 1856]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2789-02 .

Type locality

Not explicitly stated by Smith, but Celebes [= Sulawesi].

Notes

Baker (1993: 200) wrote the following:

“Smith described formosa from an unspecified number of specimens of both sexes from ‘Celebes’ [Makasar district]. He later (1860: 132) recorded it from Bachian and Malacca, noting: ‘The male of this species is distinguished by having two acute spines on the postscutellum’. Here he was obviously confusing it with a species of Hoplonomia, later (1875: 58) described, from an unspecified number of specimens of both sexes, from ‘Celebes; Java; Morty Island’, as quadridentata [see 5.32-11].

Of four specimens standing as formosa under Smith’s arrangement of Saunders’ collection, in UMO, one ♂ and one ♀ with Wallace’s label ‘Mak.’ [white disc] and Smith’s label (♀ only) ‘ Nomia formosa [rule] Smith’ are Curvinomia, but differ from Smith’s description in that the tergal fasciae are now yellow (traces of blue on posterior terga in ♂: these fasciae are, however, as seen in long series of other Curvinomia, liable to postmortem change), and in that the apex of tibia III is not now pale testaceous (again probably due to ageing).

Two ♂♂, one with Wallace’s label ‘Mak.’ and Smith’s label ‘ Nomia formosa Smith’ (virtually identical with his label on the ♀ and probably contemporary), the other ‘This species is erroneously given as the ♂. of N. formosa in insects of Batchian [i.e., Smith, 1860 [rule] New sp.’ [unrecognized hand], are Hoplonomia quadridentata (Smith), q.v.

Smith’s ♀ has now been labelled as LECTOTYPE of formosa . Of the two ♂ syntypes with Wallace’s label ‘Mak.’, that conspecific with this ♀ has been labelled as paralectotype, the Hoplonomia as a misidentified syntype, of formosa . The Hoplonomia ♂ without data, of uncertain origin, has been labelled as of no type status”.

Pauly (2009: 159) noted Baker’s lectotype, and therefore acted as the first publisher of this designation.

Current status

Curvinomia formosa (Smith, 1858) (Pauly 2009) .

Distribution

Indonesia (Sulawesi) (Pauly 2009).