Rhyssalus? striatulus Cameron 1909, 1833

Broad, Gavin R., 2021, Taxonomic changes in Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), and notes on certain type specimens, Zootaxa 4941 (4), pp. 511-541 : 521

7. Rhyssalus? striatulus Cameron 1909

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Current combination. Rhaconotus striatulus ( Cameron 1909) new combination ( Braconidae : Doryctinae )

Material examined. Rhyssalus striatulus Cameron 1909 ♀ lectotype, here designated, NHMUK, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia: ‘ J. Hewitt Kuching’; ‘ Rhyssalus striatulus Cam. Type Borneo’; ‘ P. Cameron Coll. 1914-110’; ‘ B.M.Type Hym. 3c.2413’; unsexed paralectotype, non-type ♂, same data as lectotype.

Comments. Three specimens (one female, one male and one unsexed as the metasoma is missing) labelled as co-types by Peter Cameron are in NHMUK. Gilbert Nixon had recognised these as a species of Rhaconotus Ruthe 1854 , but this remained unpublished. Cameron’s (1909) description was based on the female sex, with no mention of males, or of how many specimens he based the description on; the definite female and unsexed individual should be regarded as syntypes, and the male has no type status. As there is only one unambiguous female (NHMUK010635177, illustrated in Fig. 8 ), this is here designated as the lectotype with the type number 3c.2413. Nixon had also indicated in the collection that Rhaconotus testaceipes ( Cameron 1910) (described as Euryphrymnus testaceipes ) is a junior synonym. I have not examined the holotype of E. testaceipes , which is in ZMHB.

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FIGURE 8. Rhyssalus striatulus Cameron 1909 lectotype female (NHMUK010635177): (a) lateral habitus; (b) dorsal habitus; (c) metasoma dorsal view, labels inset; scale bar = 2 mm.