Eupelmus tennysoni Girault

Gibson, Gary A. P., Dewhurst, Charles & Makai, Simon, 2012, Nomenclatural changes in Anastatus Motschulsky and the description of Anastatus eurycanthae Gibson n. sp. (Eupelmidae: Eupelminae), an egg parasitoid of Eurycantha calcarata Lucas (Phasmida: Phasmatidae) from Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 3419, pp. 53-61 : 54-55

Eupelmus tennysoni Girault revived comb.

Eupelmus tennysoni Girault, 1921: 188 . Type data: Australia: Queensland, Nelson. Holotype female (QMBA, missing). Described: female.

Anastatus tennysoni ; Bouček, 1988: 552. Change of combination.

Remarks. Girault (1921) did not state the number of specimens on which E. tennysoni was based, but the original description gives no indication that there was more than one female. Dahms (1986) did not locate the holotype, but did refer to a single female of Anastatus in the QMBA that is labelled as a paratype of E. tennysoni . Although Dahms suggested that this female likely was not part of the type series, it is undoubtedly the reason why Bouček (1988) transferred E. tennysoni to Anastatus . However, the putative paratype cannot be part of the type series of E. tennysoni because Girault stated that the ovipositor sheaths were “nearly as long as abdomen”. The purported paratype female, like most female Anastatus , has the ovipositor sheaths projecting only slightly beyond the apex of the metasoma. Based on Girault's original description, E. tennysoni belongs to Eupelmus and, mostly likely, to E. ( Episolindelia ). When Girault (1921) described E. tennysoni he stated that it was like E. dumasi Girault (1915) , which he had previously described as being similar in all respects to E. renami Girault (1915) . As part of the latter description he stated that the extruded valves of the ovipositor were concolorous. Females of E. ( Episolindelia ) commonly have uniformly coloured ovipositor sheaths, whereas those of E. ( Eupelmus ) more commonly have banded ovipositor sheaths. Dahms (1986) also listed a slide that is labelled as a paratype of E. tennysoni Girault , which contains one antenna and a fore wing from a missing specimen. The fore wing has a linea calva, which confirms placement of the species in Eupelmus if the slide was made from the holotype of E. tennysoni . However, the parts remaining are insufficient to confidently establish subgeneric placement.