Opius magnicauda Fischer, 1958

Hovorka, Tomáš & Macek, Jan, 2022, Catalogue of type specimens of braconid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 62 (2), pp. 521-546 : 525

Opius magnicauda Fischer, 1958

Opius magnicauda Fischer, 1958a: 298 , Fig. 1 (original description).

The holotype, allotype and one paratype are deposited in NMPC (general collection):

HOLOTYPE ( ♀): ‘▲ [hw] Deblík v Stře – / dohoří [p] 26.vii.56 [hw] / BOHEMIA, Bouček [p] // Opius / magnicauda / n.sp. [hw] / det. Fischer // TYPUS [p, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 3229 [hw, orange label]’ ( Fig. 21 ). (Missing front leg on non-glued side and one fore wing, second fore wing is glued on the label.)

ALLOTYPE ( ♂): ‘▲ [hw] Deblík , Stře– / dohoří, BOHEMIA / Bouček 1957 [p, strikethrough-hw] / 26.vii.1956 [hw, reverse side of the same label] // Opius [p] / magnicauda / n.sp. [hw] / det. Fischer // Allotype [p, red label] // Mus.Nat.Pragae / Inv. [p] 3238 [hw, orange label]’ ( Fig. 22 ).

PARATYPE ( ♀): ‘ Karlštejn / Boh . centr. 1954 / lgt, P. Starý [p, light blue shiny label] // Opius / magnicauda / n.sp. [hw] / det. Fischer [p] // Paratypus [hw, blue ink, red label] // Mus. Nat.Pragae / Inv.[p] 26.076 [hw, blue ink, orange label]’.

Current status. Valid species: Opius ( Opiothorax) magnicauda Fischer, 1958 (see YU et al. 2016).

Distribution. Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (see YU et al. 2016).

Figures

Fig. 1. Holotype of Triaspis algiricus Šnoflák, 1958 with its labels (scale bar = 2.5 mm).

Fig. 21. Holotype of Opius magnicauda Fischer, 1958 with its labels (scale bar = 2.5 mm).

Fig. 22. Allotype of Opius magnicauda Fischer, 1958 with its labels (scale bar = 2.5 mm).