Synopeas ventrale (Westwood)

Talamas, Elijah J., Awad, Jessica, Tortorici, Francesco & Johnson, Norman F., 2024, Platygastroidea in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History: taxonomic updates and a photographic catalog of type specimens, Insecta Mundi 2024 (30), pp. 1-16 : 3-4

Synopeas ventrale (Westwood)

Epimeces ventralis Westwood 1833a: 421 (original description).

Platygaster Abaris Walker, 1835: 230 (original description).

Synopeas Abaris (Walker) : Marshall, 1873: 27 (generic transfer); Kieffer, 1914: 430 (description).

Sactogaster Ventralis (Westwood) : Kieffer, 1914: 446 (description).

Synopeas abaris (Walker) : Masner, 1965: 140 (type information); Vlug and Graham, 1984: 128 (lectotype designation); Vlug, 1985: 207 (description of type, keyed); Buhl and Notton, 2009: 1700 (junior synonym of Synopeas ventrale (Westwood)) ; Vlug, 1995: 75 (cataloged, type information).

Sactogaster ventralis (Westwood) : Masner, 1965: 140 (type information); Vlug, 1973: 182 (material in Förster’s collection, NHMW); Walker, 1873: 542 (keyed); Kieffer, 1926: 664 (description, keyed); Förster, 1856: 152 (generic transfer, keyed); Fabritius and Grellmann, 1972: 55 (description).

Platygaster ventralis (Westwood) : Walker, 1835: 223 (description, generic transfer); Vlug, 1973: 182 (material in Förster’s collection, NHMW).

Synopeas (Sactogaster) ventralis (Westwood) : Kozlov, 1978: 538–664 (description, subgeneric assignment).

Synopeas ventralis (Westwood) : Vlug, 1995: 83 (cataloged, type information, generic transfer); Buhl, 1999: 38 (keyed).

Synopeas ventrale (Westwood) : Buhl and Notton, 2009: 1700 (description, cataloged, synonymy, distribution); Buhl and Bennett, 2011: 63 (new distribution record from Isle of Man); Awad et al., 2023: 33 (type information).

Material examined. Syntype female ( OXUM 0004), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

Scelionidae