Macrus apicifer Walker, 1874

Shimizu, So & Broad, Gavin R., 2020, Photographic catalogue of the oldest primary types of Japanese Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), those described by Frederick Smith and Francis Walker in 1874, Journal of Natural History 54 (17), pp. 1115-1198 : 1183-1184

Macrus apicifer Walker, 1874

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Taxonomic history. Morley (1913b) transferred this species to Syzeuctus Förster, 1869 .

Current taxonomy. Syzeuctus apicifer ( Walker, 1874) ( Ichneumonidae : Banchinae : Atrophini ).

Type number. Type 3b.1077. Specimen # NHMUK010881030

Type status. Holotype.

Sex. Female.

Type locality. Japan.

Label data. First label, ‘Type’ (round label, with red margin; printed); second label, ‘B.M. TYPE /HYM./3.b.1077.’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third line handwriting); third label, ‘ Japan./Coll.F. Walker./ 1913–71.’ (square label; printed); fourth label, ‘262’ (square label; handwriting); fifth label, ‘ Macrus /apicifer’ (square label; handwriting). Condition. Not bad; right antenna 6th flagellomere, left antenna after 7th flagellomere, hind tarsi and one ovipositor sheath missing, but one flagellomere and an ovipositor sheath glued to card.

Figures

Figure 44. Holotype female of Macrus apicifer Walker, 1874 (= Syzeuctus apicifer (Walker, 1874)): (a) labels (b) lateral habitus (c) head, frontal view (d) head, dorsal view (e) head, lateral view (f) mesoscutum and scutellum, dorsal view (g) propodeum, dorsal view (h) mesosoma, lateral view (i) wings (j) metasoma, dorsal view.