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Closterocerus lanassa
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Subspecies
No subspecies are recognized.
Original
description
Synonyms
Entedon lanassa Walker, 1839
Achrysocharis lanassa (Walker, 1839)
Chrysonotomyia lanassa (Walker, 1839)
Closterocerus lanassa (Walker, 1839)
Eulophus debilis Foerster, 1841 (p. 42) (unclear synonym; see below)
Closterocerus debilis (Foerster, 1841)
Note: The taxon Eulophus debilis has been described by Foerster (1841)
in a short note that is not sufficient to recognize the species on the
basis of this description alone. Boucek (1994) has revised Hymenoptera
material in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien some of which he
suggested to be material from Foerster´s early collections in the
1840´s. Several specimens of this material are labelled "Secodes
debilis"; these specimens are not conspecific. One of these specimens
was selected as the lectotype of Eulophus debilis by Boucek (1994),
because it "fits well the original description". Boucek (1994) states
that this lectotype specimen is conspecific with the nominal Entedon
lanassa and therefore placed the name in synonymy. However, I am not
fully convinced by Boucek´s action. The specimen selected by
Boucek (1994) might indeed be conspecific with Closterocerus lanassa,
but it might not be the specimen of Eulophus debilis described by
Foerster (1841). Many of the color characters given in the original
description by Foerster (1841) do not fit the lectotype description of
Closterocerus lanassa. For example, the antennae of Eulophus debilis
are described as yellow, whereas the antennae of Closterocerus lanassa
are dark; the gaster of Eulophus debilis is described as green with
violet along the dorsal side, whereas the gaster of Closterocerus
lanassa is golden-green. Thus, it is unclear wether the specimen
selected as the lectotype of Eulophus debilis by Boucek (1994) is
indeed the correct specimen that was the basis for the original
description.
Identification
Distribution
Biology
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