Center for Systematic Entomology

Platygastroidea in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History: taxonomic updates and a photographic catalog of type specimens

Platygastroidea

  • Elijah J. Talamas

    Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Division of Plant Industry, 1911 SW 34th St. Gainesville, FL 32608, USA

  • Jessica Awad

    State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany

  • Francesco Tortorici

    Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Science University of Torino, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy

  • Norman F. Johnson

    The Ohio State University, Museum of Biological Diversity 1315 Kinnear Rd. Columbus, OH 43212, USA

ZooBank
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Abstract

High resolution images are provided for type specimens of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Apocrita) in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford University. We formally resurrect Trissoscelio Kieffer revised status to accommodate T. bifasciata (Dodd) new combination, T. indica (Mani) new combination, T. nigriceps Kieffer revised combination, T. ruficeps Kieffer revised combination, and T. punctaticeps Kieffer revised combination. Paridris subplana (Dodd) new combination is transferred from Sceliacantha Dodd to Paridris Kieffer and treated as a senior synonym of P. coorgensis Sharma.

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