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Ambositra famosa Masner 1961

  • 1. Department of Entomology, National Museum of the Czech Republic, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 193 00 Praha-Horní Počernice, Czech Republic & E-mail: tomas. hovorka @ nm. cz; ORCID: https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6887 - 2644
  • 2. Department of Entomology, National Museum of the Czech Republic, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 193 00 Praha-Horní Počernice, Czech Republic & E-mail: jan. macek @ nm. cz; ORCID: https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3104 - 325 X

Description

Ambositra famosa Masner, 1961

(Fig. 1)

Ambositra famosa Masner, 1961: 294–295, figs 3, 4, 5–11 (original description).

Three paratypes are deposited in NMPC (type collection):

PARATYPF (♀): ʻCOLL.MUS. CONGO / Madagascar:Mandraka / II–1944 / A. Seyrig [p] // Ambositra ♀ / famosa n.g. n.sp. / Det. L. Masner, 1958 [hw, pencil] // Paratypus [hw, pink label]ʼ (Fig. 1).

PARATYPF (♀): ʻCOLL.MUS. CONGO / Madagascar: Ambositra / II–1944 / A. Seyrig [p] // Ambositra ♀ / famosa n.g. n.sp. / Det. L. Masner, 1958 [hw, pencil] // Paratypus [hw, pink label]ʼ.

PARATYPF (♀): ʻMadagaskar / Mandraka / A. Seyrig [hw] / II.1944 [hw, vertically written] // Ambositra ♀ / famosa n.g. n.sp. / Det. L. Masner, 1958 [hw, pencil] // Paratypus [hw, pink label]ʼ.

Current status. Valid species (JoHNsoN 1992, NoTToN 2007 and MADL 2015).

Distribution. Afrotropical, known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar and South Africa (MAsNFR 1961, JoHNsoN 1992, NoTToN 2007 and MADL 2015).

Genus Betyla Cameron, 1899

Notes

Published as part of Hovorka, Tomáš & Macek, Jan, 2024, Catalogue of type specimens of the superfamily Diaprioidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the National Museum of the Czech Republic, pp. 501-557 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 64 (2) on page 502, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2024.032, http://zenodo.org/record/14655154

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Masner
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Diapriidae
Genus
Ambositra
Species
famosa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ambositra famosa Masner, 1961 sec. Hovorka & Macek, 2024

References

  • MASNER L. 1961: Ambositrinae, a new subfamily of Diapriidae from Madagascar and central Africa (Hymenoptera Proctotrupoidea). Memoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar, Serie E 12: 289 - 295.
  • JOHNSON N. F. 1992: Catalog of world species of Proctotrupoidea, exclusive of Platygastridae (Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 51: 1 - 825.
  • NOTTON D. G. 2007: A catalogue of types of the smaller taxa of Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera) in the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, with notes on the history of the insect collection of LAG Bosc d'Antic. Zoosystema 29 (3): 457 - 470.
  • MADL M. 2015: A catalogue of the families Ceraphronidae, Megaspilidae (Ceraphronoidea), Diapriidae (Diaprioidea) and Proctotrupidae (Proctotrupoidea) of the Malagasy subregion (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beitrage 47 (1): 621 - 652.