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Ichneumon rufitarsis Smith 1874

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Laboratory of Insect Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kôbe University, Kôbe, Hyôgo, Japan; Research Fellow (DC 1 and Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tôkyô, Japan; Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
  • 2. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

Description

Ichneumon rufitarsis Smith, 1874

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Taxonomic history. Uchida (1939) transferred this species from Ichneumon Linnaeus, 1758 to Exephanes Wesmael, 1845; then, Townes et al. (1965) transferred it from Exephanes to Pterocormus Förster, 1850 (= Ichneumon).

Current taxonomy. Ichneumon rufitarsis Smith, 1874 (Ichneumonidae: Ichneumoninae: Ichneumonini).

Type number. Type 3b.1810. Specimen # NHMUK010634918

Type locality. Hyôgo Prefecture, Honshû, Japan.

Type status. Holotype.

Sex. Female.

Label data. First label, ‘Type’ (round label, with red margin; printed); second label, ‘B.M. TYPE /HYM./3b.1810’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third line handwriting); third label, ‘ Japan./Hiogo’ (square label; first line printed and second line handwriting); fourth label, ‘74/14’ (round label; handwriting); sixth label, ‘ Ich. rufitarsis / Type. Smith’ (square label; handwriting).

Condition. Rather good, but the antennae, third to fifth tarsomeres of right fore leg, fifth tarsomere of left fore leg, fourth to fifth tarsomeres of mid legs, and second to fifth tarsomeres of hind legs are all lost.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1115-1198 in Journal of Natural History 54 (17) on page 1146, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1776905, http://zenodo.org/record/4116141

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/3E7687E8A54DFFF8AEF74692FDB71C37

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4116181 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1776905 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4116141 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/C24FFF90A56DFFD8AF33461CFF9D187C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/22F74559-4F79-47B2-81DB-34C6C3B5729F (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/3E7687E8A54DFFF8AEF74692FDB71C37 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/168507417 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/9719/taxon/3E7687E8A54DFFF8AEF74692FDB71C37.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMUK
Material sample ID
NHMUK010634918
Scientific name authorship
Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Eulophidae
Genus
Ichneumon
Species
rufitarsis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Ichneumon rufitarsis Smith, 1874 sec. Shimizu & Broad, 2020

References

  • Smith F. 1874. Description of new species of Tenthredinidae, Ichneumonidae, Chrysididae, Formicidae etc. of Japan. Trans Entomol Soc London. 1874: 373 - 409.
  • Uchida T. 1939. Die smithschen Typen der japanischen Ichneumoniden. Insecta Matsumurana. 14: 27 - 36.
  • Linnaeus CV. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae: Laurnetii Salvii; 824 pp.
  • Wesmael C. 1845. Tentamen dispositionis methodicae. Ichneumonum Belgii. Nouveaux Mem Acad R Sci Lett et Beaux-Arts Belg. 18: 1 - 239.
  • Townes HK, Momoi S, Townes M. 1965. A catalogue and reclassification of the eastern Palearctic Ichneumonidae. Mem Am Entomol Inst. 5: 1 - 661.
  • Forster A. 1850. Monographie der Gattung Pezomachus, Grav. Archiv Naturgeschichte. 16: 49 - 232.