Ceraphron barbieri Dessart 1975

Fig. 10

Ceraphron barbieri Dessart, 1975: 47, 50, ♂, ♀. ZMUC, ISNB, MNHN, MHNG. Keyed.

Ceraphron (Allomicrops) barbieri – Dessart 1981a: 3. Subgeneric assignment.

Allotype

FRANCE • ♀; “ Contre mur / dans la / maison, Dijon / 4–VIII–1973 / C. D’or. J. Barbier ” (Dessart 1975: 49); MNHN EY25349, EY22449.

Nearctic and palearctic.

Dessart described the species from three male and two female specimens. According to Dessart (1975), the male holotype and one male paratype are deposited at the Zoological Museum at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (ZMUC), which was indicated in Johnson & Musetti (2004). However, missing from Johnson & Musetti (2004), there is another male paratype at the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium (ISNB), a female paratype in the Cl. Bésuchet collection in the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG), and a female allotype in the J. Barbier collection in the MNHN. The female allotype specimen is card mounted (MNHN EY25349), and there is one microscope preparation (prép. no. 7312/141) with the right antenna (MNHN EY22449).

There are a few errors and inconsistencies in the original publication. Dessart (1975) gives the identifier used for the allotype specimen as “N°7312/111”, but the actual number on both the specimens and the slides is N°7312/141. The label information given in the paper matches the specimen, although Dessart (1975: 49) reports an additional label saying “Contre mur / dans la / maison” which is missing from the actual specimen. Still, there is no doubt that this is the allotype specimen Dessart studied in describing Ceraphron barbieri.