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Trigastrotheca romani Quicke

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Braconinae; Genus: Trigastrotheca)

Ichneumon costator Thunberg, 1824. Type in Museum of Evolution, Zoology, Uppsala University, Sweden (UPSZ). Type Locality: Cap. b. spei (Cape of Good Hope), South Africa.

Trigastrotheca romani Quicke, 2005. Replacement name for Ichneumon costator Thunberg, 1822 junior homonym of Ichneumon costator Donovan, 1810.


Type UPSZTY115503 in Museum of Evolution, Zoology, Uppsala University, Sweden (UPSZ)

 


Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Unknown.

Comments

Thunberg in his 1822 and 1824 papers, published 308 new names. In the first paper (1822), he listed 596 Ichneumon names and gave a short description for each. In the second paper (1824) he gave the status of each name, either that it was just a redescription of an already available name or that it was a new name, with a more detailed description and the type location of each new name. Thus 1824 paper should be considered as the completion of a nomenclatural act started in 1822, and therefore the year of publications of the new names from these two papers should be considered as 1824 (Horstmann, 1999).

References

Horstmann, K. 1999. Zur Interpretation der von Thunberg in der Gattung Ichneumon Linnaeus beschriebenen oder benannten Arten (Hymenoptera). Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen 51: 65-74.

Quicke, D.L.J. & Stanton, M. L. 2005. Trigastrotheca laikipiensis sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A new species of brood parasitic wasp that attacks foundress queens of three coexisting Acacia-ant species in Kenya. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 14(2):182-190.

Thunberg, C.P. 1824. Ichneumonidea, Insecta Hymenoptera illustrata. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg 9: 285-368.

Credits

Photographs © Hans Mejlon (Museum of Evolution, Zoology, Uppsala University, Sweden).

Map Illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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