Laelius femoralis (Forster 1860)
- Dataset
- Parasitoid wasps new to Britain (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Eurytomidae, Braconidae & Bethylidae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Bethylidae
- genus
- Laelius
- species
- Laelius femoralis
discussion
Remarks Berland (1928) studied the female types of L. macrocerus and L. nigricrus (in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris) and could not find any difference between them, so he synonymised the two names. It was first suggested that L. microneurus was a synonym of L. femoralis by de Rond (in Vikberg & Koponen 2005) and from subsequent examination of all the types, including the female neotype of L. femoralis (in the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden), de Rond has come to the conclusion that both L. microneurus and L. nigricrus are junior synonyms of L. femoralis. This means that the species in Britain referred to as L. microneurus by Perkins (1976) should now be called L. femoralis.
materials_examined
Material examined ENGLAND: Berkshire, Silwood Park, 18 Aug. 1975, dead spruce, O. W. Richards, B. M. 1967 - 510; Kent, Beckenham, 9 Jul. 1972, D. E. Kimmins; Surrey, Kew, 17 Jul. 1977, from Crataegus Linnaeus, 1753, specimen number 15,576, V. F. Eastop (all BMNH).