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Revision of the Haliday Collection of Braconidae (Hymenoptera) Revision of the Haliday collection of Braconidae (Hymenoptera) C. van Achterberg C. van Achterberg. Revision of the Haliday collection of Braconidae (Hymenoptera). Zool. Verh. Leiden 314,30.xii.1997:1-115, figs 1-33.— ISSN 0024-1652/ISBN 90-73239-57-5. C. van Achterberg, Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Afdeling Entomologie (Hymenoptera), Post• bus 9517,2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands (e-mail: [email protected]). Key words: Braconidae; Adeliinae; Agathidinae; Alysiinae; Aphidiinae; Blacinae; Cenocoeliinae; Charmontinae; Doryctinae; Euphorinae; Exothecinae; Gnamptodontinae; Helconinae; Macrocentrinae; Miracinae; Microgastrinae; Opiinae; Pambolinae; Rhysipolinae; Rhyssalinae; Rogadinae; Palaearctic; Neotropical; Australian. The type-series of the taxa of the family Braconidae described by A.H. Haliday (1806-1870) are reviewed, 99 lectotypes are designated, 24 new synonyms and 22 new combinations are given. Lecto- types are designated for the following nominal species: Alysia (Dacnusa) abdita Haliday, 1839; Opius (Opius) aethiops Haliday, 1836; Microgaster albipennis Haliday, 1834; Alysia (Alysia) ancilla Haliday, 1838; Alysia (Alysia) angustula Haliday, 1838; Microgaster annularis Haliday, 1834; Leiophron antennalis Hincks, 1943; Leiophron apicalis Haliday, 1833; Microgaster arenarius Haliday, 1834; Colastes braconius Haliday, 1833; Opius (Opius) caesus Haliday, 1836; Microgaster callidus Haliday, 1834; Microgaster can- didatus Haliday, 1834; Opius (Opius) celsus Haliday, 1836; Alysia (Alysia) cephalotes Haliday, 1833; Opius (Opius) clarus Haliday, 1836; Rhyssalus clavator Haliday, 1833; Alysia (Alysia) compressa Haliday, 1838; Alysia (Alysia) concinna Haliday, 1838; Alysia (Alysia) conspurcator Haliday, 1838; Rogas (Clinocentrus) cunctator Haliday, 1836; Ancylus cuspidatus Haliday, 1833; Rogas (Colastes) decorator Haliday, 1836; Microgaster decorus Haliday, 1834; Bracon delibator Haliday, 1833; Microgaster dilectus Haliday, 1834; Rogas dispor Haliday, 1833; Leiophron (Ancylus) edentatus Haliday, 1835; Microgaster equestris Haliday, 1834; Alysia (Alysia) eugenia Haliday, 1838; Alysia (Alysia) eunice Haliday, 1838:; Leiophron (Ancylus) excrucians Haliday, 1835; Rogas (Clinocentrus) excubitor Haliday, 1836; Microgaster exiguus Haliday, 1834; Microgaster exilis Haliday, 1834; Opius (Opius) exilis Haliday, 1836; Perilitus (Meteorus) filator Haliday, 1835; Microgaster flavipes Haliday, 1834; Helcon (Eubadizon) flavipes Haliday, 1835; Alysia (Aly• sia) flavipes Haliday, 1838; Alysia (Alysia) flaviventris Haliday, 1838; Alysia (Dacnusa) lateralis var. fuscula Haliday, 1839; Alysia (Alysia) galatea Haliday, 1838; Acaelius germanus Haliday, 1834; Opius (Opius) hae- morrhoeus Haliday, 1836; Microgaster Maris Haliday, 1834; Microgaster immunis Haliday, 1834; Rogas (Doryctes) imperator Haliday, 1836; Microgaster infumatus Haliday, 1834; Alysia (Alysia) jaculans Hali• day, 1838; Microgaster lateralis Haliday, 1834; Alysia (Dacnusa) lateralis Haliday, 1839; Leiophron (Ancy• lus) lituratus Haliday, 1835; Alysia (Alysia) livida Haliday, 1838; Opius (Opius) lugens Haliday, 1836; Alysia (Dacnusa) lugens Haliday, 1839; Alysia (Alysia) maculipes Haliday, 1838; Alysia (Dacnusa) margin- alts Haliday, 1839; Alysia (Alysia) maria Haliday, 1838; Microgaster mediator Haliday, 1834; Rogas (Colastes) meditator Haliday, 1836; Microgaster meridianus Haliday, 1834; Microgaster messorius Haliday, 1834; Aphidius (Trioxys) minutus Haliday, 1833; Ancylus muricatus Haliday, 1833; Alysia (Chorebus) naia- dum Haliday, 1839; Alysia (Alysia) nephele Haliday, 1838; Alysia (Chorebus) nereidum Haliday, 183; Aly• sia (Alysia) nina Haliday, 1838; Diospilus oleraceus Haliday, 1833; Opius (Opius) pactus Haliday, 1836; Opius (Opius) pendulus Haliday, 1836; Microgaster praepotens Haliday, 1834; Perilitus (Meteorus) profliga• tor Haliday, 1835; Alysia (Alysia) pullata Haliday, 1838; Alysia (Dacnusa) pulverosa Haliday, 1839; Rogas (Heterospilus) quaestor Haliday, 1836; Microgaster rubripes Haliday, 1834; Microgaster rufricrus Haliday, 1834; Microgaster russatus Haliday, 1834; Opius (Opius) rusticus Haliday, 1836; Opius (Opius) saevus Haliday, 1836; Microgaster spectabilis Haliday, 1834; Microgaster spinolae Haliday, 1834; Opius (Opius) spretus Haliday, 1836; Alysia (Alysia) sylvia Haliday, 1839; Opius (Opius) sylvaticus Haliday, 1836; Adeli- us subfasciatus Haliday, 1833; Rogas (Doryctes) tabidus Haliday, 1836; Opius (Opius) tacitus Haliday, 1836; Helcon (Calyptus) tibialis Haliday, 1835; Blacus (Blacus) trivialis Haliday, 1835; Alysia (Dacnusa) uliginosa Haliday, 1839; Microgaster umbellatarum Haliday, 1834; Microgaster vestalis Haliday, 1834; 4 Van Achterberg. Haliday Braconidae. Zool. Verh. Leiden 314 (1997) Rogas (Clinocentrus) vestigator Haliday, 1836; Opius (Opius) victus Haliday, 1836; and Opius (Opius) wes- maelii Haliday, 1836. The following new synonyms are proposed: Microgaster coniferae Haliday, 1834, with M. candidatus Haliday, 1834; M. exiguus Haliday, 1834, and M. umbellatarum Haliday, 1834,, with M. bicolor Nees, 1834; M. ingratus Haliday, 1834, with M. deprimator Fabricius, 1798; M. spinolae Haliday, 1834, and M. grandis Thomson, 1895, with M. meridianus Haliday, 1834; M. tibialis Nees, 1834 (not Curtis, 1830), with M. messorius Haliday, 1834; M. ater Ratzeburg, 1852, with M. sodalis Haliday, 1834; Bracon anthracinus Nees, 1834 with B. delibator Haliday, 1834; Opius docilis Haliday, 1836, with O. reconditor Wesmael, 1835; O. exilis Haliday, 1836, with O. pallipes Wesmael, 1835; Rogas medianus Thomson, 1892, with R. nobilis Haliday, 1834; Apanteles memnon Nixon, 1974, with Microgaster praepotens Haliday, 1834; Dacnusa marsyas Nixon, 1937, with Alysia pulverosa Haliday, 1839; Dapsilarthra carpathica van Achter• berg, 1983, with Alysia sylvia Haliday, 1839; Apanteles melitaearum Wilkinson, 1937, with Microgaster vestalis Haliday, 1834; and Neoneurus viennense (Giraud, 1871) with Ecclites clypeatus Foerster, 1862. The following genera are synonymized: Fovephedrus Chen, 1986, with Ephedrus Haliday, 1833; Aenone Haliday, 1833, Aenone Curtis, 1837, Oenone Haliday, 1839, Symphya Foerster, 1862, and Anarmus Ruthe, 1882, with Trachionus Haliday, 1833; Sixia Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1867, with Neoneurus Hali• day, 1838. The following new combinations are made: Apodesmia aemula (Haliday, 1836); Phaedrotoma aethiops (Haliday, 1836); Peristenus antennalis (Hincks, 1943) stat. nov.; Xynobius bajulus (Haliday, 1836); Chilo- trichia blanda (Haliday, 1836); Xynobius caelatus (Haliday, 1836); Phaedrotoma caesa (Haliday, 1836); P. celsa (Haliday, 1836); Dinotrema concinnum (Haliday, 1838); Cotesia immunis (Haliday, 1834); Eubazus lepidus (Haliday, 1835); Phaedrotoma pacta (Haliday, 1836); Euphorus pallidistigma (Curtis, 1833); Cotesia popularis (Haliday, 1834); Chaenusa lymphata (Haliday, 1839); Phaedrotoma reconditor (Wesmael, 1835)); Trachionus ringens (Haliday, 1839); Paraorthostigma rufiventre (Nees, 1834; Apodesmia saeva (Haliday, 1836); Eubazus tibialis (Haliday, 1835); Phaedrotoma tacita (Haliday, 1836); and Atormus victus (Haliday, 1836). A new key to the West Palaearctic species of the genus Allurus Foerster, 1862 is given. Aleiodes tricolor (Haliday, 1836) and Heterospilus quaestor Haliday, 1836 are redescribed and illustrated, and one new genus, Atormus (type species: Opius victus Haliday, 1836) is described and illustrated. Contents Introduction ..4 Recognition of type specimens ..6 Date of publication of Haliday's papers on Braconidae ..9 List of taxa described by Haliday 10 Acknowledgements and abbreviations 90 References 90 Index 99 Introduction The Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday (1806-1870) is one of the most important 19th century authorities on Braconidae, followed next by the Belgian hymenopterist Constantin Wesmael (1798-1872). Their work is fundamental to the taxonomy of Palaearctic Braconidae. Haliday's descriptions are precise and his type series are only seldomly mixed. However, his collection is largely unlabelled and in most cases the number of specimens used in the description of a new species is not mentioned. Wesmael was better in these two respects, but his series are sometimes less homogeneous. A short description of the life and social setting of Haliday with Van Achterberg. Haliday Braconidae. Zool. Verh. Leiden 314 (1997) 5 his photograph are given by Beirne (1985) and an obituary has been published by Wright (1902). Haliday was born at Holywood, County Down (Ireland), a member of well-off Anglo-Irish country gentry. He was a cultured, retiring, quiet-mannered, meticulous perfectionist, who shunned publicity. According to Osten-Sacken (cited in Beirne, 1985) Haliday had an intense desire to be useful, by imparting useful knowl• edge to others, unmindful of the amount of work it involved. Haliday published his first paper on Braconidae when he was 27 and finished publishing on the family only seven years later. He also published on Diptera and Thysanoptera, and in all these groups his papers are fundamental. However, the small parasitic Hymenoptera was his special interest. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of what is left of the type material of Braconidae belonging to the Haliday collection and, as far as possible, to recognize types, to label them and to re-identify the taxa described by Haliday according to mod• ern insights. The collection has been often neglected by subsequent workers on Braconi• dae (e.g. T.A. Marshall and G.E.J. Nixon). The history of the Haliday collection is well summarised
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