Alaptus minimus Westwood 1839

Alaptus minimus Westwood, 1839 (Figs 86–110) Alaptus minimus Westwood 1839: 79. Type locality: unknown (United Kingdom, most likely England). Alaptus minimus Westwood (or, sometimes, incorrectly either as Walker or Haliday in Walker): Walker 1846: 51 (very short diagnosis); Kirchner 1867: 201 (catalog); Dalla Torre 1898: 428 (catalog); Girault 1908: 182 (history, list only: see “Comments” under A. antennatus); Soyka 1939a: 17 –18 (historical review, redescription of female, incorrect type designations); Soyka 1939b: 30 (key); Debauche 1948: 55 –56 (list, key), 59–60 (diagnosis of female, remarks), plate VII (illustrations); Soyka 1948: 75 (key); Debauche 1949: 10 –12 (redescription); Kryger 1950: 33 (a good species), 35 (diagnosis, host associations, distribution, in part); Soyka 1950: 121 (distribution); Hincks 1959: 139 –144 (historical review, type material, key, synonymy, diagnosis, illustrations, distribution); Boţoc 1963: 95 –96 (diagnosis, measurements), 98 (illustrations); New 1969: 182 –192 (biology); Hellén 1974: 14 –15 (key, diagnosis, distribution); Trjapitzin 1978: 523 (key, distribution); Donev 1978: 458 –459 (distribution); Graham 1982: 194 (designation of paralectotypes); Donev 1985a: 62 (distribution); Donev 1985b: 66 (distribution); Donev 1987: 75 (distribution); Donev 1988a: 178 (distribution); Donev 1988b: 205 (distribution); Viggiani & Jesu 1988: 1020 (distribution in Italy); Pagliano & Navone 1995: 35 (list); Viggiani & van Harten 1996: 72 –73 (record from Santiago Island, Cape Verde); Pricop 2009: 123 (list); Pricop 2013: 72, 74 (illustrations, 78 (distribution); Triapitsyn 2015: 218 (list). Alaptus intonsipennis Girault 1910: 244 –245. Type locality: Hendrix (near Bloomington, in a waiting-room of a railway station), McLean Co., Illinois, USA. Syn. n. Alaptus intonsipennis Girault: Girault 1911b: 323 (list); Frison 1927: 266 (lectotype designation); Girault 1929: 10 (key); Soyka 1939b: 31 (list); Peck 1963: 28 (catalog). Parvulinus auranti García Mercet 1912: 332 (illustrations), 333–335. Type locality: Valencia, Spain. Syn. n. Alaptus maccabei Girault 1913c: 109. Type locality (of the lectotype): Herberton, Queensland, Australia. Lectotype female [QMBA], designated by Dahms 1984: 780, examined (Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy 2004). Syn. n. Alaptus maccabei Girault 1914: 111. Type locality (of the “Type”, which is the same specimen as the lectotype of A. maccabei Girault, 1913): Herberton, Queensland, Australia. Parvulinus auranti Mercet: Girault 1913a: 221 (likely a synonym of A. minimus); Peck 1963: 26 (catalog). Alaptus borinquensis Dozier 1932: 90 –91. Type locality: Río Piedras (formerly a municipality, now part of San Juan), Puerto Rico (USA). Syn. n. Alaptus maidli Soyka 1939b: 28 –29, 30 (key). Type locality: St. Ignatius Jesuit College (Ignatiuskolleg), Valkenburg, Limburg, Netherlands. Syn. n. Alaptus maccabaei [sic] Girault: Soyka 1939b: 31 (list). Alaptus malchinensis Soyka 1948: 71 –72, 75 (key). Type locality: Jettchenshof (as “ Jettchens Hof ”; a farm adjacent to the woods, ca. 1 km E of Pisede, ca. 53°46’N 12°46’E, 12 m, formerly in Landkreis Demmin), Malchin, Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Syn. n. Parvulinus aurantii Mercet (misspelling): Debauche 1948: 55 (list); Nikol’skaya 1952: 540–541 (incorrect host associations, illustrations, species identification likely incorrect); Shutova & Kukhtina 1955: 216 (list). Alaptus maidli Soyka: Debauche 1948: 55 –56 (list, key); Soyka 1948: 75 (key); Trjapitzin 1978: 523 (key, distribution); Donev 1987: 75 (distribution); Donev 1988b: 205 (distribution). Alaptus crassus Kryger 1950: 33 [as A. crassus Enock]. Type locality (of the lectotype designated by Hincks 1959: 142): Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex Co., England, UK. Synonymized under A. minimus by Hincks 1959: 141 –142. Alaptus parvulinus [sic] Mercet: Kryger 1950: 35 (list). Alaptus uncinatus Kryger 1950: 36 [as A. uncinatus Enock]. Type locality (of the lectotype designated by Hincks 1959: 142): Richmond, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, UK. Synonymized under A. minimus by Hincks 1959: 141 –142. Alaptus aegyptiacus Soyka 1950: 121 –122. Type locality: Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt. Syn. n. Alaptus auranti (Mercet): Peck 1963: 26 (catalog); Yoshimoto 1990: 23 (list). Alaptus borinquensis Dozier: De Santis 1979: 362 (catalog); Huber & Noyes 2013: 18 (mentioned), 36 (type information, body length measurements), 38 (mentioned). Alaptus malchinensis Soyka: Vidal 2001: 60 (list). Alaptus maccabei Girault: Lin et al. 2007: 21 (list). Alaptus aegyptiacus Soyka: Huber et al. 2009: 271 (list). Type material examined. Alaptus minimus Westwood: lectotype female [NMID], designated by Hincks 1959: 141 and remounted by W.D. Hincks from the original card (Fig. 86), on slide (Fig. 88) labeled: 1. “ Alaptus minimus Haliday in Walker, 1846. LECTOTYPE [in red ink] ♀”, 2. “From Card 97 Haliday coll. in National Mus. Dublin. Selected by W. D. Hincks I.1958 Mtd. in Gum Chloral.”. The specimen is dirty but otherwise in fair condition, mounted dorsoventrally, lacking one fore leg and both middle legs. The water-soluble, gum chloral-based mounting medium (Berlese fluid or Hoyer’s) has already dried near the edges under the large coverslip, so eventually the lectotype will need to be remounted in Canada balsam; that needs to be done before the dry areas reach and potentially rupture the specimen. The slide is in a MMUE-style brown envelope (Fig. 87) labeled: “ Alaptus minimus Haliday in Walker, 1846. LECTOTYPE [in red ink] ♀ Selected by W D Hincks I.1958 Haliday Collection, National Museum, Dublin From Card no. 97 Mounted in Gum Chloral.”. In the main A.H. Haliday collection of Mymaridae in NMID, there is a pin above the printed label “1 minimus Walk. ” (Fig. 86) with a note written by W.D. Hincks: “Card 97 LECTOTYPE [in red ink] of Alaptus minimus Haliday in Walker, 1846 Selected by W. D. Hincks I.1958 and mounted on a glass slide”. Also a paralectotype female [OUMNH], designated by Graham 1982: 194, on card labeled: 1. “5”, 2. “ Alaptus minimus Wlk. Haliday Coll ”, 3. [M.R.W. de Vere Graham’s number] “W12”. The specimen, which is in good condition, was listed by Graham (1982: 238) as “ Alaptus? minimus Westwood ♀”. Alaptus aegyptiacus Soyka: apparently the holotype female [ISNB] on slide (Fig. 100) labeled: 1. “ Alaptus ♀ aegyptiacus (Soyka) 9.III.32. Coll. Soyka”, 2. [red] “Para-Type”, 3. “R. I. Sc. Nat. Belg. L. G. 17.724”, 4. “J. Ghesquière vid., 1951!”, 5. “Alexandria on Oleander with Saissetia oleae Aspid. hederae Pseud. longispinus ”. Even though this specimen (Fig. 101), which is in good condition, mounted laterally, and complete, is labeled as a “Para-Type”, it has to be the holotype because its label data matches its published data perfectly (Soyka 1950); W. Soyka probably had not marked the types of this species initially and mislabeled it later. The allotype male (also from Alexandria, Egypt), from which this species was described besides the holotype female, is likely lost from PPDD along with the other W. Soyka’s types of the Egyptian Mymaridae deposited there (Magdy Salem, personal communication). The following non-type specimens, identified by W. Soyka as A. aegyptiacus, were examined: 1 female [NHMW] on slide labeled: 1. “ Alaptus ♀ aegyptiacus (Soyka) ”, 2. [red] “Co-Type”, 3. “Chalcid [crossed out] Guava Mataria [likely = Al Mataria, (El-Zaitoun), Cairo, Egypt] 243. 24-3-21 ” [the specimen was likely collected by the coccidologist [W.J.] Hall (Soyka 1950)]; 1 male [NHMW] on slide labeled: 1. “ Alaptus ♂ aegyptiacus (Soyka) ”, 2. [red] “Co-Type”, 3. “Alexandria on Eggs of Psocid 22.4.33 ”; 1 female [NHMW] on slide labeled: 1. “ Alaptus ♀ aegyptiacus (Soyka) ”, 2. [an empty red label], 3. [scratched on glass] “Chalcid sp. Jasmine Zaitoun 5/II – 19/3/21]” (also likely collected by W.J. Hall). Parvulinus auranti García Mercet: I examined 3 female syntypes, all on slides, on loan from MNCN (no type specimens were mentioned in the original description besides their type locality). Lectotype female [MNCN], here designated to avoid the existing confusion regarding the status of the type specimens of this taxon, on slide (Fig. 89) labeled: 1. [partially in pencil, India ink, and printed] “ 9-XI- 911 tipo gen. Parvulinus auranti Mercet Naranja Valencia Prep. J. Sanz”; 2. [red] “MNCN Cat. Tipos N o 10309”; 3. [database number] “MNCN_Ent 120126 ”. The lectotype (Fig. 90), collected on 9.xi.1911, is in good condition, complete, mounted dorsoventrally in what appears to be a well-preserved Hoyer’s medium; if this is indeed the case, it may eventually need to be remounted in a permanent medium such as Canada balsam. Paralectotypes [MNCN]: two females on individual slides with the similar label data as on the lectotype slide except for the different collection dates and database numbers but lacking “tipo” inscription in India ink and the red type number label: 1 complete female, “ 19-IV- 912”, MNCN_Ent 120123; and appendages and 1 mandible dissected from another female (“ 7-XI- 911”, MNCN_Ent 120123), under 1 coverslip in a completely dried Hoyer’s medium (apparently the illustrations provided in the original description were made from this slide); 3 other females on slides in MNCN (not examined), with the same original label data except for the following collection dates: “ 25-XI- 911”, “ 29-XI- 911”, and “ 30-XI- 911” (Mercedes París, personal communication). Also 1 paralectotype female [DEZA] on slide labeled: 1. “ Parvulinus auranti Mercet naranja [in pencil] Valencia Prep. J. Sanz”; 2. “ Alaptus minimus Halid. ♀ ” (in G. Viggiani’s handwriting). Alaptus borinquensis Dozier: lectotype female [USNM], here designated to avoid the existing confusion about the status of the specimens of the type series and the identity of this species, on slide (Fig. 109) labeled: 1. “ Alaptus borinquensis Dozier 1 ♀ Reared from Asterolecanium pustulans mater

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