Aphanogmus radialis Kieffer 1907
Creators: name: Trietsch, Carolyn
name: Mikó, István
name: Deans, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ceraphronidae
Aphanogmus
Aphanogmus radialis

description: Aphanogmus radialis Kieffer, 1907   
Fig. 8  
 Aphanogmus Fasciipennis var. radialis Kieffer, 1907b: 199, ♀. MNHN.   
 Aphanogmus radialis Kieffer, 1914c: 116, 118. Description, change to species status, keyed. — Szelényi 1940: 125. Keyed.   
 Aphanogmus fasciipennis var. radialis – Kelner-Pillault 1958: 149. Type information.   Material examined  
 Holotype   
FRANCE • ♀; “Bitche, en octobre” (Kieffer, 1907b: 199); MNHN EY25347, EY22466, EY22467.  Distribution  
Palearctic.  Comments  
 Thomson (1858: 305) described the species Aphanogmus fasciipennis from male and female specimens from Lund, and described a female variation from the same locality that differed in the following regard: “antennarum basi pedibusque testaceis, abdomine. piceo.”. Kieffer (1907b: 199) keyed out the species   
 and also described a female variation of his own with different coloration and antennal characters, collected from “Bitche, en octobre”, which he named radialis.   
It is unclear whether the female variations described by Thomson and Kieffer are the same; though Kieffer’s variation was collected from a different locality than Thomson’s, it is described in a similar way, with a lighter coloration on the antenna, legs and abdomen. Kieffer (1914c) later changed his variation to species status. Kelner-Pillault (1958) reported a female found in Kieffer’s collection in Bitche, which was considered a holotype and donated to the MNHN.  
 Dessart (1963a) redescribed Aphanogmus fasciipennis and briefly discussed the variation Thomson had described. However, the only specimen of the variation Dessart had viewed for this publication was missing from the mount except for a few tarsi, so he was unable to determine if it was actually a different species or not. Dessart did not view the holotype female specimen at the MNHN until 1966, according to the label he placed on the specimen. Dessart dissected the female specimen and made two slide mounts (prép. no. 6605/252), leaving the rest of the specimen on its point mount (MNHN EY25347). One slide contains the anterior left wing and posterior right wing (MNHN EY22466), while the other has the complete left antenna and fragments of the right antenna (MNHN EY22467).   
 Though Dessart (1966a) discusses several of the MNHN specimens, this specimen is not one of them. It appears that Dessart dissected the specimen in 1966 but then left it out of the final publication. According to Johnson & Musetti (2004), Dessart never published any further papers discussing Aphanogmus fasciipennis or A. radialis. He did add a label to the holotype female at the MNHN commenting “=A. fasc. f. typique!”, but he never officially synonymized it with Aphanogmus fasciipennis Thomson, 1858 (Johnson & Musetti 2004). While the original specimen bears a holotype label, Dessart did not add any holotype labels to his slide preparations: instead, he marked them with Kieffer’s original determination, Aphanogmus fasciipennis var. radialis.   
 Genus Ceraphron Jurine, 1807
description: Published as part of Trietsch, Carolyn, Mikó, István & Deans, Andrew R., 2019, A photographic catalog of Ceraphronoidea types at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN), with comments on unpublished notes from Paul Dessart, pp. 1-60 in European Journal of Taxonomy 502 on pages 17-19, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.502, http://zenodo.org/record/2581898