Ecdamua macrotelus Walker 1862
Creators: name: Janšta, Petr
name: Bouček, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Torymidae
Ecdamua
Ecdamua macrotelus

description: Ecdamua macrotelus Walker, 1862   
 Ecdamua macrotelus Walker, 1862: 388.   
 Ecdamua macrotelus: BOUČEK (1976): 347, GRISSELL (1995): 188, ZAVADA (2005): 159.   
 Diomorus magnificus Risbec, 1955a: 183 (3 ♀♀); syn. nov.   
 Diomorus magnificus: RISBEC (1955b): 574.   
 Type material. Ecdamua macrotelus: LECTOTYPE: ♀, ‘ Port Natal [Durban], Republic of South Africa’ (BMNH). Diomorus magnificus: SYNTYPE ♀ ‘ Madagaskar / Bekily / III. 30 / A. Seyrig // Museum Paris // P. Janšta & Z. Bouček det.’ (MNHN).   
 Additional material examined. ZIMBABWE: Salisbury (= Harare), Chishawasha, viii. 1979, A. Watsham (1 ♀, BMNH). Makumbi Miss., iv.1975, A. Watsham (4 JJ 1 ♀, BMNH). MADAGSCAR: Bekily, II. 37, A. Seyrig (1 ♀, MNHN). MAURITIUS: Rose hill, 29.iii.1933, Ray. Mamet (1 ♀, BMNH). BOTSWANA: 18 mls. NE Kalkfontein, 12.-13.iv.1972, Southern African Exp. (1 J 1 ♀, BMNH).   
 Distribution. Kenya, Republic of South Africa, Uganda (BOUČEK 1976, GRISSELL 1995); Sierra Leone (ZAVADA 2005); new for Botswana, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Zimbabwe.   
 Comments. RISBEC’ s (1955a) description of Diomorus magnificus is based on three female syntypes from Madagascar (locality Bekily), one of them collected in March 1930, the other two in April 1933. The species was keyed out in latter paper (RISBEC 1955b) together with three subspecies of D. magnificus from the African continent.   
 Surprisingly, four specimens labeled as D. magnificus are deposited in the MNHN. Three of them are the syntypes mentioned by RISBEC (1955a) in his paper and the fourth specimen was only found recently in the collection of the MNHN (C. Villemant, pers. comm.). It was collected at the type locality (Bekily) of the nominotypical subspecies of D. magnificus magnificus and is also labeled as a type, marked by a red label with letters ‘TYPE’. However, this specimen is obviously excluded from the type series, because its collecting date (February 1937) differs from those cited in the original (RISBEC 1995a).   
 We studied one of the three syntypes and the fourth specimen mentioned above. Moreover, G. Delvare (pers. comm.) recently confirmed conspecifity of all three syntypes. We confirm that all specimens labeled as types of D. magnificus, as discussed above, really fit RISBEC’ s (1955a) original description of D. magnificus. Therefore, we synonymize D. m. magnificus with E. macrotelus. This, in turn, requires new combinations for the other subspecies of D. magnificus described by RISBEC (1955b): Ecdamua macrotelus africanus Risbec, 1955, comb. nov. (from Diomorus magnificus africanus); E. macrotelus vassei Risbec, 1955, comb. nov. (from Diomorus magnificus vassei); E. macrotelus congoanus Risbec, 1955, comb. nov. (from Diomorus magnificus congoanus). Unfortunately, it was not possible for us to examine also the syntypes of these subspecies (deposited in the MNHN).
description: Published as part of Janšta, Petr & Bouček, Zdeněk, 2006, A new species of Eridontomerus with taxonomic and faunistic notes on some other taxa (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae), pp. 211-218 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 46 on page 217, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5327966