Species Austrepyris platycephalus (Westwood, 1874)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Epyris platycephalus Westwood, J.O. 1874. Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis; or, Illustrations of New, Rare, and Interesting Insects, for the most part contained in the collections presented to the University of Oxford by the Rev. F.W. Hope, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., etc., with forty plates from drawings by the author. Oxford : Macmillan xxiv 205 pp. 40 pls. [159].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Adelaide, SA.
• Rhabakpyris spinosimanus Kieffer, J.J. 1907. Beschreibung neuer im British Museum zu London aufbewahrter Proctotrypiden. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 51: 279-302 [282].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, VIC.
• Rhabakpyris australiensis Kieffer, J.J. 1911. Nouveaux bethylides et dryinides exotiques du British Museum de Londres. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 35: 200-233 [220].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Rhabdepyris platycephalus (Westwood, 1874). —
  Evans, H.E. 1979. The platycephalus group of the genus Rhabdepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae: Epyrinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18: 377-381 [378]
• Austrepyris platycephalus (Westwood, 1874).

Introduction

Transferred from its former position in Chlorepyris Kieffer, 1913 by Colombo et al. (2021) based on morphological and molecular data.

General References

Colombo, W., Tribull, C., Waichert, C. & Azevedo, C. 2021. Integrative taxonomy solves taxonomic impasses: a case study from Epyrinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae). Systematic Entomology 47: 504-529

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