Aspicera spinosa ( Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1832 )

ROS-FARRÉ, P. & PUJADE-VILLAR, J., 2013, <strong> Revision of the genus <em> Aspicera </ em> Dahlbom, 1842 (Hym.: Figitidae: Aspicerinae) </ strong>, Zootaxa 3606 (1), pp. 1-110 : 56

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3606.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10539924
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scientific name	Aspicera spinosa ( Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1832 )
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Aspicera spinosa ( Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1832) “ incertae sedis ”

Figites spinosa Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1832: 186-187

Cynips ( Figites) spinosa (Boyer de Fonscolombe) , Blanchard, 1849 in Cuvier ed. 3 Ins., v. 2, t. 113, f. 2

Aspicera spinosa (Boyer de Fonscolombe) , Reinhard, 1860: 244

The original description does not give some important diagnostic characters that define the species of Aspicera , but it mentions that this species has short lateral tooth in the basis of the scutellar spine. This character is absolutely unusual: no species described here presents a similar morphology, neither any other aspicerine genus. The type material is presumably lost, because it is not deposited in the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Gèneve ( B. Merz, pers. com.), neither in the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris ( C. Villemant, pers. Com.), and neither in the British Museum ( D. Notton, pers. com.). Therefore, until the type material is found, we have to consider this species collected in France as “ incertae sedis ”.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Figitidae
Genus	Aspicera