Caenoteleia Kieffer

Caenoteleia Kieffer Caenoteleia Kieffer, 1926: 266, 550. Original description. Type: Caloteleia elegans Perkins, by monotypy. Keyed. Muesebeck & Walkley (1956): citation of type species; Johnson (1992): catalog of world species. urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts: 460 1. http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col: 32981 2. http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col: 1010 3. http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col: 1011 4. http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col: 1012 5. http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col: 33823 6. http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col: 1014 7. http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col: 34411 8. http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col: 34413 9. http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col: 34423 10. http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col: 1019 11. http://specimage.osu.edu 12. http://www.morphbank.net There is no indication that Kieffer ever saw any specimens of Caloteleia elegans, and the original description of the species included no illustrations. The decision to erect a new genus seems to have been influenced by the comment of Perkins that the species was remarkable for the petiolate wings. In fact, the wings (Fig. 4), while narrow, are not stalked in the same sense that one finds in families such as the Myrmaridae. The wings of C. elegans are not extraordinary in any sense in comparison to those of most other platygastroids. This species is nothing more than a distinctively colored and sculptured species of the cosmopolitan genus Calliscelio, exactly as suggested by Masner (1976). Thus, after having examined the Perkins material, we feel confident in proposing that Caenoteleia is a junior synonym of Calliscelio, new synonymy.
Published as part of Masner, Lubom��r, Johnson, Norman F. & Musetti, Luciana, 2009, Calliscelio elegans (Perkins), a tramp species, and a review of the status of the genus Caenoteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae), pp. 59-66 in Zootaxa 2237 on pages 60-61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.275200
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