1913 



: 5- 



5-7- 





195* 



: 559- 



1952 



: 22i. 



PTEROMALIDAE OF N.W. EUROPE 779 



NASONIA Ashmead 



Mormoniella Ashmead, 1904 : 316, 317. Type-species : M. brevicornis Ashmead, by mono- 



typy. 

 Nasonia Ashmead, 1904 : 317, 318, xi. Type-species : N. brevicornis Ashmead, by monotypy. 

 Mormoniella Ashmead ; Schmiedeknecht, 1909 : 316, 317, 322. 

 Nasonia Ashmead ; Schmiedeknecht, 1909 : 323, 325-326. 

 Nasonia Ashmead ; Girault & Sanders, 1909 : 1 19-132. 

 Nasonia Ashmead ; Brues, 1910 : 259-260. 

 Mormoniella Ashmead ; Kurdjumov, 

 Mormoniella Ashmead, Gahan, 1927 : 

 Nasonia Ashmead ; Muesebeck et al., 

 Mormoniella Ashmead ; Nikol'skaya, 

 Nasonia Ashmead ; Peck, 1963 : 709. 

 Nasonia Ashmead ; Peck et al., 1964 : 30, 48. 



Brues (igio : 260) was informed by Kurdjumov that Ashmead had based his 

 genera Mormoniella and Nasonia on the same type specimen, and that therefore 

 these names were synonyms. Brues adopted Nasonia because the genus had been 

 redescribed more fully under that name by Girault and Sanders (1909). Kurdjumov 

 (1913 : 5) preferred to use the name Mormoniella, which has page-priority, and since 

 then this name has been more often used than Nasonia. Muesebeck et al. (195 1 : 

 559) adopted Nasonia because this name had been selected by Brues, the first 

 reviser of the genus. Peck (1963 : 709) followed the latter usage and it is adopted 

 here. 



Nasonia vitripennis (Walker) 



Pteromalus vitripennis Walker, 1836 : 492, 9. 



Pteromalus muscarum Hartig, 1838 : 256, syn. n. 



Pteromalus abnormis Boheman, 1858 : 58, 59, pi. 2, fig. 3, £ $. 



Dicyclns pallinervosus Walker, 18726 : 117, ?. syn. n. 



Stictonotus insuetits Walker, 18726 : 117, 9. syn. n. 



Pteromalus abnormis Boheman ; Thomson, 1878 : 174, <$ 9- 



Mormoniella brevicornis Ashmead, 1904 : 316, 382, 9- 



Nasonia brevicornis Ashmead, 1904 : 317, 9- 



Mormoniella vitripennis (Walker) Gahan, 1927 : 5-7. 



Nasonia vitripennis (Walker) Peck, in Muesebeck et al., 1951 : 559. 



Mormoniella vitripennis (Walker) ; Edwards, 1954 : 88-112. 



Nasonia vitripennis (Walker) ; de Santis, 1957 : 81-85. 



Mormoniella vitripennis (Walker) ; Whiting, 1958 : 857-866. 



Mormoniella vitripennis (Walker) ; Barrass, i960 : 185-209, 210-218. 



Mormoniella vitripennis (Walker) ; Barrass, 1961 : 288-312. 



Nasonia vitripennis (Walker) ; Peck, 1963 : 709-711. 



The above references do not include many on the biology of the species, for which 

 see Peck (1963). Further papers, not cited by Peck, are those by Edwards (1954) 

 on host-finding and oviposition behaviour ; Whiting (1958, and others) on the 

 genetics ; and Barrass (i960, 1961) on the courtship behaviour of vitripennis. 



Type material. Pteromalus vitripennis Walker. Syntypes, 2 $. LECTOTYPE 

 female bears a Waterhouse label and a green-bordered type label. 



