A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea)

About 260 species of Platygastridae are listed from the British Isles. Forty-seven species and one genus are recorded as new to the UK. Fourteen new synonymies are proposed: Amblyaspis roboris (Haliday in Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar]) = A. lasiophila lasiophila Kieffer, 1913 Kieffer, JJ. 1913. Description de nouveaux microhyménoptères. Broteria (Ser. Zool.), 11: 177–197. [Google Scholar] syn. nov.; Amblyaspis scelionoides (Haliday, 1835) = A. fuscicornis Thomson, 1859 Thomson, CG. 1859. Skandinaviens Proctotruper. Tribus VIII. Platygastrini Öfvers af K Vet-Akad Förh., 16: 69–87. [Google Scholar] syn. nov.; Isostasius punctiger (Nees, 1834) = I. atinas (Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar]) syn. nov.; Ceratacis cochleata (Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar]) comb. nov. = Platygaster filicornis (Haliday in Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar]) syn. nov. and Platygaster munki Buhl, 1994 Buhl, PN. 1994. A new extralimital species of the Platygaster complex from Denmark and England (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea: Platygasteridae). Reichenbachia, 30: 163–165. [Google Scholar] syn. nov.; Leptacis laodice (Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar]) = L. buchi Buhl, 1997 Buhl, PN. 1997. Revision of some types of Platygastrinae described by A. Forster (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae). Z Arb Oest Entomol., 49: 21–28. [Google Scholar] syn. nov.; Platygaster elongata Haliday, 1833 Haliday, AH. 1833. An essay on the classification of the parasitic Hymenoptera of Britain, which correspond with the Ichneumones minuti of Linnaeus. Entomol Mag., 1: 259–276. [Google Scholar] = P. attenuata Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar] syn. nov.; Platygaster philinna Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar] = P. nottoni Buhl, 1995 syn. nov.; Platygaster rutubus Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar] = P. luteocoxalis (Kozlov, 1966) syn. nov.; Platygaster minthe Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar] = P. laeviventris Thomson, 1859 Thomson, CG. 1859. Skandinaviens Proctotruper. Tribus VIII. Platygastrini Öfvers af K Vet-Akad Förh., 16: 69–87. [Google Scholar] syn. nov.; Platygaster pelias Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar] = P. apicalis Thomson, 1859 Thomson, CG. 1859. Skandinaviens Proctotruper. Tribus VIII. Platygastrini Öfvers af K Vet-Akad Förh., 16: 69–87. [Google Scholar] syn. nov.; Platygaster puccinii Vlug, 1995 Vlug, HJ. 1995. “Catalogue of the Platygastridae (Platygastroidea) of the world”. In Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 19, Edited by: Achterberg, C. van. 168Amsterdam: SPB Academic Publishing. [Google Scholar] = P. thomsoni Buhl, 1995 syn. nov.; Synopeas ventrale (Westwood, 1833 Westwood, JO. 1833. Further notices of the British parasitic hymenopterous insects; together with the “Transactions of a fly with a long tail,” observed by Mr E. W. Lewis; and additional observations. Mag Nat Hist., 6: 414–421. [Google Scholar]) = S. abaris (Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar]) syn. nov.; Trichacis pisis (Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar]) = T. opaca Thomson, 1859 Thomson, CG. 1859. Skandinaviens Proctotruper. Tribus VIII. Platygastrini Öfvers af K Vet-Akad Förh., 16: 69–87. [Google Scholar] syn. nov. Platygaster intermediana Buhl is a nom. nov. for P. intermedia Buhl, 2006 Buhl, PN. 2006. Key to Platygaster (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae) from Denmark, with descriptions of new species. Steenstrupia., 29: 127–167. [Google Scholar]. Amblyaspis vestinus (Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar]) is a comb. nov. for Platygaster vestinus Walker, 1835 Walker, F. 1835. On the species of Platygaster &c. Entomol Mag., 3: 216–274. [Google Scholar], and Ceratacis laricis (Haliday, 1835) is a comb. nov. for Platygaster laricis, Haliday 1835. For some species taxonomical notes with additions to the published descriptions are given.