Allotropa pauliani Risbec, 1955b: 117, figs 1a, 1c. Current status. Allotropa pauliani stat. rev. Syntypes 2 ♀♀; 3; 2 unsexed imagines still within host remains, Madagascar, Mandraka (MNHN). Labels. Elev. Du 21. 2. 52. No. 1008. Eclos le 25. 2. 52 / Inst. Scient. Madagascar / Parasites de cochenilles sur Philippia/ La Mandraka CA.; Allotropa / pauliani / Risbec [syntypes 2 ♀♀; 3; 2 unsexed imagines still within host remains]. Remarks. All five syntypes are dry-mounted on a microscope slide, two have their heads broken off and one of the imagines still within the host remains is broken. Vlug (1995) emended the spelling to ‘ pauliana ’ apparently in the mistaken belief that this was the original spelling. Whatever Vlug’s intention, according to the Code this is clearly a “demonstrably intentional” change because Vlug cited both the original spelling, the changed spelling and adopted the latter in place of the former. A. pauliana is an unjustified emendation and becomes a junior objective synonym (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.2.1).

Published as part of Notton, David G., 2010, A catalogue of the types of Platygastridae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, with brief notes on the history of the collection, pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 2358 on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2358.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/275686