Mesopteromalus

Tavares, Marcelo T., Perioto, Nelson W., Lara, Rogéria I. R., Wengrat, Ana P. G. S., Shimbori, Eduardo M. & Fernandes, Daniell R. R., 2024, On the unavailability of species and genera names of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Ichneumonoidea, Platygastroidea) attributed to William H. Ashmead, Zoologia (e 23105) 41, pp. 1-6 : 3

Mesopteromalus Ashmead, 1908 nomen nudum

Mesopteromalus Ashmead, 1908 (in Rocha 1908: 70). Rocha (1918: 21, checklist); Costa Lima (1956: 91, taxonomy).

Remarks. Mesopteromalus was never described, or illustrated, nor its type was designated. Besides this genus name was first published as a combination with the specific name abdominalis , the latter is unavailable. Thus, the name Mesopteromalus does not satisfy the ICZN’s (1999) article 12.2.5. specifically, neither the article 12 as a whole. It is likely that Ashmead (in Rocha 1908) intention was to propose the name Mesopteromalus to a taxon now known as Jaliscoa Bouček, 1993 (see remarks about M. abdominalis below).