New species of Ferreola L, 1845 and Eoferreola A, 1935 with key to Ferreola species from the Palaearctic region (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae)
Author
Schmid-Egger, Rnold Christian
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Linzer biologische Beiträge
2018
2018-07-27
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10.5281/zenodo.4030909
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0253-116X
4030909
Ferreola barrei
(RADOSZKOWSKI
,
1883),
figs 16-19
Pseudoferreola barrei
RADOSZKOWSKI, 1893: 61
. Male,
holotype
male, Serax (
Berlin
). Examined.
New combination
.
Records:
Turkmenistan
: male
holotype
, Serakhs,
36.53N
61.22E
without date (Berlin).
Afghanistan
1 male
SW Afg., Hilmend River, Lashkar Gar
14.v.1957
(CSE).
Iran
1 male
9.vi.2010
Fars prov.
, Komher 30’47’’N 51’86’’E,
2380 m
;
1 male
23.v.2005
Elburz
, Mayamey (OLL).
Remark: In the coll. Berlin is an old
Ferreola
male with an handwritten label "
barrei
" and a red printed "
type
" label. It agree perfect with the (short) original description of
Pseudoferreola barrei
by
RADOSZKOWSKI (1893)
. For that reason we treat it as the
holotype
of
Ferreola barrei
. The species is valid and represent a hitherto unknown Central Asian
Ferreola
species close to
F. orchesica
from the western Mediterranean area. The female is still unknown, but we can assign some males from
Iran
and
Afghanistan
with the
type
of
F. barrei
. The
type
location "Serax" is now Serakhs or Sarahs in southern
Turkmenistan
at
36.53N
61.22E
(A. Antropov pers. comm.). A. Antropov also agree that the label most probably is from O. Radoszkowski.
Figs 19-24
: (19)
Ferreola barrei
, male from Iran, genital; (
20
)
Ferreola denticulata
, female from Sudan; (
21
)
Ferreola denticulata
, male from Greece, Peloponnes, by H. Wiesbauer; (
22
)
Ferreola denticulata
, male from Greece, head and mesosoma dorsally; (
23
)
Ferreola denticulata
, male from Greece, head laterally; (
24
)
Ferreola denticulata
, male from Greece, subgenital plate.
Diagnosis:
Ferreola barrei
is characterized by the following character combination: short malar space, short vertex and pronotum, crossing between propodeal declivity and propodeal dorsum with prominent and sharp edge, declivity with distinct striation. Pronotum is red or black. Body length measures
11-13 mm
. The female is unknown. The species is similar to
F. orchesica
and can be recognized by smaller size (
F. orchesica
male measures
13-16 mm
), by a somewhat more irregular striation of propodeal declivity and by a distinctive colour pattern of upper face: red band of inner eye margin is not connected with red band of vertex, whereas it is connected in all examined
F. orchesica
. Two of the examined males (
type
specimen and male from
Fars prov.
) have pronotum and medial spot on mesoscutum red, the remaining have pronotum and mesoscutum all black.
Geograf ic distribution:
Afghanistan
,
Iran
,
Turkmenistan
.