Addition to the taxonomic and distribution records of Abernessia Arlé (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) Author Oliveira, Nathália S. nathsouzaoliveira @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8008 - 0260 Author Decker, Brenna L. Utah State University, Department of Biology, Logan, UT 84322 - 5305, USA. & brennaldecker @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9878 - 1903 Author Pitts, James P. Utah State University, Department of Biology, Logan, UT 84322 - 5305, USA. & james. pitts @ usu. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1062 - 3258 Author Waichert, Cecilia text Zootaxa 2020 2020-06-17 4801 1 191 197 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4801.1.12 1175-5326 3898084 FEDD641B-B0AD-43F1-9BDF-516E002BDCEB Abernessia irmgardae Arlé, 1947 Material examined. Neotype ♀ , here designated. Paraguay : San Pedro: 23.81°S 56.13°W , alt. 180m , Hwy 3 E of Santa Rosa , Rio Verde , Yagua Rete , Forest 17–25.i.1996 , J. Beierl Malaise trap ( EMUS _821). Distribution. São Paulo , Brazil ; San Pedro , Paraguay ( Fig. 1 ). Remarks. The species is known from the type specimen only. The original description assigns the “author’s collection” as repository ( Arlé 1947 ), which would be the Museu Nacional , in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . The curator (Felipe Vivallo), however, confirmed that the holotype of A. irmgardae was not deposited at the Museu Nacional . Arlé worked at Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi from 1962 to 1972 (Overal & Gorayeb 1981), after the description date, but the curator (Orlando Silveira) also confirmed the absence of the holotype . Because the holotype could not be located, and following the description of Arlé (1947) , we designate the specimen examined for the current paper as the neotype of A. irmgardae . See Arlé (1947) for detail description.