A taxonomic review of the Tracheliodes quinquenotatus (Jurine, 1807) species complex and some new records of rare European Tracheliodes A. Morawitz, 1866 (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)
Author
Divelec, Romain Le
Société Entomologique de France, 45 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris.
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Tracheliodes herinaceus
(
Gribodo, 1894
)
stat. rev.
(
Figs 1A, 1D, 1G
,
2A, 2D, 2G
,
3A, 3D, 3G
,
4B, 4D, 4H, 4J
,
5
)
Crabro
(
Blepharipus
)
herinaceus
Gribodo, 1894: 23
.
Lectotype
:
♂
,
Tunisia
, Tunis (MSNG), designated by de Beaumont, 1950: 266.
Fig. 5
.
Crabro
(
Tracheliodes
)
quinquenotatus
var.
khoudja
Doumandji and Doumandji, 1988: 107-109
.
♀
(
holotype
not designated):
Algeria
, Alger (depository not indicated).
Not
available:
Article
45.6.3 of the
Code
.
Synonymy.
Crabro herinaceus
Gribodo
was synonymized with
Crabro quinquenotatus
Jurine
by
Kohl (1915: 325)
. De
Beaumont (1950)
designated its
lectotype
and stated that this taxon could be a valid subspecies. Later, a new Algerian variety of
C. quinquenotatus
,
named
khoudja,
was described based on its coloration by
Doumandji & Doumandji (1988)
. This description is imperfect (no
holotype
designated, no material examined listed and no depository indicated) and the International Code on Zoological Nomenclature does not recognize varieties described after 1960 as available names (Art. 45.6.3). Because
T. herinaceus
is the only species exhibiting the color patterns described for the
khoudja
variety and
, because it is the only species occurring in
Algeria
,
T. quinquenotatus var. khoudja
can only refer to
T. herinaceus
.
Diagnosis.
The lateral teeth of the clypeus free margin are not distinctly wider than long, usually about 1.2 × as wide as long (
Fig. 1A
,
2A
). The outer edge of the lateral teeth is elevated, higher than inner edge, so that the teeth seem more inclined toward the median tooth than in the other species (in which lateral teeth are more or less in the same plan as the median tooth). The clypeal process of
T. herinaceus
is diagnostic in female, with straight to sinuous side in the dorsal view (
Fig. 1D
). This process may be reduced in some small males so that the clypeus seems similar to that of
T. quinquenotatus
. The upper frons is finely and sparsely punctate, as in
T. quinquenotatus
(
Fig. 4E
). The vertex usually is longer than in the following species, often longer than three diameters of posterior ocellus while it hardly reaches three diameters of posterior ocellus in the other species. The characteristic punctation of the prepectus may be missing in small males. The yellow spots are more developed than in the other species of this group. Egg-yellow colored are: mandible, scape (usually entirely yellow while usually partly black in the other species), lower gena up to whole of gena, spot on the top of inner orbit up to whole of inner orbit, pronotal collar, tegula, scutellum, median spot on tergum I, a pair of wide lateral spots on tergum III and on tergum V (absent in some males), most of fore and mid legs (except bases of femora and most of coxa), hindtibia and hindtarsus. In the lightest specimens, the clypeus, fore and mid legs, metanotum and axilla are entirely yellow; the vertex, scutum, propodeum, mesepisternum and all terga are also partly yellow (small lateral spots on terga II, IV, and VI).
Type material examined.
Lectotype
Crabro herinaceus
Gribodo
:
Tunisi
, Dint.—XI-XII.1881—G. e L. Doria //
Crabro (Blepharipus) herinaceus
Grib.
♂
Lectotypus
=
Cr. 5-notatus
Jur. J. de
Beaumont 1950
// Museo Civico di Genova //
Tracheliodes herinaceus
♂
Le Divelec, R.
det. 2019.
Additional material examined.
Algeria
:
Affreville
08.V.1895
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
1946
1♀
(
MNHN
)
;
Alger
VII
2♀
1♂
(
MNHN
)
;
Baba Ali
05.VI.1922
1♀
(
MNHN
)
;
Bône
VII.1868
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
6♀
(
MNHN
)
;
Castiglione
VII.1942
2♀
1♂
(
MNHN
)
;
Dellys
23.VI.1912
1♀
(
MNHN
)
;
Djidjelli
27.VI.1913
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
28.VI.1913
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
09.X.1913
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
25.X.1913
2♀
(
MNHN
)
;
Dombasles
26.VII.1927
1♀
(
MNHN
)
;
Fort de l’Eau
05.IX.1924
3♀
1♂
(
MNHN
)
; La Calle
21.VI.1910
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
29.VI.1910
2♂
(
MNHN
)
,
08.VIII.1910
2♀
1♂
(
MNHN
)
,
24.VI.1911
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
1♀
1♂
(
MNHN
)
;
Le Corso
(
Rocher-Blanc
) V-VI.1912
3♀
(
MNHN
)
;
Les
Caroubiers
VI.1920
1♂
(
MNHN
)
;
Maison
carrée
1♀
1♂
(
NHM
)
;
Mascara
20.VII.1903
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
23.VI.1908
2♀
(
MNHN
)
,
06.VIII.1911
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
02.VI.1940
2♂
(
MNHN
)
,
07.VI.1941
1♂
(
MNHN
)
,
2♀
(
MNHN
)
; Mustapha
14.VI.1890
1♂
(
MNHN
)
,
17.VI.1890
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
28.VI.1890
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
02.VII.1890
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
18.VII.1890
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
20.VII.1890
1♀
1♂
(
MNHN
)
,
1♀
2♂
(
MNHN
)
;
Oran
18.V.1958
2♀
(
MNHN
)
,
19.V.1958
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
08.VI.1958
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
29.VI.1958
1♀
1♂
(
MNHN
)
,
24.VIII.1958
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
06.IX.1958
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
12.X.1958
1♂
(
MNHN
)
,
31.V.1959
1♂
(
MNHN
)
,
14.VI.1959
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
08.V.1960
1♂
(
MNHN
)
,
30.VI.1960
1♂
(
MNHN
)
,
02.VII.1960
2♀
3♂
(
MNHN
)
,
09.X.1960
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
1♀
(
MHNG
)
;
Orléansville
1♀
1♂
(
MNHN
)
;
Rouïba
26.V.1911
1♀
1♂
(
MNHN
)
;
uncertain locality 1862
2♀
(
MNHN
)
,
01-15.VI.1864
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
09.VIII.1864
1♀
(
MNHN
)
,
3♀
4♂
(
MNHN
)
.
Morocco
:
Agadir
1♀
(
NHM
)
;
Asni
01.VI.1928
1♀
(
MNHN
)
;
Tanger
IX.1896
2♂
(
MNHN
)
,
1♀
(
MNHN
)
;
uncertain locality
1♀
(
MHNG
)
.
Tunisia
:
Gafsa
X.1923
1♀
(
MNHN
)
.
Distribution.
Morocco
,
Algeria
,
Tunisia
.