Revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Anterhynchium de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)
Author
Selis, Marco
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Author
Carpenter, James M.
0000-0002-8200-9441
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-02-03
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5233.1.1
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Euodynerus (Euodynerus) histrionicus
(
Gerstäcker, 1857
)
comb. nov.
(
Fig. 36
)
Rhynchium histrionicum
Gerstäcker 1857: 463
,
♀
—“Mossambique” (
holotype
ZMHB).
Rhynchium foraminosum
Gribodo 1895: 101
,
♀
—“Lourenso-Marquez” (
holotype
lost, previously in MSNG)
Typical material examined.
Holotype
of
Rhynchium histrionicum
: “
histrionicum
/
Gerst.
/
(caput falsum!)
// Type //
Mozambique
/ Tette / Peters S. // 2662” (
ZMHB
).
Distribution.
Angola
,
Botswana
,
Malawi
*,
Mozambique
,
Namibia
,
South Africa
*,
Swaziland
,
Tanzania
,
Zimbabwe
(
Bequaert 1918
;
Carpenter
et al.
2009
;
Gerstäcker 1857
,
1862
;
Gribodo 1895
;
Radoszkovsky 1881
; von Schulthess 1899, 1922a, 1922b).
Remarks.
This species was placed in the genus
Anterhynchium
by
Carpenter
et al.
(2009)
, but the examination of the
holotype
in ZMHB and a series of specimens housed in MSNVE allows us to transfer it to
Euodynerus
. The characters that justify this new placement are: translucent margin at apex of T1, propodeum not elongate, tegula not exceeding parategula and propodeum without dorsal carinae. It needs to be noted that the head of the
holotype
is false, as written on a label pinned below the specimen, and belongs to a male
Anterhynchium
of the
grayi
group, but the rest of the body clearly indicates that this species is a
Euodynerus
.