Abernessia irmgardae Arlé, 1947

Oliveira, Nathália S., Decker, Brenna L., Pitts, James P. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2020, Addition to the taxonomic and distribution records of Abernessia Arlé (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Zootaxa 4801 (1), pp. 191-197 : 193

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.

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FIGURE 1. Distribution of species of Abernessia within South American Ecoregions. Red shapes represent previous distribution records, while green shapes represent newly reported records of occurrence. Triangle represents A. capixaba, star represents A. irmagardae, circle represents A. giga, and square represents A. prima.