Stylops melittae Kirby, 1802

Straka, Jakub, Jůzová, Kateřina & Nakase, Yuta, 2015, Nomenclature and taxonomy of the genus Stylops (Strepsiptera): an annotated preliminary world checklist, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (1), pp. 305-332 : 314-315

Stylops melittae Kirby, 1802

Stylops melittae Kirby, 1802: 113 , M. Type locality not indicated.

= Stylops Kirbii Leach, 1817: 135 , M. Type locality not indicated. Synonymized with S. melittae by PIERCE (1909: 94).

= Stylops Haworthi Stephens, 1829: 403 . Nomen nudum.

= Stylops spencii Pickering, 1836: 168 , M. Type locality: Great Britain. Synonymized with S. melittae by PASTEELS (1949:188).

= Stylops kirbyi Kinzelbach, 1978: 125 . Unjustified emendation. New junior objective synonym.

?= Stylops flavipedis Hofeneder, 1924a: 132 , M, F. Type locality: Austria, Wien, Kalksburg. Supposed new junior subjective synonym.

?= Stylops nitidae Pasteels, 1954: 352 , F, L1. Type locality: Switzerland, Lausanne, Bois de Helmont. Supposed new junior subjective synonym.

= Stylops spencei Kinzelbach, 1971: 169 . Unjustified emendation. New junior objective synonym.

= Stylops spencei Luna de Carvalho, 1974: 342 . Unjustified emendation. Junior homonym of S. spencei Kinzelbach, 1971 . New junior objective synonym.

= Stylops melittai Luna de Carvalho, 1974: 341 . Unjustified emendation. New junior objective synonym.

?= Stylops giganteus Luna de Carvalho, 1974: 352 , F. Type locality: Spain, Madrid, Ciempozuelos. Supposed new junior subjective synonym.

Hosts. Andrena (Melandrena) nigroaenea ( Kirby, 1802) ( KIRBY 1802) , A. (M.) nitida (Müller, 1776) ( PASTEELS 1954) , A. (Zonandrena) flavipes Panzer, 1799 ( HOFENEDER 1924a), A. (M.) thoracica (Fabricius, 1775) , A. (Z.) soror Dours, 1872 ( LUNA DE CARVALHO 1974).

DNA barcode sequences. KF803450 , KF803451 , KF803452 , KF803453 , KF803454 , KF803455 , KF803456 , KF803459 , KF803460 , KF803461 , KF803488 , KF803489 , KF803491 , KF803492 , KF803493 , KF803517 , KP213295 .

Notes. Distances between DNA barcode sequences of Stylops from the subgenera Melandrena and Zonandrena and the other host subgenera are 8–18 % ( JŮZOVÁ et al. 2015). In comparison to other Stylops species with known barcode sequences, variability within Stylops from Melandrena and Zonandrena is relatively high, but still at most 2 % in distance (for exception, see below). This fits well with association to a single species from both mentioned subgenera together in the West Palaearctic Region. However, Melandrena subgenus hosts also S. ater in the West Palearctic Region and rarely the species host pool can overlap in both Stylops species. Thus, A. nigroaenea can rarely be host of two species of Stylops ( JŮZOVÁ et al. 2015) . To fix the name S. melittae , revision of the type will be necessary.

PASTEELS (1949) suggested that the species name S. spencii , originally described by (PIC- KERING 1836) from A. tibialis , is a synonym of S. melittae , and he proposed a new name for the Stylops species that parasitises A. tibialis . This problem was first noted by PERKINS (1918), who described the possible irrelevance of Pickering’s host identification, and thus, also Pickering’s Stylops determination. Some uncertainty remains. Examination of the type material or the designation of a neotype is required to fix the nomenclature of the name S. spencii .