Stylops nevinsoni Perkins, 1918

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 : 316

Stylops nevinsoni Perkins, 1918 , stat. restit.

Stylops nevinsoni Perkins, 1918: 71 , F. Type locality: Great Britain.

?= Stylops transversa Pasteels, 1949: 191 , M, F. Type locality: Belgium, Uccle. Supposed new junior subjective synonym.

Hosts. Andrena (Andrena) synadelpha Perkins, 1914 ( PERKINS 1918), Andrena (Andrena) fulva (Müller, 1766) ( PASTEELS 1949) .

DNA barcode sequences. KF803457 , KF803458 , KF803462 , KF803533 .

Notes. Distances between DNA barcode sequences of Stylops from the subgenus Andrena and the other host subgenera are 8–17 % in the West Palaearctic Region ( JŮZOVÁ et al. 2015). Stylops praecocis , which also parasitizes bees of the subgenus Andrena , seems to be very closely related and their DNA barcode sequences differ only 1 % in base composition. However, phylogenetic study suggests two distinct Stylops clades for early spring and late spring Andrena bee hosts ( JŮZOVÁ et al. 2015). In addition, significant morphological differences were found in first instars from A. fulva (likely S. nevinsoni ) and A. praecox (likely S. praecocis ) ( BORCHERT 1963). For these reasons, we decided to assign both names to valid species; however, more research is needed in this problem.