Gasteruption hastator (Fabricius, 1804)

van Achterberg, C., Sundukov, Yu. N., Lelej, A. S. & Belokobylskij, S. A., 2019, New data on Gasteruptiidae (Hymeno ¬ ptera) from the Russian Far East, Far Eastern Entomologist 381, pp. 1-8 : 5

Gasteruption hastator (Fabricius, 1804)

Gasteruption formilis Alekseev, 1995: 42 , ♀, holotype, Primorskii krai, Chkalovka, 24.VII

1988, N. Azarova leg.; new synonymy proposed by CvA; syn. n.

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. Russia: Primorskii krai: Dmitrievka, 25.VII 1986 ,

1♂, P. Nemkov; 20 km SE Spassk-Dalniy, Evseevka , 17.VII 2006 , 2♀, S. Belokobylskij.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: Primorskii krai, Amurskaya oblast, Altai, European part. – Central Asia, Asia Minor, Europe.

NOTES. The type specimens of G. formilis could not be examined but considering the characters mentioned in the key by Alekseev (1995) and the redescription by Zhao et al. (2012) it concerns a melanic form of G. hastator .

Gasteruption formilis is morphologically very similar, but G. formilis has the head

(as most of the body) dark brown (largely red in typical G. hastator ). Other differences are the more or less transverse sculpture of the mesoscutum and the extend of the depression of the clypeus, but both are variable in examined series from Central Asia.