Gasteruption undulatum (Abeille de Perrin, 1879)

van Achterberg, Cornelis & Talebi, Ali Asghar, 2014, Review of Gasteruption Latreille (Hymenoptera, Gasteruptiidae) from Iran and Turkey, with the description of 15 new species, ZooKeys 458, pp. 1-187 : 126-127

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Gasteruptiidae

Gasteruption undulatum (Abeille de Perrin, 1879) Figs 536-547

Faenus undulatus Abeille de Perrin, 1879: 276.

Gasteruption undulatum ; Schletterer 1885: 315, 1889: 407; Dalla Torre 1902: 1075; Kieffer 1912: 269; Hedicke 1939: 26; Madl 1987a: 404, 1988c 39, 1989b 45, 1990a 130, 1990b 480, 484; Wall 1994: 165; Scaramozzino 1995: 3; Pagliano and Scaramozzino 2000: 11, 19, 34; Saure 2001: 30; Yildirim et al. 2004: 1351; van Achterberg 2013: 83.

Foenus bidentulus Thomson, 1883: 848; Hellén 1950: 4; Hedqvist 1973: 181, 182 (as synonym of Gasteruption assectator (Linnaeus)); Oehlke 1984: 175 (id.); Wall 1994: 148. Synonymized with Gasteruption undulatum (Abeille de Perrin) by Madl, 1987b.

Gasteruption bidentulum ; Schletterer 1885: 303, 1889: 405; Dalla Torre 1902: 1065; Kieffer 1912: 257; Schmiedeknecht 1930: 379, 381; Hedicke 1939: 8; Hellén 1950: 4; Šedivý 1958: 36, 37, 38; Györfi and Bajári 1962: 47, 51; Dolfuss 1982: 23; Madl 1987b: 24, 1988a: 13, 14.

Gasteruption tibiale ; Schletterer 1889: 402-403 (p.p.); Ferrière 1946: 234, 238, 241 (p.p.).

Type material.

Lectotype of Gasteruption undulatum here designated, ♀ (MNHN) from S France, "Museum Paris EY 0000003924", “1u”, "Museum Paris, coll. Abeille de Perrin, 1919", " Gasteruption undulatum Ab., ♀, des. Madl 1987 % Lectotypus", "Lectotypus, des. Madl, 1987", metasoma largely missing; according to the original description 4 additional females from Marseille, Bordeaux and Landes, of which one female is in MNHN and labelled as paralectotype by Madl in 1987; he misidentified it as Gasteruption hastator , but it is a normal female of Gasteruption undulatum . Holotype of Gasteruption bidentulum examined, ♀ (ZIL) from Gotland, “G.”, “bidentulus”, "Lectotypus Foenus bidentulus Thoms., ♀, K.-J. Hedqvist, det. 1972".

Additional material.

Turkey (Bilecik; 20 km NW of Igdir; Nigde, Camardi; Mezikiran Gecidi, 20 km E of Gurun; 30 km S of Aksehir; Burdur, 20 km SW Burdur, 940 m; 20 km SW of Bitlis; Bolu, near lake; Sultan Daglari, near Yalvac; Sivas, 45 km E of Yarhisar; Denizli, 35 km SSE of Denizli, 970 m; Mansisa, 40 km NW of Salihli, 150 m; Nevsehir, 20 km S of Nevsehir, Kaymakli, 1200 m).

Diagnosis.

Apex of ovipositor sheath blackish or slightly brownish, if rather pale apically then pale part distinctly shorter than hind basitarsus; ovipositor sheath 1.3-1.5 times as long as hind tibia and 0.7-0.9 times as long as hind tibia and tarsus combined; occipital carina obsolescent medio-dorsally (Figs 536, 542); head, laterally mesosoma and scapus black; head not protruding below eyes; clypeus with small depression or depression obsolescent; apical antennal segment at most 1.2 times as long as third antennal segment and its colour similar to colour of medial segments; antesternal carina narrow; mesoscutum distinctly densely rugose, distinctly different from very finely aciculate vertex; hind tibia stout, with a distinct subbasal ivory ring and distinctly swollen, resulting in a distinctly convex ventral border (Fig. 544); hind basitarsus rather long (Fig. 544); hind tibial spurs yellowish-brown or brown; hind tibial spurs yellowish-brown or brown; hind tarsus (except telotarsus) brownish-yellow to yellowish-brown; incision of hypopygium shallow. Males have third antennal segment about 1.5 times longer than second segment and as long as fifth segment (Fig. 546) and fourth antennal segment about 0.7 times as long as second and third segments combined.

Distribution.

Central and South Europe, Turkey.

Biology.

Unknown. Collected from June till September, in South Europe present from May onwards.