Krombeinella gaullei ( Invrea 1952 ) Lelej, Arkady S. & Yildirim, Erol, 2009

Lelej, Arkady S. & Yildirim, Erol, 2009, A review of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of Turkey, Zootaxa 2160 (1), pp. 1-28 : 6

Krombeinella gaullei ( Invrea 1952) , stat. nov.

Myrmosa nigriceps var. gaullei Invrea 1952: 20 , ♂, (holotype – " Constantinopoli " ( Turkey, Istanbul), 29.VI 1919, De Gaulle, in Mus. Nat. d'Hist. Natur., Paris.

Krombeinella nigriceps gaullei: Lelej 2002: 18 (European Turkey).

Krombeinella nigriceps: Invrea 1952: 19 , 2 ♀ ["Constantinopoli" ( Turkey, Istanbul)]; Yildirim 2006: 278, ♂ (Bilecik).

Material examined. Turkey: Bilecik: 600 m, 15.VIII.1995, 3 ♂ (identified by G. Pagliano as Krombeinella nigriceps ) . Bulgaria: Slancev Brjag , 28.VI-17.VII.1971 (Z. Pádr), 2 ♂ [ IBSS] .

Distribution. Turkey: European (Istanbul) and Asian (Bilecik) parts, Bulgaria (new record).

Remarks. The male of K. gaullei differs from K. nigriceps S.S. Saunders 1850 by having black mesoscutellum and metanotum (red in K. nigriceps ) and by lacking precoxal denticles on mesopleuron beneath. The female of this species (with the same label as holotype) was described ( Invrea 1952) as K. nigriceps . We deem these characters significant to warrant designation as a discrete species.