Quartinia funebris Kostylev, 1935

Fateryga, A. V. & Buyanjargal, B., 2022, New records of Quartinia mongolica (Morawitz, 1889), with a comment on a closely related species Q. funebris Kostylev, 1935 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae), Far Eastern Entomologist 453, pp. 8-16 : 12-13

Quartinia funebris Kostylev, 1935

Figs 16–24

Quartinia funebris Kostylev, 1935: 103–104 , ♀ ♂ (type locality: “ Imam-Baba (Transcaspien)” [ Turkmenistan: Mary Region]); Richards , 1962: 151–152; Carpenter , 2001: 24.

TYPE MATERIAL. Lectotype (designated here): ♀, <golden disc> // Имам-баба

[ Turkmenistan: Mary Region, Ýolöten District, Imam-Baba] / 15–24. V.934 / А. и А. Шестаковы [leg. A. and A. Shestakov] // Quartinia / funebris n. sp. / G. Kostylev det. 1933 //

Lectotypus ♀ / Quartinia funebris / Kostylev, 1935 / des. Fateryga, 2021 <red label> [ ZISP]

( Figs 17–20 ). Paralectotypes: 1 ♀, <golden disc> // Имам-баба / 15–24. V .932 / А. и А.

Шестаковы // Paralectotypus ♀ / Quartinia funebris / Kostylev, 1935 / des. Fateryga, 2021

<red label> [ ZISP]; 1 ♂, <golden disc> // Имам-баба / 15–24. V.932 / А. и А. Шестаковы //

Paralectotypus ♂ / Quartinia funebris / Kostylev, 1935 / des. Fateryga, 2021 <red label>

[ ZISP]; 9 ♀, <golden disc> // Имам-баба / 15–24. V .934 / А. и А. Шестаковы // Paralectotypus ♀ / Quartinia funebris / Kostylev, 1935 / des. Fateryga, 2021 <red label> [ ZISP] ; 2 ♂,

< golden disc> // Имам-баба / 15–24. V.934 / А. и А. Шестаковы // Paralectotypus ♂ /

Quartinia funebris / Kostylev, 1935 / des. Fateryga, 2021 <red label> [ ZISP] ( Figs 16 , 21–24 );

2 ♀, <silver disc> // Transcaspia / Imam-Baba / A. Shestakov / 15–24. V / 1932 // Quartinia funebris n. sp. / G. Kostylev / det. 1934 / Paratyp // Москва / Зоологический / МуЗей МГУ

[ Moscow, Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University ] // <blank, red label> [ ZMMU,

on loan in AMNH].

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED. Turkmenistan: [Mary Region], Imam-Baba ,

1932, 1 ♀, leg. [A.] Shestakov [ ZISP]; [Akhal Region], 25 km E Ashgabat, 20.VI 1976 , 2 ♀,

[ N. V.] Kurzenko [ FSCV]; [ Akhal Region ], vicinity of Ashgabat, 21. VI 1976, 4 ♀, [N. V.]

Kurzenko [ FSCV]; [Balkan Region], 30 km W Gazandjyk [currently Bereket], Akhcha-

Kuyma, 4. VI, 5. VI 1988, 2 ♀, leg. [N. V.] Kurzenko [ FSCV]. Kazakhstan (new record):

[Kyzylorda Province], 20 km S Yany-Kurgan [currently Zhanakorgan], Kyzylkum Desert,

14–15.VII 1990, 1 ♀, V .[L.] Kazenas [ FSCV].

REMARKS. Kostylev (1935: 104) indicated that the type (as “Typ.”) was “ 15 ♀, 1 ♂

Imam-Baba (Transcaspien) 15–24 V 1932. A. Shestakov”. We, however, examined a total of

13 ♀ and 3 ♂ in ZISP and ZMMU (on loan in AMNH), with golden or silver discs ,

obviously belonging to the type series (all of them with the dates “15–24. V ”). It is possible that Kostylev made a mistake, when he stated that there was just one male in this series. It is also of note that the year of collection written on the label of most specimens (12 of 16)

differs from the information given by Kostylev (1934 instead of 1932). An additional specimen from the type locality has no exact date on the label (only the year 1932) and therefore we do not treat it as a member of the type series.

DISTRIBUTION. Turkmenistan (Balkan Region, Akhal Region, Mary Region), Kazakhstan (Kyzylorda Province).

DIAGNOSIS. This species can be distinguished from the closely related Q. mongolica by the punctation on the frons with shining interstices lacking visible microsculpture (versus with evident microsculpture in Q. mongolica ), brown tergum 6 in the female and tergum 7 in the male (versus deep yellow or orange in Q. mongolica ), slightly broader apical emargination of the tergum 7 in the male, and narrower parameres in the male genitalia (Figs

16). Kostylev (1935) also reported that the tergum 7 in the male of Q. funebris had a pit-like longitudinal impression near its [shallowly emarginated] apical margin (versus deep and narrow apical emargination in Q. mongolica ). Examination of the type material of

Q. funebris revealed that such a structure of the tergum 7 is characteristic to one specimen

(possibly anomalous) while two others have deep emargination, rather similar to that in

Q. mongolica , although somewhat broader but not shallower ( Fig. 24 ).

Figures

Figs 14–16. Male genitalia in dorsal view: 14 – Quartinia mongolica (Morawitz, 1889),

Figs 17–24. Quartinia funebris Kostylev, 1935: 17–20 – ♀, lectotype (17 – habitus,