Smicromyrme ellipsifera ( GRIBODO , 1884)

Madl, Michael, 2021, A catalogue of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea) of Eritrea, Linzer biologische Beiträge 53 (2), pp. 715-741 : 728

Smicromyrme ellipsifera ( GRIBODO, 1884)

Mutilla ellipsifera n.sp.: GRIBODO 1884: 390 (description ♀, Massawa).

Mutilla ellipsifera GRIBODO, 1884 : DALLA TORRE 1897: 34 (world catalogue ( Eritrea – not East Africa)).

Mutilla ellipsifera GRIBODO, 1884 : ANDRÉ 1903: 36 (world catalogue).

Smicromyrme ellipsifera ( GRIBODO, 1884) : BISCHOFF 1921: 560 (key ♀), 574 (taxonomy, description ♀, Assab, Massawa), pl. 3 (fig. 169).

Smicromyrme ellipsifera ( GRIBODO, 1884) : LELEJ 2002: 74 (taxonomy, catalogue Palaearctic region).

Smicromyrme ellipsifera ( GRIBODO, 1884) : LO CASCIO & GRITA 2014: 126 (taxonomy, Massawa), 127 (figs 2b, 3 (map)).

Smicromyrme (incertae sedis) ellipsiferus (!) ( GRIBODO, 1884): PENATI & MARIOTTI 2015: 47 (taxonomy, Massawa, catalogue Hymenoptera described by Gribodo), 166 (app. 2: systematical catalogue Hymenoptera described by Gribodo), 171 (app. 3: chronological catalogue Hymenoptera described by Gribodo).

Smicromyrme ellipsiferus (!) ( GRIBODO, 1884): PAGLIANO et al. 2020: 195 ( Smicromyrme incertae sedis, world catalogue).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Assab, Massawa.

Smicromyrme ellipsifera is known from the Afrotropical ( Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia) and Palaearctic regions. It is not mentioned in MAGRETTI (1906).