Ellampus turkestanicus Mocsary , 1889

Rosa, Paolo, Wisniowski, Bogdan & Xu, Zai-fu, 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the collection of Radoszkowski in the Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, ZooKeys 486, pp. 1-100 : 70

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Ellampus turkestanicus Mocsary, 1889

Ellampus Turkestanicus Mocsáry 1889: 101.

Type locality.

"Turkestania, Taschkend (Coll. Rad.)".

Holotype

[sex unknown] [box 59]: 30 [printed] [light blue label] // Пейшамбе [printed] // Tachkent [handwritten by Radoszkowski] // Ellampus Turkestanicus Mocs [handwritten by Radoszkowski] // 194 [printed] [yellow label].

Remarks.

The type is seriously damaged. It lacks both antennae after the scapus, all the legs, wings and the metasoma. Based on the mesosoma punctuation it belongs to the genus Pseudomalus . In the Mocsáry collection (HNHM) there are six specimens labelled as autotypes (from type n° 134857 to type n° 134862), which are not part of the type series, but they were collected in “Turkestan”, after the description.

Current status.

Pseudomalus turkestanicus ( Mocsáry, 1889) (transferred by Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 270).