Flavomeliturgula Flavomeliturgula Patiny

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Subgenus Flavomeliturgula Flavomeliturgula Patiny

Meliturgula (Flavomeliturgula) Warncke, 1983 [1985]: 229, nomen invalidum (no type species designated: ICZN, 1999: Art. 13.3). Nota bene: Michener (2007) erroneously indicated the name as used by Warncke was a nomen nudum and included no species. In fact, Warncke did include four species and even provided scant diagnostic traits for the group (meaning it was not a nomen nudum), but only failed to explicitly designate a type species.

Flavomeliturgula Patiny , 1999: 251. Type species: Poecilomelitta lacrymosa Popov, 1967, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

The subgenus can be distinguished by the combination of: mesoscutum dark brown to black with yellow markings, surface with scattered, appressed, fine setae, such setae mostly anteriorly and laterally, and 0.5-0.75 × median ocellar diameter; basal area of propodeum without setae; and hind wing with 10 or more distal hamuli arranged in a dense series along anterior wing margin.

Included species.

The subgenus as here circumscribed is restricted to the type species, Flavomeliturgula lacrymosa (Popov), from Iran (Fars, Hormozgān, Khuzestan, Tehran).