Pseudotiphia brevipennis (LUCAS 1846)

Boni, M. & O, Tiphia, 2010, A review of the genus Pseudotiphia ASHMEAD 1903 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2), pp. 1183-1236 : 1205

Pseudotiphia brevipennis (LUCAS 1846)

Tiphia brevipennis LUCAS 1846: 285 – Lectotypus here designated in order to ensure the name’

proper and consistent use: Algeria = / Oran / / Oran / (Rounded) / Tiphia subaptera Lu /

/Museum Paris Algerie Coll. H. Lucas 78-49/ / Lectotypus Tiphia brevipennis Design

Gorbatovsky 1988/ / Tiphia brevipennis lucas Gorbatovsky det 1988/, MHNP! Paralectotypes: Algeria = (1) / Oran / / Oran / (Rounded) / Tiphia subaptera Luc / /Museum Paris

Algerie Coll. H. Lucas 78-49/ / Lectotypus Tiphia brevipennis Design Gorbatovsky 1988 /

/ Tiphia brevipennis Lucas Gorbatovsky det 1988/, MHNP!; Pseudotiphia brevipennis: Ashmead (1903: 6) Tiphia brevipennis: HEDICKE (1936: 6) Tiphia brevipennis: GUIGLIA (1956: 94-95 ,) Pseudotiphia brevipennis: NAGY (1969: 141-142 ,)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Algeria = (1) / Oran / / Tiphia subaptera Luc / /Museum Paris ALGERIE Coll. H. Lucas 78-49/ / Lectotypus Tiphia brevipennis Lucas Design Gorbatovsky 1988 / / Tiphia brevipennis Lucas Gorbatovsky det 1988/, MHNP!; / Oran / / Tiphia subaptera Luc / /Museum Paris ALGERIE Coll. H. Lucas 78-49/ / Lectotypus Tiphia brevipennis Lucas Design Gorbatovsky 1988 / / Tiphia brevipennis lucas Gorbatovsky det 1988/, MHNP!; (2) / Oran / /Museum Paris ALGER Coll. H. Lucas 78-49/ /Paralectoyypus Tiphia brevipennis Lucas design Gorbatovsky 1988 /, MHNP!;

: Morocco (Spanish) = (2) / Melilla XII - 1909 Arias/ /MNCN Ent N° Cat 34403 & 34485/, MNCN.

Female. Figs 33-34 . Size varies between 11 and 18 mm

Male. Figs 35-38 (from larger specimen, 11.5 mm). Described for the first time. Mostly black and brown black like Ps. villosa but brown tegulae. Head and mesosoma mostly covered by rough sculpture and p. and dense yellowish hair. 2 nd to 5 th flagellomerus with a ratio L / LA about 1.4. N 1 narrow and strongly tapered ahead, ratio LAa / Am about 3, LAp / Am about 4.3. (respectively about 2.7 and 3.4 in Ps. villosa ) N 1 disk without keel along its fore border and also large impunctate apical stripe, p reaching the apical border. Horizontal P without distinct areola, with rough and irregular longitudinal ridges surrounded by rough sculpture. No keels delimiting horizontal P from lateral and posterior area. Short omaulus on es 2 not reaching ventral area. No graduli on 1 st an 2 nd terga, nor on 2 nd sternum. Very small sensorial area on lateral 1st tergum. Large tuberculum on 5 th sternum.

The specimen catalogued with n. 34403 is very small (about 7mm) with integument extensively brown and dark brown.

Note. The present males have been ascribed to Lucas’s taxon on the ground of the proximity of the localities and just because of the lack of graduli on basal terga.

Figures

Figs 33-38. Pseudotiphia brevipenniss (Paratypus) – (33) palpi; (34) wings. Pseudotiphia brevipennis – (35) palpi; (36) labrum, frontal aspect; (37) apical fore wing; (38) gonosquama, inner lateral aspect.