Plenoculus murgabensis (Gussakovskij, 1928)

Mokrousov, M. V., Shorenko, K. I. & Shlyakhtenok, A. S., 2019, New data on the Palaearctic digger wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Crabronidae), Far Eastern Entomologist 396, pp. 10-16 : 13

Plenoculus murgabensis (Gussakovskij, 1928)

Figs 1–5

Ptygosphex murgabensis Gussakovskij, 1928: 19 , ♀. Syntypes, ♀: Turkmenistan, Imam

Baba, now Imeni Chapayeva vill. (36.718°N 62.457°E) [ ZISP], examined .

TYPE MATERIAL. Turkmenistan: Lectotype (designated here), ♀: "18- VI 25 Имам-

Баба / В Гуссаковский [handwritten by V. Gussakovskij] // Ptygosphex / murgabensis n sp

[handwritten by V. Gussakovskij] / V. Gusakovsky leg // Lectotype ♀ / Ptygosphex murgabensis / Gussakovskij, 1928 / design. Mokrousov, 2018" [ ZISP]. Paralectotype, 1♀

with the same label [ ZISP]. OTHER MATERIAL. Russia: * Kalmykiya, Davsna sands, 20

km E Khulhuta, 46.292°N 46.672°E, 16.VI 2018, 1♂ ( MM) [ MMC]; Astrakhan Prov.; near

Volzhskiy, 46.965°N 47.53°E, 8.VII 2017, 1♀ ( MM), [ MMC]; 11 km N Malyy Aral ,

46.7649°N 48.4936°E, 26.V 2019, 1♀, 4♂ ( MM) [ MMC]. Turkmenistan: Kirpili , 100 km

NE Serdar (former Kyzyl-Arvat), 13.V 1953, 1♀ (E. Ahrens) [ ZISP]. Repetek, 25–27.IV

1991, 1♂ ( V. I. Tobias) [ ZISP]. * Uzbekistan: Kashkadarya Prov. , Sundukli desert, 38.962441°N

64.540643°E, 16, 21.V 2015, 8♀, 1♂ ( MM) [ MMC]. Tajikistan: 15 km SW Dusti (37.233°N

68.581°E), 16.VI 1975, 2♀ (Yu.A. Pesenko) [ ZISP]. Kazakhstan: Syrdaria Prov. , Karatau

Mt., near Djulek. (Karataugeb. bei Djulek, Balamurun) (44.4°N 66.833°E), no date (Koshan-

tschikow), 1♀ [ ZISP] .

NOTE. First metasomal tergum of lectotype is deformed. This species was known in

Russia from Astrakhan Prov. and newly recorded from Kalmykia and Uzbekistan.