Pseudoscolia ishkovi Kazenas, 1994

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 : 14-15

Pseudoscolia ishkovi Kazenas, 1994

Figs 6–8

Pseudoscolia ishkovi Kazenas, 1994: 34 , ♂. Holotype, ♂: Kazakhstan, Ili River valley , near

Bakanas [ZISP], examined.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. * Russia: Dagestan, Kizlyar Distr. , 7 km NW Staroterechnoe ,

43.904303° N 47.397925° E, 20. VI 2018, 1♂ (YuA, KF, VL, MM, MP) [MMC].

NOTE. This species is newly recorded from Dagestan. The specimen from Dagestan differs from the holotype by less developed light coloration of metasoma .

We are grateful to S.A. Belokobylskij (Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg) and A. V.

Antropov (Zoological Museum of Moscow State University), curators of the Hymenoptera collections, for the loaned material, A.S. Lelej, V.M. Loktionov and M.Yu. Proshchalykin

(Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Vladivostok), for the assistance in the preparation of publication. Special thanks to G.S. Dzhamirzoev (Dagestan

Nature Reserve, Makhachkala), for help in field survey. The work was partly supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (No17–04–00259 and No18–54–00011_Бел_а).

Figures

Figs 6–8. Pseudoscolia ishkovi Kazenas, ♂, Dagestan; 6 – habitus; 7 – head, frontal view;