Psiliglossa odyneroides (S.S. Saunders, 1850 )

Fateryga, Alexander V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, New records of the solitary Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae and Eumeninae s. l.) from Central Asia, with new synonyms and description of a new species of Eumenes Latreille, Zootaxa 5529 (3), pp. 551-569 : 564

Psiliglossa odyneroides (S.S. Saunders, 1850)

Raphiglossa odyneroides Saunders, 1850: 72 , pl. VI, figs 2, 3, ♀ ♂ (type locality: “in Epiro ” [ Greece]).

Psiloglossa odyneroides kozhantshikovi Kostylev, 1940a: 139 , ♀ ♂ (type locality: Turcomanie [ Turkmenistan]), syn. nov.

Material examined. PARATYPE Of PSILOGLOSSA ODYNEROIDES KOZHANTSHIKOVI : TURKMENISTAN. Imam-Baba, 12–14.V.1912, 1 ♂, leg. V. Kozhantshikov [ ZISP] . Additional material. NORTH MACEDONIA: Dojran Lake , 10.VII.1968, 1 ♀, leg. Z. Pádr [ FSCV] . GREECE: Epirus, 1 ♀, 1 ♂ [ ZISP] . GEORGIA: Tiflis [Tbilisi], Botanical Garden , 26.VI.1929, 2 ♂, leg. G. Zimin [ ZISP] . TURKMENISTAN. Imam-Baba , 16.V.1932, 1 ♀, leg. A. Shestakov [ ZISP]; ibid., 17.V.1932, 2 ♂, leg. A. Shestakov [ ZISP, ZMMU] . UZBEKISTAN (new records): 2 km SW Simbulak , 40°38′37″N, 66°36′18″E, 31.V.2023, 1 ♀, leg. A. Fateryga [ CAFK]; ibid., 31.V.2023, 1 ♀, leg. M. Proshchalykin [ CAFK] . KAZAKHSTAN (new records). Jambyl Province: Arkhangelskoye [Ul’ken Sulutor], Kordayskiy Range , 29.VII.1929, 1 ♀ [ ZMMU]. Turkestan Province : Badam River , 30 km S Lenger, 16.VII.1981, 1 ♀, leg. V. Kazenas [ FSCV] .

Distribution. Southern Europe, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, * Uzbekistan, * Kazakhstan.

Remarks. The subspecies P. odyneroides kozhantshikovi , described from Turkmenistan, differs by a more extensive yellow pattern only (cf. Giordani Soika 1970), which is, in our opinion, not enough for the taxonomic independence. Kurzenko (1978) also reported a difference in the punctation of the lower part of the metapleuron (more coarsely and densely punctate in the nominotypical subspecies and more finely and sparsely in the subspecies P. odyneroides kozhantshikovi ). This punctation, however, varies even in the specimens from the type locality of P. odyneroides kozhantshikovi , so that a male collected by A. Shestakov [ZISP] has distinctly coarser punctures than those in the male paratype. Examined females from Uzbekistan have the coloration intermediate between that of the examined females from the Balkans and Turkmenistan, while the females from Kazakhstan are almost identical to those from the Balkans. Male genitalia examined from specimens from Georgia and Turkmenistan proved to be identical.

Kurzenko (1978: 870) designated the male collected in Imam-Baba by V. Kozhantshikov as a “ lectotype ” of P. odyneroides kozhantshikovi . This designation, however, was invalid because Kostylev (1940a: 139) indicated a female collected by V. Gussakovskij as the type of this subspecies (the holotype according to Art. 73.1.1 of ICZN 1999). Therefore, the male collected by V. Kozhantshikov is a paratype and cannot be designated as the lectotype (Art. 72.4.5 of ICZN 1999). The female holotype cannot be found in both ZISP and ZMMU and therefore it is apparently lost.

In the same paper, Kurzenko (1978: 870) mentioned the Stavropol Territory of Russia among the distribution of P. odyneroides odyneroides . This report was apparently based on the specimen collected from Arkhangelskoye, Jambyl Province ( Kazakhstan), and misinterpreted as collected in Arkhangelskoye, Stavropol Territory ( Russia). Antropov & Fateryga (2017) reported P. odyneroides from the Russian part of the Caucasus following Kurzenko’s paper (1978). Since there are no other reliable records of this species from Russia, it should be excluded from the fauna of this country.