Jucancistrocerus (Jucancistrocerus) tachkendensis ( Dalla Torre, 1889 )

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 : 562

Jucancistrocerus (Jucancistrocerus) tachkendensis ( Dalla Torre, 1889)

Odynerus ornatus André, 1884: 713 , ♀ (type locality: “Tachkend” [ Uzbekistan]), junior secondary homonym of Ancistrocerus ornatus Smith, 1852 and Leptochilus ornatus de Saussure, 1853 , both placed by Dalla Torre (1889) in Odynerus Latreille (Art. 59.3 of ICZN 1999).

Odynerus tachkendensis Dalla Torre, 1889: 125 , replacement name for Odynerus ornatus André, 1884 , nec Ancistrocerus ornatus Smith, 1852 , nec Leptochilus ornatus de Saussure, 1853 .

Jucancistrocerus lepidus Gusenleitner, 1973: 323 , ♀ ♂ (type locality: “Tedshen, tugai, Turkmenien” [ Turkmenistan]), synonymized by Gusenleitner 2013: 40.

Material examined. KAZAKHSTAN. Almaty Province: Charyn National Park , 18 km SWW Chundzha, 43.5028°N, 79.2134°E, 11.V.2024, 1 ♀, 4 ♂, leg. M. Proshchalykin [ CAFK] .

Distribution. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, China (North-West).

Remarks. This species is often spelled as J. “ tachkensis ” ( Giordani Soika 1970; van der Vecht & Fischer 1972; Kurzenko 1982; Li et al. 2022; Fateryga et al. 2023c) following Dalla Torre (1894, 1904), while the original spelling by Dalla Torre (1889) is J. tachkendensis , derived from the type locality “Tachkend” [Toshkent] (cf. Gusenleitner 2013). The report of this species for Kazakhstan ( Kurzenko 1982) was overlooked by Li et al. (2022).