Pseudomalus violaceus (Scopoli, 1763)

Rosa, Paolo, Wei, Na-sen & Xu, Zai-fu, 2014, An annotated checklist of the chrysidid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) from China, ZooKeys 455, pp. 1-128 : 26

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scientific name	Pseudomalus violaceus (Scopoli, 1763)
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Treatment

87. Pseudomalus violaceus (Scopoli, 1763)

Sphex violacea Scopoli, 1763: 298. Holotype ♀, Italy: Trieste (298 (descr.), depository: lost).

Ellampus violaceus f. virens Mocsáry, 1889: Tsuneki 1953a: 54 (cit.).

Ellampus violaceus : Tsuneki 1953a: 54 (Manchuria [= Inner Mongolia]: Hairar, tax., distr.).

Omalus (Omalus) violaceus : Linsenmaier 1959: 14 (key), 17 (tax., descr., auratus group); Linsenmaier 1997b: 31 (key), 48 (Manchuria, tax., descr., fig. 16).

Omalus violaceus : Móczár 1967: 30 (Manchuria, key, tax., descr., distr.); Banaszak 1980: 9 (tax., biol., distr.).

Pseudomalus violaceus : Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 264 (fig. 85g), 270 (cat.).

Distribution.

China (Inner Mongolia). Widely distributed in the Palaearctic Region ( Kimsey and Bohart 1991).

Remarks.

The identification by Tsuneki (1953a) should be double-checked. The specimen may be related to Pseudomalus bergi Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1932.