Brachygaster minutus (Olivier, 1791)

Belokobylskij, S. A., 2019, Ensign wasps (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea, Evaniidae) in the fauna of Russia, with description of a new Brachygaster Leach species from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Zootaxa 4629 (3), pp. 379-388 : 380-382

Brachygaster minutus (Olivier, 1791) 1

( Figs 1 A–J)

See Deans (2005: 19) for complete taxonomic information.

Material examined. RUSSIA. Republic of Karelia: 1 male, „Sbor Olonetskoy Ekspeditsii“ [= Collection of Olonetsk expedition], 19.VII.1921 (no collector). Leningradskaya Province: 1 male, Terioki [= Zelenogorsk], 18.VII.1891 (no collector); 1 female, 2 males; Terioki [= Zelenogorsk] (F. Morawitz collection); 1 female, Komarovo , 10.VIII.1973 (O. Kryzhanovskiy leg.); 1 male, Gory Station, Kirovsk District , 7.VII.1984 (V. Trjapitzin leg.); 1 male, environs of Peterhof, Lebyazh’ya Villige , 2.VII.1897 (Chekini leg.); 1 male, St Petersburg, “ Kharl. Gora “, 11.VII.1898 (Genter leg.); 1 female, 1 male, Luga District, Yashchera , 22.VII.1957 and 18.VII.1961 (A. Stackelberg leg.); 1 male, Shlisselburg District, Mednoe Village , 7.VII.1920 (V. Barovskiy leg.); 1 male, „Luzhskiy uezd“ [= Luga District ], 12–16.V.1897 (N. Kokujev collection). Smolensk Province: 2 males, „Smolenskoe poozer’e“ National Park , 18 & 27.VII.1991 (V. Zlobin leg.). Yaroslavl Province: 1 male, Berditsyno , 3.VII.1892 (A. Yakovlev leg.). Ryazan Province: 2 males, Kazachiy , “Ranenburgskiy uezd“, 17. VI.1909 (A. Semenov-Tian-Shanskij leg.). Kaluga Province: 1 female, 1 male, Tarusa , 21–24.VIII.1953 (N. Plavilshchikov leg.). Nizhny Novgorod Province: 2 females, Arzamas District, environs of Staraya Pustyn‘ , 3.X.1999 and 20.VIII.2003 (M. Mokrousov leg.). Chuvashia Republic : 3 males, Cheboksary , oak-forest, window trap, 7–21.VII & 21.VII–2.VIII.2011 (L. Egorov leg.). Mordovia Republic : 1 female, Temnikov District, Mordovskiy Nature Reserve , 54˚53̍ 23.6̍ N 43˚28̍ 57.7 E, kvartal 79, window trap, 16.VIII–17.IX. 2018 (L. Egorov leg.). Samara Province: 1 male, Stavropolskiy District, Zhiguli State Nature Reserve, Udobnyi ravine, forest, 17.VII.2010 (V. Chemyreva leg.). Saratov Province: 1 male, 5 km W Khvalynsk , 52˚29̍ 26̍ N 48˚02̍ 75̍ E, Malaise trap, 4–10.VII.2016 (V. Anikin leg.). Krasnodar Territory : 1 female, 8 males, Sochi, Lazarevskoe , VI.1974 & 2–3.VII.1985 (V. Tobias leg.); 2 males, Sochi, Lazarevskoe , 1.IX. & 16.XI.2015 (E. Tselikh & D. Rachin leg.). Kabardino-Balkaria Republic : 1 female, Nalchik , (Yu. Vagner leg.). Dagestan Republic: 1 male, Gunib , steppe, 12.VII.1924 (M. Ryabov leg.); 1 male, Khodzhal-makhi , 19. VI.1925 (A. Kirichenko leg.); 7 males, Samur Nature Reserve , 41.8667˚ N 48.5565 ˚ E, 4.VII.2018 (K. Fadeev leg.). Republic of Crimea : 8 males, Belogorsk, Karasyovka , flood plain, 2, 4. VI & 8.VII.1977, 6.VI.1979, 31.V & 24.VII.1980 (I. Maltsev leg.); 1 male, Bakhchisaray , 16.VII.1982 (collector unknown); 1 male, Zuya , 24.VII.1953 (F. Bogachev leg.). ABKHAZIA. 1 male, Pitsundo-Myusserskiy Nature Reserve , 22.V.1983 (R. Dbar leg.). AZERBAIJAN. 1 male, Lenkoran‘ [= Lankaran], 1930 (A. Shestakov leg.). GEORGIA. 1 male, Borjomi , plateau, 22.VIII.1982 (M. Gurasashvili leg.); 2 males, environs Batumi, Zelyonyi Mts, forest in Botanical Garden , 19.IX.1965 (K. Gorodkov leg.); 1 female, 10 km S Akhaltsikhe, Sapari , forest, 6.IX.1982 (D. Kasparyan leg.); 2 males, Lagodekhi (Mlokosewich leg.). KAZAKHSTAN. 4 females, 5 males, 60 km NW Ural’sk, Pogodaev , 18.VIII.1949 (L. Arnoldi leg.). KYRGYZSTAN. 1 male, 15 km SW Arslanbob, Ak-Terek, Uygur-Say hole, northern slope, 1800 m, walnut forest, 14.VIII.1969 (K. Gorodkov leg.). MOLDOVA. 8 males, Goluboe [= Khuluboaya], forest, slopes, 7. VI.1967 (V. Talitskiy leg.); 7 males, Kotovskoe [= Cotovscoe], slopes, 4. VI.1967 (V. Talitskiy leg.). UKRAINE. 1 male, Ivano- Frankovsk Province, 22 km SW Varokhty, Pozhizhevskaya Mountain , 1500 m, 26–27.VII.1989 (D. Kasparyan leg.) .

Distribution. Russia: * EP (N, NW, C, E, NC, CR).—Europe (WE, NE, SE, EE), N Africa, *Abkhazia, * Azerbaijan, * Georgia, Israel, * Kyrgyzstan, * Kazakhstan.

Hosts. Cockroach oothecae of Blatta orientalis Linnaeus,1758 (Blattidae) , Blatella germanica (Linnaeus, 1767) , Ectobius lapponicus (Linnaeus,1758) , E. pallidus (Olivier, 1789) and E. panzeri Stephens, 1835 (Ectobiidae) ( Deans, 2005; Deans et al., 2012).

Remarks. Two females from Leningradskaya and Nizhny Novgorod Provinces have legs at least partly pale ( Fig 1B ), whereas with most of the studied specimens all legs are predominantly black ( Fig 1A ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Brachygaster minutus (Olivier, 1791) (A, C–J, male; B, female). A, B, Habitus, lateral view. C, Antenna, lateral view. D, Head, dorsal view. E, Head, front view. F, Head and mesosoma, lateral view. G, Mesosoma, dorsal view. H, Metasoma, dorsal view. I, Petiole, dorsal view. J, Metasoma, lateral view.