Macromyrme villosa ( Klug, 1829 )

Lelej, Arkady S., Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. & Maharramov, Mahir M., 2022, A review of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of Azerbaijan, Zootaxa 5155 (1), pp. 61-86 : 77

Macromyrme villosa ( Klug, 1829) , stat. resurr., comb. nov.

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Mutilla villosa Klug, 1829 : Dec. 1: [4], N 12, tab. 4, fig. 12, ♀ “Ex Syria ” [ Lebanon, between Tripoli, Beirut and Baalbeck, May 18–Aug. 6 1824 (Baker 1997)], lectotype (designated here), ♀, “ Syrien, Ehrenberg S. / sinuata Oliv. nº-18. videtur [probably handwritten by O. Radoskowski, who saw the type of villosa ] / 6512 / Type villosa Kl / sinuata Ol. det. Bischoff / Zool. Muz. Berlin / Lectotype Mutilla villosa Klug, 1829 B. Petersen des. 1988 / Mutilla sinuata Oliv. B. Petersen det. 1988” [MNHU], examined]. Junior subjective synonym of Mutilla sinuata Olivier, 1811 according to Sichel & Radoszkowski 1870: 237.

Mutilla sinuata : auctorum.

Material examined. Palestine, Jerusalemm , 1.IV.1914, Pastukhov, 1♀ [ ZIN] . Israel: Mitzpe Ramon , 17–19.IV.1994, M. Volkovich, 1 ♀ [ IBSS] .

Distribution. Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Morocco.

Note. Børge Petersen (unpublished) labelled the specimen in MNHU with Klug’s “Type” label as the lectotype . Since no validly published lectotype designation has yet been made, we hereby designate the specimen so labelled by Petersen as the lectotype.

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FIGURES 2–10. Labels of the type specimens. 2. Agama caucasica Radoszkowski, 1885, ♂, lectotype [MNHU]; 3. Mutilla armeniaca Kolenati, 1846, ♀, lectotype [NHMW]; 4. M. elongata Radoszkowski, 1885, ♂, lectotype [MNHU]; 5. Ephutomma radoszkovskii Skorikov, 1935, ♂, lectotype [MNHU]; 6. M. arameana var. atrithorax André, 1902, ♂, holotype [NHMW]; 7. M. araratica Radoszkowski, 1890, ♀, lectotype [MNHU]; 8. M. binotata Radoszkowski, 1879, ♀, lectotype [MNHU]; 9. M. villosa Klug, 1829, ♀, lectotype [MNHU]; 10. M. duplex Radoszkowski, 1885, ♂, lectotype [MNHU]. Photos by A. Lelej.