Prionyx viduatus viduatus ( Christ 1791 )

Danilov, Yuriy N., 2012, The digger wasps of the genus Prionyx Vander Linden (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) of Russia and Central Asia, with a key to species, new synonymies, and lectotype designations, Zootaxa 3526, pp. 59-71 : 67-68

Prionyx viduatus viduatus ( Christ 1791)

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Sphex viduatus Christ 1791: 305 . Syntypes: sex not indicated, France: Provence Region: no specific locality (lost). Sphex pubescens Fabricius 1793: 205 . Lectotype, designated by van der Vecht 1961: 33: 3, Guinea: no specific locality (ZMK), synonymized with Sphex viduatus by Kohl 1890: 332.

Sphex micans Eversmann 1849: 368 . Syntypes: Russia: lower Volga area (ZIN), synonymized with Sphex viduatus by Kohl 1890: 332.

Sphex pollens Kohl 1885a: 186 . Syntypes: Ƥ, Greece: Athens (NHMW).

Sphex leuconotus F. Morawitz 1890: 579 , nom. praeocc., nec Sphex leuconotus Brullé 1833 . Lectotype, designated here: Ƥ, Turkmenistan: Ashgabat (Transcaspia) (ZIN), examined. New synonymy.

Sphex platynotus Matsumura 1912: 177 . Syntypes: Ƥ, Japan: Okinawa: no specific locality (depository unknown), synonymized with Sphex viduatus by Yasumatsu 1935: 36.

Sphex perezi Berland 1926: 170 . Lectotype, designated by Menke in Bohart & Menke 1976: 134: Ƥ, Senegal: no specific locality (MNHN), synonymized with Prionyx viduatus by Guichard 1988: 121.

Prionyx viduatus: Iwata 1964: 355 ; Myartseva 1972: 85; Bohart & Menke 1976: 134; Kazenas 1978: 44; 1998: 127; 2001: 86; 2002: 31; Pulawski 2012: 30.

Material examined: 132 Ƥ, 102 3 from Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Yemen, Greece, and Japan.

Remark. The lectotype of Sphex leuconotus F. Morawitz was collected by General Alexander V. Komarov and donated to Ferdinand F. Morawitz.

Distribution: Portugal, Spain, France, Malta, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia (Astrakhan, Rostov regions), Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, UAE, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, China, Japan, the Canary Islands, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Niger, Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Somalia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

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FIGURES 10 – 19. Lectotypes, specimens and labels. 10. Sphex hispidus Morawitz, 11. Sphex persicus Mocsáry; 12. Sphex sirdariensis Radoszkowski; 13. Sphex suavis Morawitz, 14. Sphex stschurowskii Radoszkowski; 15. P. zarudnyi; 16. Sphex tenuicornis Morawitz; 17. Podium maracandicum Radoszkowski; 18. Sphex melanotus Morawitz; 19. Sphex leuconotus Morawitz.