Prionyx subfuscatus ( Dahlbom 1845 )

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

Prionyx subfuscatus ( Dahlbom 1845)

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Sphex subfuscatus Dahlbom 1845: 436 . Syntypes: sex not indicated, Ukraine: Tauria, now Crimea (possibly lost).

Sphex desertorum Eversmann 1849: 368 . Syntypes: Ƥ, 3, Russia: Astrakhan, Orenburg, and Saratov regions; Kazakhstan (ZIN), synonymized with Sphex subfuscatus by Kohl 1885a: 179.

Enodia chrysoptera Ruthe et Stein 1857: 312 . Holotype: Ƥ, Germany: Berlin area (ZMHU), synonymized with Sphex subfuscatus by Kohl 1885a: 179.

Gastrosphaeria anthracina A. Costa 1858: 10 . Syntypes: Ƥ, 3, Italy: various localities (MZUN), synonymized with Sphex subfuscatus by Kohl 1885a: 179.

Prionyx subfuscatus: Diniz 1965: 4 ; Myartseva 1972: 84; Bohart & Menke 1976: 134; Kazenas 1978: 41; 1998: 125; 2001: 85; 2002: 30; Pulawski 2012: 24.

Material examined: 158 Ƥ, 188 3 from Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, and Korea.

Distribution: Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Albania, Croatia, Malta, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Cyprus, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia (Voronezh, Saratov, Rostov, Volgograd, Astrakhan, Ulyanovsk, Orenburg regions, Altai Territory, Tyva Republic, Irkutsk region, Buryatia Republic, Primorskiy Territory), Israel, Palestine, Oman, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Korea, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Angola, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Somalia, India.