Radoszkowskitilla ceylonica (Lelej, 1993)

Lelej, A. S., 2020, TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF VELVET ANTS OF THE GENERA ARTIOTILLA INVREA, RADOSZKOWSKITILLA LELEJ AND TAIWANOMYRME TSUNEKI (HYMENOPTERA: MUTILLIDAE), Far Eastern Entomologist 410, pp. 1-10 : 6

Radoszkowskitilla ceylonica (Lelej, 1993)

Indratilla ceylonica Lelej, 1993: 235 , figs 2, 4, 5, ♀, holotype, Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura

District: 9 km SW Anuradhapura, dry forest, 10.X 1982 (G. Medvedev) [ZIN], examined.

Radoszkowskitilla ceylonica: Lelej, 2005: 75 , 188, ♀; Pagiano et al., 2020: 258, fig. 407, ♀.

Radoszkowskitilla tamila Lelej, 2005: 76 , 189, figs 193–196, ♂, holotype, Sri Lanka, Mannar

District: 0.8 km NE Kokmotte Bungalow, Wilpattu National Park, 21–25.V 1976, K.

Krombein, P. Karunaratne, S. Karunaratne, D. Balasooriya / Pristomutilla ianthis Turner,

B. Petersen det., 1980 [ NMNH], examined, syn. n.; Pagiano et al., 2020: 259, ♂ .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Paratype of Radoszkowskitilla tamila , ♂, Sri Lanka :

Trincomalee District: Trincomalee, China Bay, Ridge Bungalow, 25-50 ft, 26.II

1979, K. Krombein, T. Wijesinhe, S. Siriwardane, L. Jayawickrema, T. Guna-

wardane / Pristomutilla ianthis Turner, B. Petersen det., 1980 [ IBSS]. Additional material. Sri Lanka: Mannar District : Marichchukkaddi, 25.I 1978, 1 ♀ (K. Krombein et al.) NMNH ]; 0.8 km NE Kokmotte Bungalow, Wilpattu National Park , 21 –

25.V 1976, 1 ♀ (K. Krombein, P. Karunaratne, S. Karunaratne, D. Balasooriya)

MNH]; same place, 5-8.X 1977, 3 ♀ (K. Krombein et al.) [ NMNH]; same place,

15–16.II 1979, 5 ♀ (K. Krombein et al.) [ NMNH]. India : Karnataka, 15 km N

Bangalore, KT, 23–24.VII 1996, 2 ♀ (K. Werner, L. Lorenz) [ MZUF, IBSS]. Tamil

Nadu , Auroville, 10 km N Pondicherry, 18.III 2007, 1 ♀ (F. Burger) [ IBSS], same place, discipline forest, 21.I 2009, 1 ♀ (F. Burger) [ IBSS] ,

DISTRIBUTION. India: Karnataka, *Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka: Northern Province ,

North Central Province, Eastern Province,

REMARKS. One male of Radoszkowskitilla tamila and one female of R. ceylonica were collected in Sri Lanka at the same place and time by the same collectors.

I think that they are opposite sexes of the same species and younger name tamila is a junior subjective synonym of ceylonica .