Omotilla conjuncta (KLUG, 1829)

Madl, Michael, 2021, A catalogue of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea) of Eritrea, Linzer biologische Beiträge 53 (2), pp. 715-741 : 736

Omotilla conjuncta (KLUG, 1829)

Mutilla conjuncta KLUG, 1829 : GRIBODO 1884: 389 (taxonomy, Assab).

Mutilla conjuncta KLUG, 1829 : ANDRÉ 1899-1903: 252 (key ♀, taxonomy, description ♀, Ethiopia = Eritrea).

Mutilla conjuncta KLUG, 1829 : ANDRÉ 1903: 33 (world catalogue).

Mutilla conjuncta KLUG, 1829 : MAGRETTI 1906: 10 (Sabarguma), 32 (key ♀), 57 (taxonomy, Ghinda, Massawa, Otumlo, Ras Ghedem, Sabarguma), 87 (catalogue Eritrea).

Odontotilla conjuncta (KLUG, 1829) : BISCHOFF 1920: 71 (key), 73 (taxonomy, Allatò, Assab, Massawa, Rhas Ghedeni = Ras Ghedem, Sabarguma).

Odontotilla conjuncta (KLUG, 1829) : INVREA 1941b: 309 (taxonomy, Dahlak Kebir).

Odontotilla (Conjunctototilla) conjuncta (KLUG, 1829) : NONVEILLER 1996b: 311 (figs 5m, 6b), 319 (fig. 10e), 330 (typus subgeneris), 331 (key, taxonomy, Assab, Massawa, Sabarguma), 333 (fig. 16: map), 345 (figs 21a, 22a), 353 (tab. 1: distribution), 354 (world catalogue).

Omotilla conjuncta (KLUG, 1829) : LELEJ & VAN HARTEN 2006: 9 (figs 9, 10), 13 (world catalogue), 14 (taxonomy, description ♁, Assab).

Omotilla conjuncta (KLUG, 1829) : PAGLIANO et al. 2020: 154 (world catalogue).

* Odontotilla conjuncta eritreana n.f.: BISCHOFF 1920: 71 (key), 74 (description ♀, Allatò, Massawa, Otumlo, Emberemi, Sabarguma). unavailable name

Odontotilla conjuncta f. erytreana (!) (BISCHOFF, 1920): INVREA 1936: 118 (taxonomy, Eritrea without exact locality).

Odontotilla conjuncta var. erytreana (!) (BISCHOFF, 1920): INVREA 1941: 309 (taxonomy, Eritrea without exact locality).

Odontotilla conjuncta f. eritreana (BISCHOFF, 1920): NONVEILLER 1978: 19 (Otumlo, Eritrea without exact locality, catalogue lost specimens Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Andrea Doria, Genova, as Ctenotilla ).

Odontotilla (Conjunctilla) conjuncta f. erythreana (!) (BISCHOFF, 1920): NONVEILLER 1996b: 332 (taxonomy (synonym), description ♀, no material from Eritrea examined).

Omotilla conjuncta erytreana (!) (BISCHOFF, 1920): PAGLIANO et al. 2020: 154 (world catalogue).

* Odontotilla (Conjunctotilla) conjuncta f. nigricolor (ANDRÉ, 1898): NONVEILLER 1996d: 332 (taxonomy (synonym), description ♀, Assab, Massawa, Sabarguma, Eritrea without exact locality), 353 (tab. 1: distribution), 354 (catalogue Afrotropical region).

Omotilla conjuncta ssp. nigricolor (ANDRÉ, 1898) : PAGLIANO et al. 2020: 154 (world catalogue).

D i s t r i b u t i o n Allatò, Assab, Ghinda, Massawa, Otumlo, Ras Ghedem, Sabarguma, Dahlak Kebir – Eritrea without exact locality ( INVREA 1936, 1941, NONVEILLER 1978, 1996d).

Omotilla conjuncta is known from the Afrotropical ( Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritania, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan) and Palaearctic ( Saudi Arabia, Yemen) regions. Odontotilla conjuncta f. eritreana BISCHOFF, 1920 is an unavailable name. If the status of a subspecies is justified as proposed by PAGLIANO et al. (2020), a new name should be given to the taxon. PAGLIANO et al. (2020) raised Omotilla conjuncta nigricolor to a subspecies. In this case I follow NONVEILLER 1996d, who has synonymized the taxon with Omotilla conjuncta .