Poecilotiphia melaena BONI BARTALUCCI, 2013

G. B, Ba, N. & Boni, M., 2013, New Myzinin wasps from Turkey (Hymenoptera Tiphiidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 2155-2163 : 2157-2158

Poecilotiphia melaena BONI BARTALUCCI nov.sp.

M a t e r i a l: Holotypus: Turkey = / Turkey (Van) 30 km N. Ba kale 2700m 11.VII.1987 leg. R.Hensen/ NBC.

D e s c r i p t i o n.

Male (Holotype). Figs 9-16. Body size: 7,5 mm

Black. Tegulae, veins and pterostigma are semitransparent brown. Legs are blackish brown. Hyaline wings. Brownish hair on the head, whitish elsewhere. Punctuation without peculiar settling.

Clypeus with a distinct median notch on its ventral edge. Ratio between length of oral fossa and genal bridge about 2.8. Suture of the genal bridge like a stitch and the same level with lower genae. Placoids hill defined on last four flagellomeri. 8 th flagellomerus: ratio L / A about 1.7. Lateral pronotum with strong concentric wrinkles on its posterior half. Pronotal plate with flattened upper profile in frontal aspect. Postscutellar area abrupltly prominent on lateral areas of metanotum and with a distinct low longitudinal "mucrone". Propodeal disk strongly corrugated; posterior area concave and with high transversal wrinkles, one of them well delimits it from disk. Propleurae gently rounded. Also postepimeron and lower lateral propodeum strongly wrinkled. Hind trochanter ventral surface gently rounded, without any carina along its posterior edge. 1 st tergum somewhat globose. 2 nd tergal exposed surface (between gradulus an back border) with a ratio LAp / Am about 2.1. 1 st sternum roughly puncturated with very short interspaces. 1 st to 6 th tergal and 2 nd to 6 th sternal surfaces with a transversal sub apical swelling like a sort of rough gradulus. Lobes of 7 th tergum with a bit divergent tips; median notch larger than their length.

Genitalia lost.

Female unknown.

D e r i v a t i o n o m i n i s From the Greek μ (female: μ ) which means dark, black.

D i s c u s s i o n. Very close taxon to P. nigra RADOSZKOWSKYI (1887) and P. brevicauda MORAWITZ (1890), whose systematic relations where examined also by GUIGLIA (1963, 1965) and lectotypes with arrangement under Poecilotiphia established by GORBATOVSKY (1980, 1981). Here a synoptic table among them:

F i g u r e d s p e c i m e n s P. nigra: figs 17-21 [/USSR Kazachstan Dzambul env. (115 km) Akkol (Pololuat) 1.6.1980 Z. Padr leg/ / Meria brevicauda MOR Dr. Z.Padr det/ (ll egg 92-93 ex coll. Z. Padr / MZUF ( OLML gift)]; P brevicauda: figs 22-26 [/Mongolia- E – 100km W Choibalsna 820m 23.7.2007 M.Halada leg/ MZUF ( OLML gift)].

Together with P. celaena BONI BARTALUCCI 2012 from Spain, which is close to P. rousselii (GUÈRIN 1838), they form a group with spotless black body (apart whitish markings on the legs of P. nigra and P. celaena).

N o t e. In a previous paper (BONI BARTALUCCI 2001) it was claimed about a rounded hind trochanter of P. brevicauda as distinctive character from P. nigra. It was a clear mistake which on the other hand does not weaken the fact that we are dealing with two distinct taxa, both of them absolutely pertaining to the genus Poecilotiphia .