Macromyrme villosa (Klug, 1829), stat. resurr., comb. nov.

Fig. 9

Mutilla villosa Klug, 1829: Dec. 1: [4], N 12, tab. 4, fig. 12, ♀ “Ex Syria ” [Lebanon, between Tripoli, Beirut and Baalbeck, May 18–Aug. 6 1824 (Baker 1997)], lectotype (designated here), ♀, “ Syrien, Ehrenberg S. / sinuata Oliv. nº-18. videtur [probably handwritten by O. Radoskowski, who saw the type of villosa] / 6512 / Type villosa Kl / sinuata Ol. det. Bischoff / Zool. Muz. Berlin / Lectotype Mutilla villosa Klug, 1829 B. Petersen des. 1988 / Mutilla sinuata Oliv. B. Petersen det. 1988” [MNHU], examined]. Junior subjective synonym of Mutilla sinuata Olivier, 1811 according to Sichel & Radoszkowski 1870: 237.

Mutilla sinuata: auctorum.

Material examined. Palestine, Jerusalemm, 1.IV.1914, Pastukhov, 1♀ [ZIN] . Israel: Mitzpe Ramon, 17–19.IV.1994, M. Volkovich, 1 ♀ [IBSS] .

Distribution. Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Morocco.

Note. Børge Petersen (unpublished) labelled the specimen in MNHU with Klug’s “Type” label as the lectotype . Since no validly published lectotype designation has yet been made, we hereby designate the specimen so labelled by Petersen as the lectotype.