Quartinia André, 1884

Fateryga, A. V. & Buyanjargal, B., 2022, New records of Quartinia mongolica (Morawitz, 1889), with a comment on a closely related species Q. funebris Kostylev, 1935 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae), Far Eastern Entomologist 453, pp. 8-16 : 9-11

Genus Quartinia André, 1884

Quartinia André, 1884: 822–823 . Type species: Quartinia dilecta André, 1884 , by monotypy.

Quartiniella von Schulthess, 1929: 510 . Type species: Quartiniella waterstoni von Schulthess,

1929, by monotypy.

Quartinioides Richards, 1962: 170 . Type species: Quartinia capensis Kohl, 1898 , by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS. Representatives of the genus can be distinguished from other pollen wasps by the following characters: body size comparatively small, clypeus emarginated apically,

antenna with a club, metanotum entirely vertical and visible only at center (its sides hidden between scutellum and propodeum), sides of metasoma not acute, sterna not flat, wings capable of longitudinal folding.

view; 2 – habitus, lateral view; 3 – head, frontal view; 4 – labels); 5–8 – ♂, paralectotype

(5 – habitus, dorsal view; 6 – habitus, lateral view; 7 – head, frontal view; 8 – apex of metasoma, dorsal view). Scale bars 0.5 mm.

SPECIES INCLUDED. At least 45 species from the Palaearctic and 99 described species from the Afrotropical region (J.M. Carpenter, in litt.).