Pseudomalus Ashmead, 1902

Paukkunen, Juho, Berg, Alexander, Soon, Villu, Odegaard, Frode & Rosa, Paolo, 2015, An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species, ZooKeys 548, pp. 1-116 : 13-14

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Genus Pseudomalus Ashmead, 1902 Figs 2, 26, 27-34

Pseudomalus Ashmead, 1902: 229.

Note.

This taxon was raised to generic rank by Kimsey and Bohart (1991). It is characterised by the structure and punctation of the mesosoma: the large punctures are clumped posteriorly between the notauli on the mesoscutum (Fig. 27), and the lateroventral margin of the mesopleuron is strongly projecting ventrally, forming a sharp angle in lateral view (Fig. 28). The posterior margin of T3 is usually deeply notched medially (Figs 31, 32). Pseudomalus is a Holarctic genus with approximately 40 recognised species ( Kimsey and Bohart 1991). The larvae are parasitoids of crabronid wasps of the subfamily Pemphredoninae. The European fauna consists of ten species ( Rosa and Soon 2012), of which four have been found in the Nordic and Baltic countries ( Paukkunen et al. 2014).

Key to Pseudomalus species of the Nordic and Baltic countries