Pseudotiphia beckeri ( TOURNIER 1889) Boni & O, 2010

Boni, M. & O, Tiphia, 2010, A review of the genus Pseudotiphia ASHMEAD 1903 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2), pp. 1183-1236 : 1208-1209

Pseudotiphia beckeri ( TOURNIER 1889) comb.nov.

Tiphia Beckeri TOURNIER 1889: 9-10 ,

Tiphia morio var. beckeri: DUSMET Y ALONSO (1930: 65) Ludita villosa beckeri: ARBOUW (1984: 12-13) Lectotypus here designated in order to ensure the name’ proper and consistent use: Russia =

/Beck Sarep./ /154/ / Tiphia beckeri T/ (autographic) /Musée de Genève/ /morio var. ?? det

Dott. D. Guiglia/ / Lectotypus Tiphia beckeri Tourn. design. V. Gorbatovsky 1987/ (red)

/Ludita beckeri Tour / / Tiphia villosa F. Gorbatovsky det./, MHNG. Paralectotypus: Russia = /Beck Sarep./ /Ludita beckeri Tour / / Paralectotypus Tiphia beckeri

Tourn. design. V. Gorbatovsky 1987/ (red) / Tiphia villosa F. Gorbatovsky det./, MHNG Tiphia morio subsp fuscipennis: HEDICKE (1936: 18) Tiphia morio beckeri: GUIGLIA (1956: 97-98) Ludita villosa beckeri: ARBOUW (1984: 12-13)

Female. Paralectotype. Figs 50-53 . Size 11mm

Coloration like Ps. villosa , but the brown legs. Vertex depressed in frontal aspect. Ratio between length of apical three and length of basal three Pam only a bit more than 1.1. N 1 disk more tightened anteriorly. P not enlarged posteriorly like in holotypus of Ps. villosa . p less impressed and much more sparse throughout the body, the iS are mostly many times their diametre. Sensorial areas of mid and hind tibiae weakly evident, flushed with surrounding surface.

Male. Lectotype. Figs 54-59 . Size 12.5 mm

It differs from villosa (apart genitalia) in - brown colour of flagellum and lighrt brown mandibles, tegulae and legs - vertex, temple and genae bipunctate - N 1 disk with an ill defined ridge along its foreborder and very smaller p with always expressed iS as large or larger than their diametre - omaulus ill expressed on only its upper tyhird - p on Sc 1 and Sc 2 smaller and less impressed, with iS up to many times their diametre - postscutellar area flattened - horizontal P irregularly and completely sculptured, without expressed areola - ridge on its posterior border high, very lamella-like along its entire length - es 2 bipunctate almost throughout - Last 2 regularly p throughout - es 3 roughly shagreened with vertical wrinkles on its back fourth - gradulus on 1 st tergum subrectilinear, while gradulus on 2 nd tergum has a backward rounded tip on the middle - horizontal surface of 1 st sternum roughly p with lateral ridges delimiting it - ill defined gradulus on 2 nd sternum - no mR on mid femur nor on most of metameri, well evident only at the base of 2 nd to 6 th sterna

N o t e. Tournier first described the female. Gorbatovsky (probably) and me choose the male as Lectotype since the male only bears the original autographic label. TOURNIER referred about 6 and 2 with size ranging between 12 and 15 mm. At Geneve Museum only 1 and 1 exist.

Figures

Figs 50-59. Pseudotiphia beckeri (Paralectotypus) – (50) head, frontal aspect; (51) Pam; (52) labrum, frontal aspect; (53) pronotum, dorsal aspect. Pseudotiphia beckeri (Lectotypus) (54) head, frontal aspect; (55) propodeum, dorsal aspect; (56) fore wing; (57) basal two metameri, dorsal aspect; (58) gonosquama, lateral aspect; (59) tip of aedeagus, lateral aspect.