Abstract
The splitting between Pseudotiphia villosa (Fabricius, 1793) and Pseudotiphia olcesei (Tournier, 1889) is examined with the resulting restoration of the latter as a good species. The synonymy of Tiphia beckeri Tournier, 1889 with Tiphia villosa is proposed together with the new combination of the name Tiphia arenicola Kohl, 1889 under Pseudotiphia and its synonymy with Pseudotiphia caspica Boni Bartalucci, 2010.
References
- Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. (1976) Sphecid wasps of the world. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, IX + 695 pp. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520309548
- Boni Bartalucci, M. (2010) A review of the genus Pseudotiphia ASHMEAD 1903 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae). Linzer biologische Beitrage, 42 (2), 1183–1236.
- Fabricius, J.C. (1793) Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta secundum Classes, ordines, genera; Species adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus II. Proft, Hafniae, 519 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.125869
- Gauld, I. & Bolton, B. (1988) The Hymenoptera. British Museum (Natural History) and Oxford University press, Oxford, 332 pp.
- Kohl, F. & Handlirsch, A. (1889) Transcaspische Hymenopteren. Verhandlungender zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft Wien, 39, 284–285.
- Tournier, H. (1889) Hymenoptères familles des Scolides. Monographie des espèces éuropéenne et des contrés limitrophes du genre Tiphia. Annales. Soietè Entomologique Bélgique, 33, 1–35.