Pseudolophotilla venustula (de SAUSSURE 1890)

Brothers, D. J., Lelej, A. S. & Madl, M., 2011, Annotated Catalogue of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion, Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1), pp. 115-149 : 132-133

Pseudolophotilla venustula (de SAUSSURE 1890)

Mutilla venustula de SAUSSURE 1890 : pl 7 (sp. nov., fig. 7 ♀, Madagascar).

Mutilla venustula de SAUSSURE : de SAUSSURE 1891: 257 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).

Mutilla venustula de SAUSSURE : de SAUSSURE 1892: 261 (key), 262 (tax.), 263 (tax.), 277 (tax., descr. ♀, Madagascar; syntypes " Grandidier " [MNHN], " Antananarivo " [MHNG]).

Mutilla venustula de SAUSSURE : de DALLA TORRE 1897: 95 (cat.).

Mutilla venustula de SAUSSURE : ANDRÉ 1902: 38 (cat.).

Mutilla venustula de SAUSSURE : SCHULTHEss 1919: 50 ( Madagascar).

Trogaspidia venustula (de SAUSSURE) : BISCHOFF 1920: 355 (key), 407 (tax., descr. ♀, Madagascar).

Trogaspidia (Trogaspidia) venustula (de SAUSSURE) : OLSOUFIEFF 1938: 182 (tax.), 189 (cat.), 190 (key, tax., descr. ♀, Madagascar), 212 (cat. ♀, Madagascar), 214 (cat. Ƌ, Madagascar), 215 (tax.), pl. II (fig. 21).

Trogaspidia venustula (de SAUSSURE) : OLSOUFIEFF 1938: 202 (key, tax., descr. Ƌ, Madagascar), 214 (cat. Ƌ, Madagascar), 215 (tax).

Timulla venustula (de SAUSSURE) : KROMBEIN 1951: 290 (tax.).

* Trogaspidia andraei OLSOUFIEFF 1938: 201 (sp. nov., key, descr. Ƌ, Madagascar; syntypes " Bekily (... M. Seyrig, 1930 et 1934)"), 214 (cat. Ƌ, Madagascar). new synonymy

Trogaspidia andraei OLSOUFIEFF: KROMBEIN 1972: 5 (tax. Ƌ, Madagascar).

Trogaspidia andraei OLSOUFIEFF: VIETTE 1978: 227 (tax., Madagascar; lectotype " Madagascar Bekily (Sud) Seyrig III-30 // Madagascar Ampandradava (S.) A. Seyrig 193" [ MNHN]) .

Pseudolophotilla andrei (!) (OLSOUFIEFF): NONVEILLER & ĆETKOVIĆ 1995: 163 ( Madagascar), 164 (tax.), 184 (cat.).

Lophotilla tandroma (!) KROMBEIN: NONVEILLER & ĆETKOVIĆ 1995: 163 (syn. of Trogaspidia andrei (!)).

D i s t r i b u t i o n and new record Madagascar: Prov. Antsiranana: Antsiranana, Haut- Sambirano, Nosy Be – Prov. Mahajanga: Maromandia – Prov. Antananarivo: near Antananarivo, Lac Itasy – Prov. Toamasina: Ambodirafia, Andasibe (Perinet), Baie d'Antongil – Prov. Toliara: Ampandrandava, Behara, Bekily, Fort Dauphin.

The female of Mutilla venustula de SAUSSURE 1890 has been taken in copula with the male of Trogaspidia andraei OLSOUFIEFF 1938 (letter of Guido Nonveiller to Arkady Lelej, June 10, 1996), hence the new synonymy above.