Celonites cagrii Mauss & Yildirim, 2022

Fateryga, Alexander V., Mauss, Volker, Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. & Maharramov, Mahir M., 2025, Taxonomic review of the pollen wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) from the Caucasus, with the description of two new species, new nest and flower-visiting records, and a key to the species, Zootaxa 5716 (4), pp. 514-540 : 515-516

Celonites cagrii Mauss & Yildirim, 2022

Celonites cagrii Mauss & Yildirim in Mauss et al. 2022a: 115, figs 2, 4f, 5f, 7c, 8c, h, i, 9b, e, g, i, 10f, 11f, 12f, 13f, 14f, ♀ ♂ (type locality: “[ Turkey] TR-Erzurum Şenkaya-Akşar [ 40.648262°N, 42.342351°E] … 1275 m … [ on Heliotropium ellipticum Ledeb. ]”), holotype, ♀, OLML (examined).

Material examined. PARATYPES: ARMENIA: Erevan [ Yerevan], Monti desertici, Aighepat [Aygepat], 40 km SE, 23.VII.1963, 2 ♂ (dbM 5789, 5790), leg. A. Giordani Soika [ MSNVE] .

Distribution. Armenia ( Fig. 11 ); Turkey.

Trophic relationships. In Turkey, females and males of this species were collected at flowers of Heliotropium ellipticum Ledeb. ( Boraginaceae ) ( Mauss et al. 2022a). Probably narrowly oligolectic (sensu Müller & Kuhlmann 2008) on the genus Heliotropium Tourn. ex L.

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FIGURE 11. Distribution of pollen wasps in the Caucasus. A, Celonites cagrii Mauss & Yildirim, 2022; B, C. carpenteri Fateryga & Mauss, sp. nov.; C, C. ivanovi Mauss & Fateryga, 2022; D, C. laetus Panfilov, 1968; E, C. osseus Morawitz, 1888; F, C. tauricus Kostylev, 1935; G, C. tudesculptus Kostylev, 1935; H, Ceramius caucasicus André, 1884; I, Jugurtia eurycara Kostylev, 1935; J, J. irana Kostylev, 1935; K, Quartinia aliyevi Fateryga, Mauss, Proshchalykin & Maharramov, sp. nov.; L, Q. araxana Giordani Soika, 1960.