Pristaulacus gloriator (Fabricius, 1804)

Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri & Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio, 2018, Taxonomic and faunistic study of Aulacidae (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea) from Iran, with illustrated key to species, Zoosystematics and Evolution 94 (1), pp. 95-108 : 100

Pristaulacus gloriator (Fabricius, 1804)

Bassus gloriator Fabricius, 1804: 99, Holotype ♀. - Germany, Habitat in Germ. Dom. Smidt (ZMUC).

Distribution.

Albania, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia (European and central areas), Slovakia, Turkey, former Yugoslavia ( Turrisi 2007, 2013a, Huflejt and Wiśniowski 2012).

Distribution in Iran.

Guilan province ( Madl 1990: 114-115, MNHN; Turrisi 2007).

Diagnosis.

P. gloriator is a medium to moderately large-sized species with a body length of 10.2-15.0 mm (excluding ovipositor), fore wing length 8.2-11.8 mm. It can be easily identified by the shape of the head with a narrow cerciniform occipital carina (width 0.2 × OD), a rugulose-carinulate frons, latero-ventral margin of pronotum rounded without tooth-like processes, four tooth-like processes on the inner margin of tarsal claw, and light yellow tarsi.

Hosts.

This species was reared from Paraclytus reitteri (Ganglbauer, 1881) ( Coleoptera , Cerambycidae ) feeding on alder, Alnus sp. The reared beetle is polyphagous in deciduous trees i.e. Acer , Alnus , Carpinus and Quercus ( Miroshnikov 2014).

Remarks.

This species was previously recorded as P. holzschuhi Madl, 1990 from Bandar-e Pahlavi (now called: Bandar-e Anzali - Anzali Port), Assalem, Guilan, Iran ( Madl 1990), and is considered as a synonym of P. gloriator ( Turrisi 2007) (type material examined and deposited in MNHN).