Katamenes tauricus (de Saussure, 1855)

Fateryga, Alexander V., Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., Kochetkov, Denis N. & Buyanjargal, Batchuluun, 2020, New records of eumenine wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from Russia, with description of a new species of Stenodynerus de Saussure, 1863, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 79, pp. 89-109 : 89

Katamenes tauricus (de Saussure, 1855)

Material examined.

Russia: Krasnoyarsk Terr., Minusinsk Distr., 10 km NW Minusinsk, Bystraya Riv. vall., 53°44.06'N, 91°34.12'E, 9.VII.2014, (1 ♀), leg. AL, MP, VL [CAFK] .

Distribution.

Russia: European part (Crimea), Western Siberia (Altai), Eastern Siberia (Tyva Rep., *Krasnoyarsk Terr., Irkutsk Prov., Buryatia), Far East (Amurskaya Prov.). - Iran, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, India.

Remarks.

This species is problematic and requires a revision due to its actual absence from the type locality (Crimea). The name K. tauricus could be a synonym or a subspecies of K. dimidiatus ( Brullé, 1832), while the valid name for the species mentioned here could be in that case K. latipes (Sickmann, 1894) ( Fateryga 2018).