Gasteruption variolosum (Abeille de Perrin, 1879)

van Achterberg, Cornelis & Talebi, Ali Asghar, 2014, Review of Gasteruption Latreille (Hymenoptera, Gasteruptiidae) from Iran and Turkey, with the description of 15 new species, ZooKeys 458, pp. 1-187 : 127-130

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Gasteruptiidae

Gasteruption variolosum (Abeille de Perrin, 1879) Figs 548-562

Faenus variolosus Abeille de Perrin, 1879: 264, 267, 275.

Gasteruption variolosum ; Schletterer 1885: 316, 1889: 408; Dalla Torre 1902: 1075; Kieffer 1912: 250; Hedicke 1939: 26; Ferrière 1946: 236, 238, 247; Madl 1988a: 13, 17, 1990a 130; Wall 1994: 165; Scaramozzino 1995: 3; Pagliano and Scaramozzino 2000: 13, 19, 34.

Gasteruption laeviceps Schletterer, 1885: 281, 1889: 403; Szépligeti 1903: 369; Kieffer 1912: 258; Schmiedeknecht 1930: 379, 381; Ferrière 1946: 247; Hedicke 1939: 15; Wall 1994: 149. Synonymized with Gasteruption variolosum (Abielle de Perrin) by Ferrière (1946).

Gasteruption leviceps Schletterer, 1889: 382, 392, 394, 397. Invalid emendation.

Type material.

Lectotype of Gasteruption variolosum here designated, ♀ (MNHN) from Marseille, "Museum Paris EY 0000003923", "variolosus ab.", "Museum Paris, coll. Abeille de Perrin, 1919", "Monotypus, des. Madl, 1987". Lectotype of Gasteruption laeviceps here designated, ♂ (NMW) "[Greece], Rhodus, Erber".

Additional material.

*Iran (Tehran, Shahriar; near Kasan); *Turkey (Agri, Patnos, 1650 m; Capadocia, Ürgüp; 10 km W of Ürgüp; Burdur, 20 km SW of Burdur, 940 m; 20 km E of Alanya; Kopeksiz, 25 km E of Malatya; Nidge, Camardi; Uzuncaburc, 30 km N of Silifke; Kafr. 10 km SE of Suwayda; 20 km NW of Igdir; Cornelek, 40 km E of Mut; near Agri; Hakkari, Akcali, 35 km S of Hakkari, 1700 m; Gevas, Van Gölü; Sivas, 45 km E of Yarhisar; Burdur, 5 km NE of Yesilova, 1060 m; N of Sivas; Isparta, 8 km NE of Isparta, 1020 m; id., Egirdir Gölu, 5 km N of Akkecili, 920 m; Beysehir; Manisa, 15 km SEE of Salihi, 170 m; Nevsehir, 20 km S of Nevsehir, Kaymakli, 1200 m; Nevsehir, 5 km S of Avanos, Zelve, 1000 m; id., 10 km S of Avanos, Göreme, 1000 m; id., 10 km E of Ürgüp, W of Aksalur, 1350 m; Gümüshane, Gümüshane, 1200 m; Hakkari, Mt. Sat, SW of Yüksekova, Varegös, 1650 m; Inner Anatolia, 5 km W of Koyulhisar).

Diagnosis.

Apex of ovipositor sheath blackish or slightly brownish, if rather pale apically then pale part distinctly shorter than hind basitarsus; ovipositor sheath 1.6-2.0 times as long as hind tibia and at least as long as hind tibia and tarsus combined; occipital carina non-lamelliform, narrow (Figs 548, 553); temple distinctly elongate (Fig. 553), about as long as eye in dorsal view, but sometimes 0.7-0.8 times; apical antennal segment short, about 1.5 times as long as wide and its tip distinctly shiny; eyes at most sparsely setose; face rather wide (Fig. 552); temples strongly narrowed behind eyes in dorsal view (Fig. 553), but less so in male (Fig. 560); head in anterior view less protruding dorsally than in Gasteruption dolichoderum (Fig. 552); vertex distinctly bulging near occipital carina and extremely finely coriaceous (Fig. 548); propleuron 0.8-1.1 times distance from tegulae to anterior border of mesoscutum; genal bridge at most half as long as third antennal segment; pronotum with pair of small and more or less blunt protuberances antero-laterally; antesternal carina narrowly lamelliform (Fig. 549); anterior half of mesoscutum more or less coarsely reticulate-rugose (Fig. 550); incision of hypopygium shallow. Males have fourth antennal segment 1.3-1.5 times as long as third segment and apical antennal segment about 1.5 times as long as wide (Fig. 559).

Distribution.

South Europe, Iran, Turkey. New for the fauna of Iran and Turkey.

Biology.

Unknown. Collected in May-July.