Evania Fabricius, 1775

Belokobylskij, S. A., 2019, Ensign wasps (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea, Evaniidae) in the fauna of Russia, with description of a new Brachygaster Leach species from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Zootaxa 4629 (3), pp. 379-388 : 385-386

Evania Fabricius, 1775 .

Type species: Sphex appendigaster Linnaeus, 1758 .

See Deans (2005: 24) for complete taxonomic information.

This is the type genus of the family with numerous species mainly distributed in tropical areas. The genus need to be revised because some of described species may be synonyms of the cosmopolitan Evania appendigaster or some Evania species will be later transferred into other genera. Parasitoids of cockroach oothecae mainly of the genus Periplaneta Burmeister, 1838 (Blattidae) .

The following six species of this genus are known in the Palaearctic region (predominantly in it south part): Evania appendigaster (Linnaeus, 1758) (nearly cosmopolitan but largely restricted to urban environments, in Europe from Greece to Sweden); E. carinigera Kieffer, 1905 ( Morocco) ; E. cribrata Semenow, 1892 ( Armenia, Azerbai- jan, Georgia, Iran); E. dimidiata Spinola, 1838 ( Azerbaijan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Israel, Libya, Sudan, Syria, * Russia, Turkmenistan); E. hunteri Mani, 1943 ( Afghanistan, Pakistan); E. nigrata Gmelin, 1790 (“Europe”); E. stenochela Kieffer, 1911 ( Pakistan) ( Deans, 2005, 2008).

Number of species: World—about 70, Palaearctic—6, Russia—1. Discovery of cosmopolitan E. appendigaster in the Russian fauna is also very likely.

Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838

( Figs 4 A–G)

See Deans (2005: 35) for complete taxonomic information.

Material examined. RUSSIA. Dagestan Republic: 1 female, Makhachkala, 3. VII.2017 (without collector); 1 female, Kumtorkalinskiy District , Sarykum Barkhan, 43.01˚ N 47.23 ˚ E, 26. VI.2017 (N. Gasanova leg.) .

Distribution. * Russia (Dagestan); Azerbaijan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Israel, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan ( Deans, 2005, 2008; Deans et al., 2012).

Host: Parasitoid of Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758 oothecae ( Blattidae ).

Figures

FIGURE 4. Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 (A–G, female) and Prosevania fuscipes (Illiger, 1807) (H–N, female). A, Habitus, lateral view. B, I, Head, dorsal view. C, K, Head, front view. D, Antenna, lateral view. E, L, Wings. F, M, Mesosoma, dorsal view. G, N, Petiole, dorsal view. H, Habitus, dorsal view.