Pseudotiphia putoni ( TOURNIER 1889) Boni & O, 2010

Boni, M. & O, Tiphia, 2010, A review of the genus Pseudotiphia ASHMEAD 1903 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2), pp. 1183-1236 : 1210-1211

Pseudotiphia putoni ( TOURNIER 1889) comb.nov.

Tiphia Putoni TOURNIER 1889: 31-32 – Lectotypus here designated in order to ensure the name’ proper and consistent use: Algeria = /Bone 63/ /?/ / Tiphia putoni Tourn / (autographic) /Museum Paris Algerie Coll. O. Sichel 1867/ /Museum Paris EY0000000557/, MHNP

Tiphia putoni: GUIGLIA (1956: 94)

Tiphia putoni: ARBOUW (1984: 119)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Algeria = (3) /Bone 63/ /Museum Paris Algerie Coll. O. Sichel 1867/ /Museum Paris EY0000000558-60/, MHNP; (3) /Bone/ /Museum Paris Algerie Coll. O. Sichel 1867/ /Museum Paris EY0000000561-63/, MHNP; (1) / Medéa / / Museum Paris Algerie Coll. H. Lucas 78-49/ / Museum Paris EY0000000554/, MHNP; (1) / Alger / / Museum Paris Algerie Coll. J. Pérez 1915/ (blue)/ / Tiphia brevipennis Lucas / / Tiphia putoni Tourn. det. Dott. D. Guiglia/ / Tiphia putoni Tourn. / /Museum Paris EY0000000555/, MHNP; (1) /Bone Janv SG (???)/ (rounded) / brevipennis Luc 5 mag. (??)/ //Museum Paris Algerie Coll. O. Sichel 1867/ /Museum Paris EY0000000556/, MHNP;

: Algeria = (1) / Algerie / /Museum Paris Coll. J. De Gaulle1919 / / Museum Paris EY0000000565/, MHNP; (1) / G Constantine / / Algerie / / Berland videt 1923 /, MHNP.

Female (Lectotype). Figs 64-67

Male. Figs 68-77 . Described for the first time. Size: body length = 15 mm.

Coloration like Ps. villosa . Stouter habitus with ratio LAMS / LAC about 1.27. L / LA of 2 nd to 9 th flagellomerus about 1. N 1 disk more tightened anteriorly with a bigger ratio LA/A and without a large impunctate apical stripe. Omaulus absent, only a small trace on upper corner. es 2 strongly shagreened. Areola with weak lateral ridges and broad wearing out posteriorly median ridge. Posterior edge of horizontal P bordered by a strong lamellar ridge on the sides and absent medially so that areola is open apically. No median vertical ridge on posterior area of P. Sensorial areas of mid and hind tibiae very large. Gradulus on 1 st tergum complete. Gradulus on 2 nd tergum broken at the middle; both of them very low. Gradulus on 2 nd sternum undetectable, with traces only laterally. Large tuberculum on 5 th sternum, with densely p inner surface without any mR.

p of head and most of mesosoma with the same arrangement as in Ps. villosa , but they are smaller and less impressed. The p on metameri are smaller, less impressed and very sparser too, but on apical 1 st tergum where they are densely packed in a transversal belt. Horizontal P is evenly sculptured almost throughout without strong ridges like in Ps. villosa The other specimen does not show significant differences and is a little bigger (16 mm).

Note. The males here described have been ascribed to Ps. putoni instead of Ps lethierryi on the base of identity of the labels with female specimens and on the similar weak and sparse p on metameri. Ratio L / LA of 1 st to 5 th flagellomerus is about 1.

Figures

Figs 64-67. Pseudotiphia putoni (Lectotypus) – (64) palpi; (65) labrum, frontal aspect; (66) fore wing; (67) hind wing.

Figs 68-77. Pseudotiphia putoni – (68) head, frontal aspect; head, frontal aspect; (69) FoO, ventral aspect; (70) Pam; (71) Pal; (72) labrum, frontal aspect; (73) fore wing; (74) mid tibia, inner (posterior) aspect; (75) hind tibia, inner (posterior) aspect; (76) tuberculum on 5th sternum, lateral aspect; (77) gonosquama, inner lateral aspect.