Ferreola orchesica (Kohl, 1886)

Schmid-Egger, Rnold Christian, 2018, New species of Ferreola L, 1845 and Eoferreola A, 1935 with key to Ferreola species from the Palaearctic region (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 389-412 : 404-406

Ferreola orchesica ( KOHL, 1886), figs 41-44

Pompilus orchesicus KOHL, 1886: 313 (key), 326, male Tanger (Wien).

Pseudoferreola striata RADOSZKOWSKI, 1888: 478, male female, Andalousie (Berlin). Examined, Lectotypus female, designated, new synonym. WOLF & ASSUNÇÃO DINIZ 1970: 21 (Taxonomy).

Records: Spain: 1 female, 5 males "Lusit. Andal." [old handwritten labels, means Lusitanien, Andalousie]. One male with red type label and handwritten label "striata" is designated as Lectotype of Pseudoferreola striata RADOSZKOWSKI, 1888]; 1 female Carboneras 3.x.1981 ( CSE).

Remark: Pompilus orchesicus , described from northern Morokko and Pseudoferreola striata, described from southern Spain are similar in morphology and are therefore conspecific in our opinion. The colour of pronotum is variable, and the species occur in a form with red and with black pronotum. Already Wahis (on www.faunaeuropea.org) mentions only F. orchesica from Spain and therefore treats P. striata a synonymous. However, Pseudoferreola striata was never synonymised formally, what will be done here: It is a new synonym of Ferreola orchesica .

In the Berlin Museum are two males and a female of " Pseudoferreola striata" with old handwritten labels " Andalusien ". One male is labelled with a blue handwritten label " Paraferreola striata RADOSK. type.". We designate this male as lectotype of P. striata, because RADOSZKOWSKI (1888: 478) described male and female and did not mention a type specimen. The female from Berlin collection is not from the type series, because it has a black pronotum, but the type female has a red pronotum from the description. The other male has only unreadable labels and probably also does not belong to the type series.

Diagnosis: The species can be recognized by its large body size (female 17- 20 mm, male 13-18 mm) in combination with a sharp crossing between propodeal dorsum and declivity. The species may be all black or has a red pronotum. It is distribution area occurs also F. algira with pronlonged clypeus and vertex (short in F. orchesica ) and in Spain F. diffinis . The latter is smaller and has a rounded crossing on propodeum. Wings of F. orchesica are dark infumate, malar space, vertex and gena are narrow, and declivity of propodeum is distinctly striate. Inner eye margin with large red band.

Colour variation: The type specimens (P. striata female from Spain in RADOSZKOWSKI, 1888, and P. orchesicus male from Morocco in KOHL, 1886) have each a red pronotum. However, pronotum is all black in four additional examined males from Spain, apart from one male with some red traces on pronotum. One examined female from Spain has pronotum red, the other pronotum black. Also WOLF et al. (1970) mention an all black female from Spain.

Geograf ic distribution: Morocco, southern Spain.

Figures

Figs 37-42: (37) Ferreola haladai, male holotype, head and mesosoma dorsally; (38) Ferreola haladai, male holotype, propodeum, from behind; (39) Ferreola haladai, male holotype, subgenital plate; (40) Ferreola haladai, male holotype, genital; (41) Ferreola orchesica, female; (42) Ferreola orchesica, male; head and mesosoma dorsally.

Figs 43-48: (43) Ferreola orchesica, male; propodeum, from behind; (44) Ferreola orchesica, male; subgenital plate; (45) Ferreola pseudodenticulata, female holotype; (46) Ferreola pseudodenticulata, male paratype; (47) Ferreola pseudodenticulata, female holotype, head and mesosoma dorsally; (48) Ferreola pseudodenticulata, female holotype, face.