Ceratina tarsata, Morawitz, 1872

Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2), pp. 907-967 : 934-935

Ceratina tarsata MORAWITZ, 1872

Pithitis tarsata (MORAWITZ, 1872): DALY 1983a: 36 (key), 45 (fig. 35), 50 (fig. 51), 60 (tax., descr. ♂ ♀, Obock).

Pithitis tarsata (MORAWITZ, 1872): DALY 1983b: 500 (key), 503-4 (tax., Djibouti, Obock, Tadjoura).

Ceratina tarsata MORAWITZ, 1872: EARDLEY & URBAN 2010: 383 (cat. Afr. reg.).

Ceratina tarsata MORAWITZ, 1872: RASMUSSEN 2012: 21 (tax., Obock, cat. taxa described by Vachal).

* Ceratina caesia n.sp.: VACHAL 1904: 385 (descr. ♀, Obock).

Ceratina caesia VACHAL, 1903: FRIESE 1905a: 3 (tax., cat. Afr. reg.), 8 (original descr., Obock).

Ceratina caesia VACHAL, 1903: FRIESE 1909a: 191 (cat. Afr. reg.), 195 (original descr., Obock), 465 (cat. Afr. reg.).

Ceratina caesia VACHAL, 1903: COCKERELL 1937: 39 (tax.).

Ceratina caesia VACHAL, 1903: RASMUSSEN 20: 2012 (tax., Obock, cat. taxa described by Vachal).

Pithitis (Pithitis) caesia (VACHAL, 1903): HIRASHIMA 1969: 253 (tax.), 253 (fig. 5: map), 654-55 (tax., Obock), 666 (tax.).

Ceratina caesia VACHAL, 1903: DALY 1973: 387 (tax.).

Ceratina caesia VACHAL, 1903: DALY 1983a: 60 (syn.).

* Ceratina mauritanica LEPELETIER DE SAINT- FARGEAU, 1841: WALKER 1871a: 50 (Tadjoura).

Ceratina mauritanica LEPELETIER DE SAINT- FARGEAU, 1841: INNES BEY 1911: 106 (Tadjoura, cat. Lord Collection).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Djibouti, Obock, Tadjoura.

Ceratina tarsata is known from the Afrotropical ( Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Mali, Senegal, Sudan) and Palaearctic (e.g. Yemen) regions. The material from the Smith Collection

( DALY 1983b: 504) was published by WALKER (1871a) as Ceratina mauritanica . The papers of WALKER (1871a) and INNES BEY (1912) have been overlooked till now. The record from Djibouti ( WALKER 1871a) is not mentioned in DE DALLA TORRE (1896: 196), FRIESE (1905a: 3; 1909a) and EARDLEY & URBAN (2010).