Parnopes fischeri, Spinola, 1838

Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2), pp. 907-967 : 916

Parnopes fischeri SPINOLA, 1838

Parnopes fischeri SPINOLA, 1838: KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 585 (world cat.).

Parnopes fischeri SPINOLA, 1838: MADL & ROSA 2012: 108-09 (cat. Afr. reg.).

* Parnopes apicalis n.sp.: WALKER 1871a: 6 (descr., Tadjoura).

Parnopes apicalis WALKER, 1871: MOCSÁRY 1889: 609 (original descr., world cat.).

Parnopes apicalis WALKER, 1871: DE DALLA TORRE 1892: 110 (world cat. ( Djibouti, not Egypt)).

Parnopes apicalis WALKER, 1871: DU BUYSSON 1896 (In: DU BUYSSON 1891 -96): 685 (key, tax., descr. ♂, Tadjoura).

Parnopes apicalis WALKER, 1781: BRAUNS 1901: 291 (? syn.).

Parnopes apicalis WALKER, 1871: BISCHOFF 1913: 32 (world cat. ( Djibouti, not Red Sea)).

Parnopes apicalis WALKER, 1871: KIMSEY 1986: 109 (type design. ( Djibouti, not Egypt)).

Parnopes apicalis WALKER, 1871: KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 585 (syn.).

Parnopes (Parnopes) apicalis WALKER, 1871: LINSENMAIER 1999: 257 (tax.).

* Parnopes viridis (BRULLÉ, 1846): DU BUYSSON 1898b: 545 (tax., Djibouti).

Parnopes viridis (BRULLÉ, 1846): DU BUYSSON 1898c: 272 (cat. Djibouti).

Parnopes viridis (BRULLÉ, 1846): DU BUYSSON 1899: 169 ( Djibouti).

* Parnopes sp.: INNES BEY 1911: 108 (without locality, cat. Lord Collection).

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

Parnopes fischeri is recorded from the Afrotropical ( Djibouti, Namibia, South Africa and Sudan) and Palaearctic regions. The lectotype designation of Parnopes apicalis ( KIMSEY 1986: 109) should be checked, because the type locality Tadjoura is situated in Djibouti and not in Egypt. DU BUYSSON (1896: 686) has seen the type specimen in Cairo, which is missing the head, but the description of the head made by W.F. Kirby is based on a specimen housed in the Natural History Museum in London.