Prionyx macula ( Fabricius 1804 )

Danilov, Yuriy N., 2012, The digger wasps of the genus Prionyx Vander Linden (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) of Russia and Central Asia, with a key to species, new synonymies, and lectotype designations, Zootaxa 3526, pp. 59-71 : 63-64

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.282745

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6181645

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scientific name

Prionyx macula ( Fabricius 1804 )
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Prionyx macula ( Fabricius 1804) View in CoL

(Fig. 7)

Pepsis macula Fabricius 1804: 210 . Holotype: 3, Saudi Arabia: no specific locality (MNHN, possibly lost). Sphex lugens Kohl 1889: 25 . Syntypes: Ƥ, 3, Armenia: Arax River Valley: no specific locality (NHMW). Synonymized with Sphex macula by W. Schulz 1911: 165.

Sphex eatoni E. Saunders 1910: 518 . Syntypes: Ƥ, 3, Algeria: Biskra (OXUM). Synonymized with Sphex macula by de Beaumont 1962: 221.

Prionyx macula: Bohart & Menke 1976: 133 View in CoL ; Kazenas 1998: 114; 2002: 29; Pulawski 2012: 16.

Material examined: 17 Ƥ, 17 3 from Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. Distribution: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Kenya.

Prionyx melanotus ( F. Morawitz 1890) View in CoL (Figs 5, 18)

Sphex melanotus F. Morawitz 1890: 575 . Lectotype, designated here: Ƥ, Transcaspia (most likely Turkmenistan): no specific locality (ZIN), examined.

Prionyx melanotus: Myartseva 1972: 84 View in CoL ; Bohart &, Menke 1976: 133; Pulawski 2012: 16.

Material examined: 45 Ƥ, 37 3 from Turkmenistan.

Distribution: Turkmenistan.

Remark. The lectotype is a specimen originally in Ferdinand F. Morawitz collection, donated to him by General Alexander V. Komarov.

de Beaumont, J. (1962) Spheciden aus Zentral-Arabien der Ausbeute Dr. Diehl (Hym.). Beitrage zur Naturkundlichen Forschung in Sudwestdeutschland, 21, 221 - 224.

Bohart, R. M. & Menke, A. S. (1976) Sphecid wasps of the World. A generic revision. Berkeley: Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 696 pp.

Fabricius, J. Ch. (1804) Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Carolum Reichard, Brunsvigae, 15 - 440.

Kazenas, V. L. (1998) Fauna Kazakhstana. T. 9. Pereponchatokrylyie (Hymenoptera). Royushchiye osy (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) Kazakhstana. Vypusk 1. Obshchaya kharakteristika semeystva. Podsemeystva Ampulicinae, Sphecinae. Ministerstvo Nauki - Akademiya Nauki Respubliki Kazakhstan. Institut Zoologii i Genofonda Zhivotnykh, Almaty, 284 pp. (In Russian).

Kohl, F. F. (1889) Bemerkungen zu Edm. Andre's Species des Hymenopteres, T. III (Les Sphegiens). Mit Beschreibung einiger neuen Arten. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-koniglichen Zoologisch Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 39, 9 - 30.

Morawitz, F. (1890) Hymenoptera Fossoria transcaspica nova. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 24, 570 - 645.

Myartseva, S. N. (1972) Fauna sfetsid yuzhnoy Turkmenii. In: Tokgayev T. and Myartseva S. N. (Eds.), Nasekomyie yuzhnoy Turkmenii. Ylym, Askhabad, pp. 75 - 100. (In Russian).

Pulawski, W. J. (2012) Catalog of Sphecidae. California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Available from http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / entomology / Entomology _ Resources / Hymenoptera / sphecidae / Genera _ and _ species _ PDF / Prionyx. pdf (accessed 1 September 2012).

Saunders, E. (1910) Hymenoptera Aculeata collected in Algeria by the Rev. Alfred Edwin Eaton, M. A., F. E. S., and the Rev. Francis David Morice, M. A., F. E. S. Part IV. Descriptions of new Sphegidae. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 517 - 531.

Schulz, W. (1911) Zweihundert alte Hymenopteren. Zoologische Annalen, 4, 1 - 220.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Sphecidae

Genus

Prionyx