Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov, 2002

Lelej, Arkady S., 2024, Revision of the Palaearctic genus Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov, 2002 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), Zootaxa 5529 (1), pp. 52-72 : 53-54

Genus Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov, 2002

Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov, 2002: 94 , ♂, ♀; Lelej 2002: 63; Lelej & Osten 2004: 257; Pagliano & Strumia 2007: 83; Lelej & Brothers 2008: 56, ♂, ♀; Lelej & Yildirim 2009: 17 ; Muskovits & György 2011: 37, 106; Pagliano et al. 2020: 187; Lelej & Williams 2023: 127 , ♂, ♀.

Smicromyrme (Nemka) : Lelej 1985: 240, ♂, part.

Smicromyrme (Eremotilla) : Lelej 1985: 223, ♀, part.

Type species. Mutilla elongata Radoszkowski, 1885 , ♂, by original designation.

Diagnosis. MALE. Mandible usually tridentate with large subventral tooth. Volsella with long, often curved inside cuspis, basivolsella with large, upwardly curved outside lobe. Volsella apically and basivolsella with long suberect setae. Clypeus basally with longitudinal median carina-like elevation, flattened anterad and widened triangularly forming a plate with indistinct margin. Mesopleuron ventrally without precoxal tooth (well developed in Nemka ). Metasomal pale bands weaker than in Nemka . FEMALE. Pygidial plate triangularly elongated, basally weakly curved and widened, lateral carina weakly widened apically; densely striate longitudinally, striae slightly divergent from median line. Clypeus basally with median broad tubercle, dorsoventrally compressed and curved upward. Scutellar scale broad with prescutellar transverse carina. T1 with apical fringe of black setae. T2 basally with large medial spot of pale setae, with or without lateral spot of pale setae and apically with band of such setae medially widened triangularly or simply rounded. T3 with band of pale setae, T4 with lateral spot.

Sex association. The female of the type species was associated and identified (as Smicromyrme ambiguus Skorikov, 1935 ) by Ovtchinnikov 2002: 95.

Species included. The genus currently includes ten valid species: Skorikovia anatolica Lelej in Lelej & Yildirim, 2009, ♂ ( Turkey); S. elongata ( Radoszkowski, 1885) , ♂, ♀ ( Russia: Stavropol Krai; Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran); S. maxim sp. nov., ♂, ♀ ( Russia: Astrakhan Region, Kalmykia; Azerbaijan, North Iran, South-West Pakistan); S. bactriana sp. nov., ♂ ( Afghanistan, Tajikistan), S. pallipes ( Lelej, 1985) , ♂ ( Iran); S. radoszkovskii ( Skorikov, 1935) , ♂, ♀ ( Russia: Dagestan; Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey); S. sanguinicollis ( Klug, 1829) , ♂ ( Egypt, Libya), S. serta ( Radoszkowski, 1885) , comb. nov., ♀ ( Russia: South Ural); S. transcaucasica ( Lelej, 1985) , ♂ ( Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey); S. trinotata (Costa, 1858) , comb. nov., ♂, ♀ (= Mutilla triangularis Radoszkowski, 1865 , ♀, syn. nov., = Smicromyrme pliginskiji Lelej, 1984 , ♂, syn. nov.) ( Russia: Crimea, Dagestan, South and East of European part, South Ural; Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Slovakia).

Distribution. All species are distributed in the Palaearctic Region.