Elampus Spinola, 1806

Paukkunen, Juho, Berg, Alexander, Soon, Villu, Odegaard, Frode & Rosa, Paolo, 2015, An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species, ZooKeys 548, pp. 1-116 : 19-20

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Genus Elampus Spinola, 1806 Figs 37, 38-46

Elampus Spinola, 1806: 10.

Ellampus Agassiz, 1846: 136.

Notozus Förster, 1853: 351.

Note.

This genus has been treated as a subgenus of Omalus by some authors (e.g. Linsenmaier 1959, 1997). It is well characterised by the shape of the metascutellum, which has a large tongue-like projection dorsally (Fig. 38). The posterior margin of T3 is usually extended into a horseshoe-shaped or falcate rim forming truncation (Figs 39-40, 44-46). The female has a row of dense and erect setae along the genal margin (Fig. 41). These setae are replaced by long irregularly placed bristles in the male. The hosts are ground-nesting crabronid wasps, such as Mimesa Shuckard and Mimumesa Malloch ( Kimsey and Bohart 1991). The genus is distributed in the Palearctic Region (more than 40 species), North America (8 species), Africa (7 species) and South America (3 species) ( Kimsey and Bohart 1991, Linsenmaier 1999, Madl and Rosa 2012). A total of 12 species have been found in Europe ( Rosa and Soon 2012), and three of these occur in the Nordic and Baltic countries ( Paukkunen et al. 2014).

Key to Elampus species of the Nordic and Baltic countries