Alysson spinosus (Panzer 1801)

Nemkov, Pavel G., 2014, The digger wasps of the genus Alysson Panzer (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Bembicinae) of Russia and adjacent territories, with a key to species and new synonymies, Zootaxa 3838 (3), pp. 276-286 : 282-283

Alysson spinosus (Panzer 1801)

Sphex bimaculatus Panzer 1798: 4 , ♀. Holotype or syntypes: ♀, Germany, Nürnberg (depository unknown), junior primary homonym of Sphex bimaculatus Fueßlin, 1775 (now in Scoliidae ).

Sphex fuscatus Fabricius (misidentification): Panzer 1798: 3.

Pompilus spinosus Panzer 1801b: 17 , ♀. Holotype or syntypes: ♀, Germany: no specific locality (depository unknown). Synonymized with Alyson bimaculatus ( Panzer 1798) by Jurine 1807: 196.

Alysson katkovi Kokujev 1906: 214 , ♀. Holotype: ♀, Ukraine, Vinnitskaya Oblast, near Olgopol (ZIN), examined. New synonymy.

Alysson bimaculatus: Eversmann 1849: 387 ; Assmuss 1859: 611; Becker 1880: 150; Bohart & Menke 1976: 458; Kolesnikov 1977: 318.

Alysson fuscatus: Handlirsch 1888: 246, 1895: 831 ; de Dalla Torre 1897: 563; Kokujev 1906: 216; Birula 1912: 540, 1914: 386; Bischoff 1925: 300; Romanova 1969: 134.

Alysson spinosus: Bohart & Menke 1976: 458 ; Pulawski 1978: 212, 213; Wu & Zhou 1987: 215; Pankevich et al. 1989: 95; Kuznetzova 1990: 20; Blagoveshchenskaya 1994: 91; Gorobchishin 1995: 18; Krasnobayev et al. 1995: 138; Gorobchishin 1996:53; Minoranskiy & Shkuratov 1996: 81; Voblenko et al. 1996: 15; Wu & Zhou 1996: 136; Kazenas 2001: 43, 2002: 113; Shlyakhtenok & Skibinska 2002: 34; Gorobchishin 2006: 135; Hua 2006: 277; Kazenas 2008: 104; Shorenko & Konovalov 2010: 13; Mokrousov, Berezin & Egorov 2011: 66; Nemkov 2012a: 119; Prisniy 2012: 50.

Alysson katkovi: Bohart & Menke 1976: 458 ; Pulawski 1978: 212.

Material examined. Holotype of Alysson katkovi Kokujev—♀, Ukraine: Nikolaevskaya Oblast, near Olgopol, 4–8.IX 1898 (Katkov) ( ZIN). Ukraine: 7♀, 5♂, Kharkovskaya Oblast, Kuryazh, 1, 26.VI, 6.VII 1884, 19.VI, 5.VII 1885, 25–27.VI 1987, 12, 21.VIII 1889 (Yaroshevski) ( ZIN); 1♀, 1♂, Kievskaya Oblast, Kiev, 8.VIII 1918 (Dobrzhanski) ( ZIN); 1♀, Kievskaya Oblast, Lukyanovka, 14.VIII 1918 (Aleksandrovski) ( ZIN); 2♀, Poltavskaya Oblast, Poltava, 8.VIII 1926 (Lukyanovich) ( ZIN). Russia: 1♀, Leningradskaya Oblast, St. Petersburg, Moskovskoe Shosse, 29.V 1863 (A. Morawitz) ( ZIN); 1♂, Pskovskaya Oblast, Glebova Gorka, VII 1861 (A. Morawitz) ( ZIN); 1♀, Yaroslavskaya Oblast, Yaroslavl, 5.VII (Kokujev) ( ZIN); 1♀, 1♂, Kostromskaya Oblast, Kostroma, 25.VII 1928, 11.VII 1929 (Gussakovskij) ( ZIN); 2♀, 3♂, Kostromskaya Oblast, Vasilevskoe, 21.VII 1933 (Gussakovskij) ( ZIN); 3♀, Kostromskaya Oblast, Baidarki, 26.VII 1933 (Gussakovskij) ( ZIN); 1♂, Kurskaya Oblast, Blagodatnoe, 22.VI 1909 (Malyshev) ( ZIN); 3♀, 1♂, Kurskaya Oblast, Borisovka, 10, 11.VII 1916 (Malyshev) ( ZIN); 3♀, Kurskaya Oblast, Borisovka, 15, 16.VIII 1926 (Goltsgauer) ( ZIN); 1♂, Kurskaya Oblast, Khotmyzhskie Peski, 6.VI 1929 (Pesotskaya) ( ZIN); 1♀, Kurskaya Oblast, Krasnyi Kutok, 22.VII 1929 (Ahrens) ( ZIN); 2♀, 2♂, Volgogradskaya Oblast, Volgograd, 1867, 1868 (Becker) ( ZIN); 1♀, Krasnodarskii Krai, Krasnaya Polyana, 14.VII 1984 (Shalepo) ( ZIN); 1♀, Stavropolskii Krai, Stavropol, 21.VII 1985 (Nemkov); 1♂, Ulyanovskaya Oblast, Karsun, 21.VII 1864 (Chekanovski) ( ZIN); 1♀, 1♂, Tatarstan, Kazan, 30.VII (coll. Eversmann) ( ZIN). Georgia: 1♀, Kakheti, Lagodekhi (Mlokosevich) ( ZIN). Kazakhstan: 1♂, Zapadno- Kazakhstanskaya Oblast, Yanvartsevo, 11.VI 1950 (Rudolf) ( ZIN).

Distribution. Great Britain, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Italy (including Sicilia), Denmark, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Greece, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, Russia (Pskovskaya Oblast, Leningradskaya Oblast, Yaroslavskaya Oblast, Kostromskaya Oblast, Moskovskaya Oblast, Chuvashiya, Bryanskaya Oblast, Kurskaya Oblast, Belgorodskaya Oblast, Voronezhskaya Oblast, Volgogradskaya Oblast, Rostovskaya Oblast, Krasnodarskii Krai, Stavropolskii Krai, North Caucasus, Ulyanovskaya Oblast, Tatarstan), Georgia, Kazakhstan.

Justification of New Synonymy. The examination of the holotype of A. katkovi shows that actually it is a small (length 5 mm instead of 6.5–7.5 mm usually) specimen of A. spinosus . I regard it as a junior subjective synonym of Alysson spinosus (Panzer) . Pulawski (1978) also supposed such synonymy.