Philoctetes horvathi ( Mocsáry, 1889 ), Mocsary, 1889

Rosa, Paolo, Wei, Na-Sen, Notton, David & Xu, Zai-Fu, 2015, The genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879 from China, with description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), Zootaxa 4040 (4), pp. 433-444 : 436

Philoctetes horvathi ( Mocsáry, 1889)

Ellampus wesmaeli Mocsáry, 1882: 27 . Lectotype ♀ (designated by Móczár 1964: 434), Hungary (HNHM) (examined), nom. praeocc., nec Chevrier, 1862.

Ellampus horváthi (!) Mocsáry, 1889: 82. Replacement name for Ellampus wesmaeli Mocsáry, 1882 .

Ellampus horvathii (!): Dalla Torre 1892: 13.

Omalus (Omalus) horvathi: Linsenmaier 1959: 15 , 19; Linsenmaier 1997: 249.

Omalus horváthi (!): Móczár 1964: 434 (lectotype designation).

Philoctetes horvathi: Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 256 ; Ha et al. 2008: 77; Rosa et al. 2013: 13; Rosa et al. 2014: 32 .

Material examined. HUNGARY: ♀: Deliblat 5.VII. / ♀ / Lectotypus ♀ Ellampus horvathi Mocsáry / id nr. 134866 HNHM Hym. coll. CHINA: 1♀, Nan-Chan le Kan Tchegu à Lan Tcheou [=Lanzhou], 2000 m to 4000 m, VII.1908, Dr. Vaillant 1909 ( NMLS).

Diagnosis. Philoctetes horvathi ( Mocsáry, 1889) is similar to P. mongolicus (du Buysson, 1901) and P. deauratus ( Mocsáry, 1914) for general habitus ( Fig. 1 A). However, it can be easily separated from P. mongolicus by the following characteristics: metanotum conical to slightly projected backward (with large and flat medial projection with apex U-shaped in P. mongolicus ); males with metanotum conical not projected backward ( Fig. 1 D); apex of T3 with shallow median notch ( Fig. 1 F) (deep in P. mongolicus ); and body with uniform colouration, without black areas ( Figs 1 A, 1C) (with large black areas on mesosoma and metasoma in P. mongolicus ). It can be separated from P. deauratus by metanotum slightly projected backward and almost as long as the mesoscutellum dorso-medially (not projected and shorter in P. d e au r a t u s); tegula brown without metallic reflection (with red metallic reflection in P. deauratus ); T2 densely punctuate dorsally (with sparse punctuation in P. deauratus ); body colouration metallic red-purple (shining golden-red with greenish reflections on pronotum and mesonotum in P. horvathi ).

Distribution. China (Gansu). Transpalearctic, from Europe and North Africa to Korea ( Kimsey & Bohart 1991; Linsenmaier 1997).

Remarks. Pictures of the type are published in Rosa et al. (2014: Plate 23).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Philoctetes deauratus (Mocsáry), ♀, lectotype. A. Habitus, dorsal view; B. Habitus, lateral view; C. Apex of T 3, posterior view.