Gorytes quinquecinctus (FABRICIUS 1793)

Tomarchio, S. & G. F, 2006, New or little known Sphecidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) from Sicily (Italy), Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1), pp. 953-960 : 955

Gorytes quinquecinctus (FABRICIUS 1793)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Mount Etna , Tremestieri Etneo, 350 m (Catania), 19. V.1993, 1 (G.F. Turrisi leg.) ; 16.V.1994, 1 (G.F. Turrisi leg.); Mount Etna , slopes of Mount San Leo , 1000 m (Belpasso, Catania), 4. VI.1992, 1 (G.F. Turrisi leg.) ; 24.VI.1992, 1, 3 (G.F. Turrisi leg.); 7- 9.VII.1992, 2 (G.F. Turrisi leg.); 2.VI.1993, 7 (G.F. Turrisi leg.); 26.VI.1999, 1 (G.F. Turrisi leg.).

R e m a r k s: First record for Sicily! Widespread in Europe, Turkey, and Kazakhstan, its presence in N-Africa is not confirmed ( BITSCH et al. 1997). It is recorded from the whole peninsular Italy, as south as Calabria. The specimens from Mount San Leo were collected on flowers of several Apiaceae : Ferula communis L., Thapsia garganica L., and Opopanax chironium L. All the male specimens examined have clypeus and pronotal lobes extensively yellow, as females.