Eucharis (Psilogastrellus) punctata Förster 1859

Gadallah, Neveen S., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Heraty, John M., 2013, A review of the family Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Egypt, Zootaxa 3717 (3), pp. 389-394 : 393

Eucharis (Psilogastrellus) punctata Förster 1859

( Figs. 4 , 11–14 )

Eucharis punctata Förster 1859: 89: 89 –91. Type data: Tyrol Austria. Type depository: syntype ♀, MNHN. Additional citations: Dalla Torre, 1898: 36; Bouček, 1951: 52.

Psilogastrellus punctatus ; Bouček, 1977: 60, 124. Change in combination.

Eucharis (Psilogastrellus) punctata ; Heraty, 2002: 145. Revised combination.

Material examined. Turkey: 1♀, Konya, 8.viii. 1951, leg. Bytinski-Salz, UCRC_ENT 400700 ( TAU).

Hosts. Myrmicinae. Messor sp. (Bouček 1952), Messor barbarous (L.) (Bouček 1956, 1977; Öncüer 1991), M. concolor Santschi (Heraty 2002) . These ant records are likely erroneous because the eucharitids were reared from an ant with a cocoon, which is not present in the Myrmicinae (Lachaud and Pérez-Lachaud, 2012) .

Distribution. Algeria, Austria (Förster 1859), Bulgaria (Heraty 2002), Egypt [Helwan, southern suburb of Cairo, 29˚51?N, 31˚20?E, Heraty 2002], Tunisia (Bouček 1956), Turkey (Bouček 1951, 1956), Croatia, Yugoslavia (Bouček 1977), Macedonia (Bouček 1956, 1977).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 7. 1 – 3, 5, Eucharis (Eucharisca) bytinskisalzi: 1, ♀ antenna; 2, ♂ antenna (allotype); 3 face of ♀ (holotype). 4, E. (Psilogastrellus) punctatus (habitus). 6 and 7, E. (P.) cuprea: 6, habitus (lectotype); 7, dorsal aspect (lectotype).

FIGURES 8 – 14. 8 – 10, Eucharis (Eucharisca) bytinskisalzi: 8, dorsal aspect of body (holotype); 9, label (holotype); 10, label of ♂ (allotype). 11 – 14, E. (Psilogastrellus) punctata: 11, dorsal aspect; 12, face; 13, posterior aspect of body; 14, label.