Stylops claytoniae Pierce, 1909

Straka, Jakub, Jůzová, Kateřina & Nakase, Yuta, 2015, Nomenclature and taxonomy of the genus Stylops (Strepsiptera): an annotated preliminary world checklist, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (1), pp. 305-332 : 323-324

Stylops claytoniae Pierce, 1909

Stylops claytoniae Pierce, 1909: 99 , F. Type locality: USA, Georgia, Thomasville.

= Stylops imitatrix Pierce, 1909: 104 , F. Type locality: USA, Texas, Round Mountain. Synonymized with S. claytoniae by PIERCE (1911: 494).

= Stylops vierecki Pierce, 1909: 110 , F. Type locality: USA, Texas, Fedor. Synonymized with S. claytoniae by PIERCE (1911: 494).

Host. Andrena (Scrapteropsis) imitatrix Cresson, 1872 ( PIERCE 1909).

DNA barcode sequences. KF803471 , KF803505 .

Notes. The names presented as synonyms were proposed for the hosts A. claytoniae Robertson, 1891 , A. imitatrix and A. profunda Viereck, 1917 by PIERCE (1909). Andrena claytoniae and A. profunda are, however, junior synonyms of A. imitatrix . PIERCE (1911, 1919) later recognised this relationship between the host names and downgraded the name S. vierecki as a variety and later both S. imitatrix and S. vierecki as subspecies of S. claytoniae . The host bee name A. profunda was presented before the name description ( PIERCE 1909), and thus the host name was published as a nomen nudum.

Distances between DNA barcode sequences of Stylops from the subgenus Scrapteropsis and the other host subgenera are 4–20 % ( JŮZOVÁ et al. 2015).