The pollen wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) in Central Asia. Contribution I. Genera Masaris Fabricius, 1793 and Quartinia André, 1884 Author Fateryga, Alexander V. text Zootaxa 2025 2025-07-03 5659 2 151 178 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5659.2.1 journal article 310843 10.11646/zootaxa.5659.2.1 d6f78c32-2820-4b4c-8ac6-5c38739ab5d0 1175-5326 15822635 6AB94AEF-3684-432C-8E13-2AF72EE23D4B Quartinia popovi Richards, 1962 ( Figs 5 , 11F ) Quartinia popovi “Kost. in litt.” Gussakovskij, 1935: 467 , fig. 23, nom. nud. Quartinia popovi “Gussakovskiǐ ” Richards, 1962: 143 , ♀ (type locality: “District of Kondara” [ Tajikistan ]), holotype , ♀ , ZMMU (examined). Description of male (hitherto unknown). Body length (from head to apical margin of tergum II) 3 mm (total body length about 4 mm ); forewing length 2.5 mm. Head in frontal view about 1.25× as wide as long (from top of median ocellus to apical margin of clypeus). Clypeus strongly evenly convex, about 1.3× as wide as long; its apical emargination rather shallow, about 0.25× as deep as wide, taking about 0.55 of clypeal width, apical teeth rounded and lamellate. Distance between lateral ocellus and occiput about 0.9× as distance between lateral ocelli and about 0.7× as distance between lateral ocellus and compound eye. Antenna with articles 8–12 forming club about 2.5× as long as wide in dorsal view. Width of gena in front of ocular sinus about 0.7× as width of compound eye at ocular sinus. Occipital carina complete, forming indistinct obtuse angle at lower part of gena. Pronotum with anterior side nearly vertical, roundly angled to dorsal surface. Antero-lateral sides of pronotum broadly rounded in dorsal view; in lateral view, pronotal carina indistinct. Scutellum separated from mesoscutum by transverse suture, strongly and evenly convex, broadly rounded posteriorly. Tegula with strongly produced posterior end and nearly straight inner margin. Epipleural and episternal sulci distinct. Ventral mesepisternum evenly rounded ventrally. Epicnemial carina indistinct. Dorsal carina of propodeum complete, rounded dorso-laterally; lateral carina of propodeum complete, ventro-laterally also produced as nearly right rounded angle. Terga I–VI and sterna II–VI with transculent apical lamella. Tergum VII apically with two rounded lobes and moderately deep emargination between them. Sternum VII+VIII rather flat, apically trilobed, central lobe broader and longer than lateral ones. Genitalia as in Fig. 11F . Foretibia not modified, just slightly thickened. Clypeus dull, with shallow and very dense indistinct punctures. Frons and vertex very densely punctate with rather fine but distinct punctures, interspaces less than puncture diameter, with strong reticulate microsculpture. Gena with similar but somewhat coarser and sparser punctures than those on frons and vertex. Pronotum and anterior part of scutum punctate coarser than frons and vertex, interspaces less than puncture diameter, moderately dull, with reticulate microsculpture. Punctures and interspaces becoming even larger on posterior part of scutum and scutellum where interspaces exceeding puncture diameter, moderately dull, with distinct reticulate microsculpture. Tegula with weak, indistinct microsculpture and few very fine indistinct punctures on posterior half. Dorsal and ventral mesepisterna and mesepimeron sculptured distinctly denser and coarser than pronotum and anterior part of scutum, interspaces duller and much less than puncture diameter. Posterior surface of metanotum dull, mostly with microsculpture. Metapleuron and lateral surface of propodeum rather dull, with shagreened sculpture. Dorso-lateral surface of propodeum with fine cell-like irregular sculpture. Posterior surface of propodeum moderately dull, with shallow dense punctures, interspaces less than puncture diameter. Metasomal terga dull, mostly with reticulate microsculpture, fine dense and shallow punctures visible mostly on terga I and II. Metasomal sterna moderately shining, with fine reticulate microsculpture, only sternum VII with regular dense shallow punctures and interspaces about as puncture diameter. FIGURE 5. Quartinia popovi Richards, 1962 . A–D , ♂, Kyrgyzstan; E , ♀, Kyrgyzstan. A , habitus in dorsal view; B , habitus in lateral view; C , terga VI–VII in dorsal view; D, E , head in frontal view. Scale bars 0.5 mm. Mandible and labrum covered with thin erect pale setae about as long as diameter of median ocellus. Clypeus, frons, vertex, and pronotum with short pale setae about three times shorter than diameter of median ocellus. Compound eye bare. Scutum, scutellum, and mesopleuron without visible setae. Propodeum, metasoma, and legs from coxae to femora mostly with short appressed setae. Tibia and tarsus of foreleg with short erect stiff setae approximately as long as diameter of median ocellus, those setae on mid and hind legs much shorter. Basal color black to dark brown. Following parts pale yellow: mandible except reddish-brown teeth, labrum, clypeus, antenna except most part of club, anterior band on pronotum, tegula (except small brownish antero-central part), narrow apical band on scutellum, apical bands on terga I–VII, legs from tops of femora. Posterior part of sternum VII reddish-brown. Wings moderately fuscous; veins and pretostigma brown. Material examined. HOLOTYPE : ♀ , labeled “ущ. Кондара [ Kondara Canyon ] / 7-VIII 37 / В. Гуссаковск. [ V. Gussakovskij ] // Quartinia / popovi Kost. ♀ / G Kostylev det. 1938 // МОсКва / ЗООЛОГичесКий / МУЗей МГУ [Moscow, Zoological Museum MSU ] // Holotype ♀ / Quartinia popovi / Richards, 1962 [red label]” [ ZMMU ] . ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: TAJIKISTAN : SE of Kulyab [Kulob], Shuroabid [ Shurobod ], 2150 m , 27.VIII.1933 , 1 ♀ , leg. V. Popov [ ZISP ] ; 35 km N Stalinabad [ Dushanbe ], Kvak Place , 2000 m , 5.VIII.1937 , 9 ♀ , leg. V. Gussakovskij [ ZISP ] ; ibid., 27.VIII.1937 , 6 ♀ , leg. V. Gussakovskij [ ZISP ] ; Kvak , 21.VII.1937 , 2 ♀ , leg. V. Gussakovskij [ ZISP ] ; ibid., 17.VIII.1937 , 9 ♀ , leg. V. Gussakovskij [ ZISP ] ; Gissar-Gebirge , 2000 m , 17–27.VIII.1937 , 1 ♀ [ ZMMU ] ; Kvak Place , 20.VII.1938 , 2 ♀ , leg. V. Gussakovskij [ ZISP ] ; Khorog-Dasht [ Dasht-Khorog ], 3.VIII.1939 , 1 ♀ , leg. A. Saakyan-Baranova [ ZISP ] ; Gafilabad [ Gofilobod ], 2500 m , 12.VIII.1940 , 2 ♀ , leg. V. Gussakovskij [ ZISP ] ; ibid., 14.VIII.1940 , 6 ♀ , leg. V. Gussakovskij [ ZISP ] ; ibid., 23.VIII.1940 , 2 ♀ , leg. V. Gussakovskij [ ZISP ] ; Kok-Kul Place , 3000 m , 20–22.VIII.1940 , 1 ♀ , leg. V. Gussakovskij [ ZISP ] ; Kukhilal , Panj River , 2400 m , 18.VII.1956 , 1 ♀ , leg. V. Tobias [ ZISP ]. UZBEKISTAN : N slopes of Gissar Range , Khan-Takhta Place near Yakkabag , V.1933 , 1 ♀ , leg. Veltishchev [ ZISP ] ; N slope of Gissar Range , Mt. Maydanak , 2800 m , 31.VIII.1933 , 1 ♀ , leg. Veltishchev [ ZISP ]. KYRGYZSTAN : Transalai Mountain Range , Berk-Suu Ravine , 39°29′N , 72°02′E , ~ 2600 m , 19.VII.1998 , 1 ♀ , leg. D. Milko [ CSZT ] ; Transalai Mountain Range, W part, Berksu River gorge, 39°28′N , 72°01′E , 2600 m , 19.VII.1998 , 2 ♂ , leg. I. Makogonova [ CSZT ]. Distribution. Tajikistan , * Uzbekistan , Kyrgyzstan . Trophic relationships. Unknown.