Parnassiana Zeuner 1941

8) Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941 (Figs. 8, 60, 95, 119)

Characters. Micropterous, pronotum rounded, humeral excision absent, hind border of pronotum not exceeding the mesonotum, keel present; pronotum short (ratio length/height of pronotum 3Ƥ: 1.2–1.3). Ƥ subgenital plate with smooth rounded lobes; ovipositor whitish regularly curved, ca. 2.0–2.2 as long as pronotum, thick at the base, not laterally compressed; Ƥ VI–VII th sternites not modified; hind femora very short, hind femora/pronotum length 3: 2.2–2.5, Ƥ: 2.3–2.6; 3 X th tergite broadly depressed in middle and deeply incised, lobes large and long. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is blackish-gray bordered with a white stripe.

Remarks. Well characterized by short hind femora, male X th tergite, and ovipositor not laterally compressed (see below).

Distribution. It covers Balkan peninsula; the species living in Mediterranean France, described as P. vicheti, belongs to another taxon and its affinity to Parnassiana seems only a phenomenon of convergence.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010, modified): 13: 1) chelmos Zeuner, 1941; 2) coracis (Ramme, 1921); 3) dirphys (Willemse, 1980); 4) fusca (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882); 5) gionica La Greca et Messina, 1976; 6) menalon (Willemse, 1975); 7) nigromarginata (Willemse et Willemse, 1987); 8) panaetolikon (Willemse, 1980); 9) parnassica (Ramme, 1926) (type species); 10) parnon (Willemse, 1980); 11) tenuis (Heller, 1988); 12) tymphiensis (Willemse, 1973); 13) tymphrestos Zeuner, 1941.