Leptochilus (Lionotulus) Bluthgen 1938
Creators
- 1. T. I. Vyazemsky Karadag Scientific Station-Nature Reserve of RAS-Branch of A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, Nauki Str. 24, Kurortnoye, 298188 Feodosiya, Russia.
- 2. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 100 - let Vladivostoku Ave. 159, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia.
- 3. Institute of Biology and Biomedicine of the N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Gagarina Ave. 23, building 1, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
- 4. Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Bogishamol Str. 232 b, 100053 Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Description
Leptochilus subgen. Lionotulus Blüthgen, 1938
Lionotulus Blüthgen, 1938a: 276, subgenus of Leptochilus de Saussure, 1853. Type species: Odynerus alpestris de Saussure, 1855 (by original designation).
Neoleptochilus Blüthgen, 1961: 100, subgenus of Leptochilus de Saussure, 1853. Type species: Odynerus medanae Gribodo, 1886 (by original designation), syn. nov.
Sarochilus Gusenleitner, 1970: 57, subgenus of Leptochilus de Saussure, 1853. Type species: Leptochilus alterego Gusenleitner, 1970 (by original designation), syn. nov.
Remarks. Kurzenko (1982) previously stated that the taxonomic independence of the subgenera Neoleptochilus and Sarochilus was poorly proofed.Both sclerotized apical lamella on tergum2 (the diagnostic character of Neoleptochilus) and enlarged labial palpi with long setae (the diagnostic character of Sarochilus) evolved independently in several lineages of the genus Leptochilus as homoplasies. Therefore, the subgenera Neoleptochilus and Sarochilus cannot be distinguished from their most closely related subgenus Lionotulus. Thus, these two subgenera are synonymized here. On the other hand, the subgenus Lionotulus could be further subdivided since some species currently treated within it merit rather their own subgenus, e.g., Leptochilus ambiguus (Kostylev, 1940), Leptochilus argentifrons (Kostylev, 1935), and Leptochilus kostylevi Kurzenko, 1979 (Kurzenko 1982). These three species have the metanotum rounded posteriorly while it is sharply edged posteriorly in other representatives of the genus. It is of note that all Nearctic species of Leptochilus are placed in one subgenus, Zendalia Robertson, 1928 (Krombein 1979; Gusenleitner 1995) despite their high morphological and bionomical variability (Parker 1966).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Eumenidae
- Genus
- Leptochilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bluthgen
- Taxon rank
- subGenus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptochilus (Lionotulus) Bluthgen, 1938 sec. Fateryga, Proshchalykin, Mokrousov & Akhmedov, 2023
References
- Bluthgen, P. (1938 a [" 1937 "]) Systematisches Verzeichnis der Faltenwespen Mitteleuropas, Skandinaviens und Englands. Konowia, 16, 270 - 295.
- Bluthgen, P. (1961) Die Faltenwespen Mitteleuropas (Hymenoptera, Diploptera). Abhandlungen der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Klasse fur Chemie, Geologie und Biologie, 1961 (2), 1 - 252.
- Gusenleitner, J. (1970) Notes on some new Eumenidae from Israel (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Israel Journal of Entomology, 5, 55 - 61.
- Kurzenko, N. V. (1982 [" 1981 "]) [Review of the genera of the vespid wasps of the family Eumenidae (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea) of the fauna of the USSR]. In: Lehr, P. A. (Ed.), [Hymenoptera of the Far East]. Far Eastern Center of the Academy of Sciences of USSR Press, Vladivostok, pp. 81 - 112. [in Russian]
- Krombein, K. V. (1979) Superfamily Vespoidea. In: Krombein, K. V., Hurd, P. D., Smith, D. R. & Burks, B. D. (Eds.), Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Vol. 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, pp. 1469 - 1522.
- Gusenleitner, J. (1995) Bemerkungen uber die Gattung Leptochilus Saussure 1852 und Beschreibung neuer Arten dieser Gattung (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea, Eumenidae). Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 27 (1), 169 - 181.
- Parker, F. D. (1966) A revision of the North American species in the genus Leptochilus (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae). Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America, 5, 151 - 229.