Apolysis volkovitshi Gibbs 2023, comb. nov.

Apolysis volkovitshi (Zaitzev, 1996) comb. nov.

Parageron volkovitshi Zaitzev, 1996: 693.

Type material (not examined)

Holotype

ISRAEL • ♀; “loc. No. 31, Upper Galilee, N. Hermon, 10 km E of Qiryat Shemona 2-3 May 1994 1 ♀ Leg. M.G. Volkovitsh and M.Yu. Dolgovskaya (Zaitzev 1996)”; ZIN.

ISRAEL • 1 ♀; “Ben Shemen, 19 March 2002, L. Friedman ”; TAU • 1 ♀; “Gilboa’, HarShaul, 4 April 2007, L. Friedman ”; TAU.

GREECE • 4 ♀♀; “Meteora, 26 May [19]75, D.J. Greathead ”; NHMUK.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to see the holotype in St Petersburg (ZIN), nor obtain any photographs. However, in his type description of the single female available Zaitzev (1996: 1080, fig. 21) illustrated the postpedicel quite clearly showing the arista in the subapical sulcus. This is after Evenhuis & Greathead (1990) had redefined the Usiinae so it should have been described in Apolysis.

Non-type material from Israel agrees closely with the type description and one of these specimens is from Lower Galilee, only about 100 km from the type locality of A. volkovitshi. Four female specimens from Greece determined by D.J. Greathead as Apolysis fumipennis Loew, are conspecific with the two from Israel. Zaitzev (1996) compared his female specimen only with the other two Parageron he described in the same paper, making no mention of any previously described Parageron or Apolysis.

Greece, Israel.

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