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Pseudomalus triangulifer

Description

9. Pseudomalus triangulifer (Abeille de Perrin, 1877)

Omalus triangulifer Abeille de Perrin 1877: 65. Lectotype ♀ (designated by Kimsey 1986: 106); France: Sainte-Baume (MNHN) (examined). Frey 1957: 160, Valkeila 1958 a: 91, Linsenmaier 1959: 17, Valkeila 1962: 63, Erlandsson 1971: 88, Tumšs 1976: 22, Vikberg 1986b: 67, Hedström 1989: 154, Söderman & Vikberg 2003: 44, Kalniņš et al. 2007: 142, Karlsson 2008.

Pseudomalus triangulifer: Soon 2004: 19, 45, Artsdatabanken 2010, Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 147, Paukkunen 2010: 543, Hallin 2012, Ranta 2012: 32, Rosa & Soon 2012, Dyntaxa 2013.

Material examined. Denmark: NEJ: Skagen, V.1990, 1 ♂ and 2 ♀♀ (P. Falck), and 3.V.1991, 1 ♀ (O. Karsholt). *Russian Fennoscandia: Ik: Terijoki [= Zelenogorsk], 25.VI.1933, 1 ♀ (V.J. Karvonen); Ka: Koiviston mlk., Vasikkasaari, 25.VI.1938, 1 ♂ (E. Kangas); Seiskari [= Ostrov Seskar], [1938], 1 ♀ (A. Merisuo).

Distribution. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, *Russian Fennoscandia.—Westpalearctic: Europe, Turkey (Kimsey & Bohart 1991).

Remarks. The species is closely related to P. auratus and has a similarly wide distribution, but it is much more local and less abundant. The species was reported from Norway only recently on the basis of two old museum specimens (Artsdatabanken 2010). However, many unpublished new records exist from different parts of the country (provinces AK, Ø, , TEY, TEI). The species was reported from Denmark by Soon (2004) on the basis of four specimens found in ZMUC (see data above). In Finland, the species has been included in the national red list as near threatened (Paukkunen 2010), and in Norway as data deficient (Hansen et al. 2010). Kunz (1994) synonymized P. triangulifer with P. auratus, but most authors have considered them as separate species.

Notes

Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433

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