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Sphex melas Gussakovskij 1930

Description

Sphex melas Gussakovskij, 1930

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A valid species, Sphex melas (Gussakovskij, 1930) (Menke & Pulawski 2000, Pulawski 2015).

Types. Sphex melas Gussakovskij, 1930a: 207, ♀, Ƌ. Syntype, ♀ "Репетек 22 VI 25 На цв. Salsola Гусаковский [cyrillic] // Sphex melas m. Cotyp. ♀ V. Gussakovskij det. // к. Гуссаковского [cyrillic] // Lectotypus Sphex melas Guss. ♀ design. Marshakov". Syntype, ♀ "Репетек 22 VI 25 Гусаковский [cyrillic] // Sphex melas ♀ m. Cotyp. V. Gussakovskij det. // к. Гуссаковского [cyrillic] // Syntypus ". Syntype, Ƌ "Репетек 22 VI 25 Гусаковский [cyrillic] // Sphex melas m. Ƌ Cot. V. Gussakovskij det. // к. Гуссаковского [cyrillic] // Syntypus ".

Type locality. "Репетек" [= Repetek Biosphere State Reserve, Lebap Province, Turkmenistan, 38°34′N 63°10′E].

Notes

Published as part of Danilov, Yuriy N., 2016, Type specimens of Sphecidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, pp. 335-359 in Zootaxa 4136 (2) on page 353, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/261605

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pompilidae
Genus
Sphex
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Gussakovskij
Species
melas
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sphex melas Gussakovskij, 1930 sec. Danilov, 2016

References

  • Menke, A. S. & Pulawski, W. J. (2000) A review of the Sphex flavipennis species group (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae: Sphecini). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 9, 324 - 346.
  • Pulawski, W. J. (2015) Catalog of Sphecidae. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Available from: http: // calacademy. org / scientists / projects / catalog-of-sphecidae (accessed 3 September 2015)
  • Gussakovskij, V. V. (1930 a) Novyie i malo izvestnyie vidy rodov Ammophila Kby. i Sphex L. (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) [Species novae vel parum cognitae generum Ammophila Kby. et Sphex L. (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)]. Russkoye Entomologicheskoye Obozrenye (Revue Russe d'Entomologie), 24, 199 - 211. [in Russian]