Holopyga inflammata
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Holopyga
Name
Holopyga inflammata (Förster, 1853) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Ellampus inflammatus Förster, 1853: 348.
- Holopyga gloriosa of authors, not (Fabricius, 1793), suppressed name (ICZN 1998[1]).
- Holopyga inflammata: Linsenmaier 1959[2]: 34.
Diagnosis
Length 5–7 mm. Both sexes have similar colouration: the head, propleuron, mesopleuron, propodeum and legs are blue or blue-violet, whereas the pronotum, mesoscutum, mesoscutellum and metascutellum are red. The colouration is relatively similar to the female of Holopyga fervida, but the head is completely blue (without red vertex), the metascutellum is red (not blue) and the mesoscutellum is uniformly punctured (not sparser anteriorly).
Distribution
Finland, Lithuania. Very rare. In Finland, more than 30 specimens were collected in the south-eastern part of the country (Joutseno) in 1957–1960, but currently the species is classified as regionally extinct (Paukkunen 2010[3]). In Lithuania, no records are known since 1970 (Orlovskytė et al. 2010[4]). – West Palearctic: Europe, northern Africa, western Asia (Linsenmaier 1997[5], 1999[6]).
Biology
Habitat: sparsely vegetated sandy areas. Adults visit flowers of Apiaceae (Brechtel 1985[7], Rosa 2004[8]). Flight period: early June to early August. Host: unknown.
Taxon Treatment
- Paukkunen, J; Berg, A; Soon, V; Ødegaard, F; Rosa, P; 2015: An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species ZooKeys, (548): 1-116. doi
Other References
- ↑ ICZN (1998) Opinion 1906. Euchroeus Latreille, 1809 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): conserved; Chrysis purpurata Fabricius, 1787 (currently Euchroeus purpuratus): specific name conserved; and Chrysis gloriosa Fabricius, 1793: specific name suppressed. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55: 194–196.
- ↑ Linsenmaier W (1959) Revision der Familie Chrysididae (Hymenoptera) mit besonderer Brücksichtigung der europäischen Spezies. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 32: 1–232.
- ↑ Paukkunen J (2010) Stinging wasps. In: Rassi P Hyvärinen E Juslén A Mannerkoski I (Eds) The 2010 Red List of Finnish Species. Finnish Ministry of Environment and Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, 529–544.
- ↑ Orlovskytė S, Budrienė A, Budrys E (2010) Check-list of cuckoo-wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) of Lithuania. New and rare for Lithuania insect species 22: 141–156.
- ↑ Linsenmaier W (1997) Die Goldwespen der Schweiz. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Natur-Museum Luzern 9: 1–139.
- ↑ Linsenmaier W (1999) Die Goldwespen Nordafrikas (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae). Entomofauna, Supplement 10: 1–281.
- ↑ Brechtel F (1985) Naturschutzbezogene Erfassung der Stechimmenfauna des Bienwaldes und seiner Randbereiche (Südpfalz) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ökologie Kunstnest-bewohnender Arten. Diss. Univ., Karlsruhe, 437 pp.
- ↑ Rosa P (2004) Alcune osservazioni sulle relazioni tra Vegetazione e Crisidi (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) in Italia. Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 11: 79–90.
