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Issue: Vol. 5374 No. 3: 17 Nov. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-11-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.3.7
Page range: 429-436
Abstract views: 206
PDF downloaded: 13

On subgenera of the genus Prionyx Vander Linden, 1827 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), with establishment of a new subgenus

Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals; Russian Academy of Sciences; Siberian Branch; Frunze Street 11; Novosibirsk; 630091; Russia; Tomsk State University; Lenin Avenue 36; Tomsk; 634050; Russia
Omsk State Pedagogical University; Nab. Tukhachevskogo 14; Omsk; 644099; Russia
Hymenoptera digger wasps apoidea Prionychini new subgenus key

Abstract

Because of its highly external morphological diversity, the genus Prionyx Vander Linden, 1827 has been divided into different species-groups or subgenera. The use of these species-groups or subgenra has just been disordered by several authors. Therefore, based on specimens of most worldwide Prionyx species, we here studied and proposed recognition of six subgenera of Prionyx, namely Calosphex, Harpactopus, Neosphex, Foxiprionyx, Prionyx, and Priononyx. Of these subgenera, Foxiprionyx subgen. nov., based on Prionyx foxi Bohart et Menke, 1963, is established as a new subgenus. Whereas Foxiprionyx, Neosphex, and Priononyx are distributed in the New World, Calosphex, Harpactopus and Prionyx are distributed in the Old World. The key to subgenera of Prionyx is provided.

 

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