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Issue: Vol. 5375 No. 4: 24 Nov. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-11-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5375.4.10
Page range: 589-594
Abstract views: 146
PDF downloaded: 15

Lestiphorus bilunulatus yamatonis Tsuneki, 1963 (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) raised to full species status, with description of the hitherto unknown male

Institute of Biology and Biomedicine at Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod; Nizhny Novgorod; 603950; Russia
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladivostok- 22; 690022; Russia
Hymenoptera Apoidea Spheciformes Bembicinae new records taxonomy fauna Palaearctic region

Abstract

Lestiphorus yamatonis Tsuneki, 1963, stat. nov. is resurrected from synonymy and raised to full species level. The species diagnosis is updated and the hitherto unknown male is described. Illustrations of morphological details of L. yamatonis and related species are given. An updated key of the all twelve Palaearctic Lestiphorus is provided.

 

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