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Issue: Vol. 5631 No. 3: 5 May 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-05-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.6
Page range: 521-532
Abstract views: 63
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A new genus and species of the subfamily Laphyragoginae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae) with analysis of the relationship of Eremiaspheciinae and Laphyragoginae, stat. resurr.

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 taxonomy Spheciformes Laphyragogus Eremiasphecium Odontosphex digger wasps

Abstract

Based on remarkable morphological differences between the two species groups of Laphyragogus Kohl, 1889, the genus is split into Laphyragogus and a new genus, Asphaleia Mokrousov, gen. nov. (type species A. gussakovskii Mokrousov, sp. nov.). Three species are transferred from Laphyragogus to the new genus: Asphaleia ajjer (de Beaumont, 1958), comb. nov., A. gessae (Schmid-Egger, 2022), comb. nov. and A. orientalis (de Beaumont, 1970), comb. nov. Based on morphological analysis, it is shown that Eremiaspheciini and Laphyragogini are not closely related and the status of Laphyragoginae as its own subfamily is resurrected.

 

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How to Cite

Mokrousov, M.V. & Proshchalykin, M.Y. (2025) A new genus and species of the subfamily Laphyragoginae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae) with analysis of the relationship of Eremiaspheciinae and Laphyragoginae, stat. resurr. Zootaxa, 5631 (3), 521–532. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.6