Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 5632 No. 2: 7 May 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-05-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5632.2.1
Page range: 201-242
Abstract views: 70
PDF downloaded: 5

Type specimens of the pollen wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Masarinae) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Zoological Museum of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

T.I. Vyazemsky Karadag Scientific Station—Nature Reserve of RAS—Branch of A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS; Nauki Str. 24; Kurortnoye; 298188 Feodosiya; Russia.
Hymenoptera masarine wasps taxonomy new synonymy lectotypification Palaearctic region

Abstract

The type specimens of the pollen wasps deposited in the collections of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Zoological Museum of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University are revised. Primary types of 30 taxa are illustrated, 12 of them with either a paratype or a paralectotype of the opposite sex. Lectotypes are designated for the following 16 nominal taxa: Celonites crenulatus Morawitz, 1888, C. foveolatus Kostylev, 1935, C. hystrix Kostylev, 1940, C. modestus Kostylev, 1935, C. modestus biinterruptus Kostylev, 1940, Saryara octoannulata Kuznetzov, 1923, Celonites octoannulatus hissaricus Kostylev, 1940, C. semenovi Kostylev, 1935, C. tristiculus karatauicus Kostylev, 1935, C. tudesculptus Kostylev, 1935, Jugurtia eurycara Kostylev, 1935, J. irana Kostylev, 1935, J. jemenensis Kostylev, 1935, J. zarudnyi Kostylev, 1935, J. chlorotica Morawitz, 1888, and Quartinia uzbeka Kostylev, 1935. Five new synonymies are proposed: Celonites cyprius de Saussure, 1854 = C. cyprius smirnensis Richards, 1962, syn. nov.; C. laetus Panfilov, 1968 = C. phlomis Gusenleitner, 1973, syn. nov.; C. octoannulatus (Kuznetzov, 1923) = C. octoannulatus hissaricus Kostylev, 1940, syn. nov.; C. semenovi Kostylev, 1935 = C. pictus rufiventris Gusenleitner, 1992, syn. nov.; C. tristiculus Kostylev, 1935 = C. tristiculus karatauicus Kostylev, 1935, syn. nov. Celonites modestus biinterruptus Kostylev, 1940 and Ceramius fonscolombei oraniensis Lepeletier, 1841 are raised to full species (Celonites biinterruptus Kostylev, 1940, stat. nov.; Ceramius oraniensis Lepeletier, 1841, stat. resurr.). A checklist of all currently valid species of the subfamilies Gayellinae and Masarinae s. str. contained in the two studied collections is provided (77 species, two of which are of a doubtful taxonomic independence and eight are undescribed).

 

References

  1. Astafurova, Yu.V. & Proshchalykin, M.Yu. (2018) The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution I. Family Halictidae, genus Lasioglossum Curtis, 1833. Zootaxa, 4408 (1), 1–66. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4408.1.1
  2. Brauns, H. (1902) Beiträge zur Kenntnis südafrikanischer Masariden. (Hym.). Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, 2, 181–185.
  3. Brauns, H. (1903) Beiträge zur Kenntnis südafrikanischer Masariden. (Hym.). Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, 3, 65–73.
  4. Brauns, H. (1905) Masaridae von Südafrika. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 3, 219–234.
  5. Carpenter, J.M. (1982) The phylogenetic relationship and natural classification of the Vespoidea (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology, 7 (1), 11–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.1982.tb00124.x
  6. Carpenter, J.M. (1988a [1987]) A review of the subspecies concept in the eumenine genus Zeta (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche, 94 (3–4), 253–259. https://doi.org/10.1155/1987/82829
  7. Carpenter, J.M. (1988b) The phylogenetic system of the Gayellini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Masarinae). Psyche, 95 (3–4), 211–241. https://doi.org/10.1155/1988/45034
  8. Carpenter, J.M. (2001) Checklist of species of the subfamily Masarinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates, 3325, 1–39. https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2001)325<0001:COSOTS>2.0.CO;2
  9. de Saussure, H.F. (1853) [Sans titre]. In: Bulletin entomologique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Série 3, 1, XVII–XXI.
  10. de Saussure, H.F. (1854) Mélanges hyménoptérologiques. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 14 (1), 1–67, 1 pl.
  11. Dusmet y Alonso, J.M. (1909) Véspidos, Euménidos y Masáridos de España. Suplemento segundo. In: Actas y memorias del Primer Congreso de Naturalistas Españoles celebrado en Zaragoza los días 7–10 de octubre de 1908. Imprenta y Papelería de Manuel Sevilla, Zaragoza, pp. 163–184.
  12. Fateryga, A.V. (2020) New records of Celonites kozlovi Kostylev, 1935 and C. sibiricus Gusenleitner, 2007 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae), with observations on their behavior at flowers. Far Eastern Entomologist, 405, 20–32. https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.405.4
  13. Fateryga, A.V. & Buyanjargal, B. (2022) New records of Quartinia mongolica (Morawitz, 1889), with a comment on a closely related species Q. funebris Kostylev, 1935 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae). Far Eastern Entomologist, 453, 8–16. https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.453.2
  14. Fateryga, A.V. & Fadeev, K.I. (2023) The identity of Celonites montanus Mocsáry, 1906 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) and its first record from Kazakhstan. Zootaxa, 5319 (4), 563–572. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5319.4.6
  15. Fateryga, A.V., Mauss, V. & Proshchalykin, M.Yu. (2023a) Foraging behavior of two pollen wasp species of the genus Celonites Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae), from the Altai Mountains. Insects, 14 (5), 408. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14050408
  16. Fateryga, A.V. & Proshchalykin, M.Yu. (2024) New records of the solitary Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae and Eumeninae s. l.) from Central Asia, with new synonyms and description of a new species of Eumenes Latreille. Zootaxa, 5529 (3), 551–569. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5529.3.7
  17. Fateryga, A.V., Proshchalykin, M.Yu., Maharramov, M.M. & Astafurova, Yu.V. (2021) New records of solitary vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae and Eumeninae s. l.) from the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa, 5027 (1), 36–60. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5027.1.2
  18. Fateryga, A.V., Proshchalykin, M.Yu., Mokrousov, M.V. & Akhmedov, A.G. (2023b) To the knowledge of the solitary vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae and Eumeninae s. l.) of Uzbekistan. Zootaxa, 5278 (3), 439–460. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5278.3.2
  19. Gess, S.K. (1992) Biogeography of the masarinae wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae), with particular emphasis on the southern African taxa and on correlations between masarine and forage plant distributions. Journal of Biogeography, 19 (5), 491–503. https://doi.org/10.2307/2845768
  20. Gess, S.K. (1996) The pollen wasps. Ecology and natural history of the Masarinae. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, x + 340 pp. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674281684
  21. Gess, S.K. & Gess, F.W. (2010) Pollen wasps and flowers in southern Africa. SANBI Biodiversity Series 18. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 147 pp.
  22. Giordani Soika, A. (1960) Notulae vespidologicae X.—Due nuove specie del Caucaso. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, 90 (7–8), 133–134.
  23. Gusenleitner, J. (1973) Über Masaridae aus dem nahen Osten (Vespoidea, Hymenoptera). Bolletino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 24, 55–69.
  24. Gusenleitner, J. (1992) Bemerkenswerte Funde von Masaridae in Griechenland und im Nahen Osten (Vespoidea, Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beiträge, 24 (1), 59–63.
  25. Gusenleitner, J. (2002) Über die Arten der Gattung Masaris Fabricius 1793 aus Zentralasien (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea, Masaridae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge, 34 (1), 321–333.
  26. Gussakovskij, V.V. (1935) Sphecodea und Vespodea von Tajikistan. Transactions of the Tajik Base of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 5, 409–467. [in Russian]
  27. Hermes, M.G. & de Oliveira, L.A. (2016) Morphological cladistic analysis resolves the generic limits of the Neotropical potter wasp genera Minixi Giordani Soika and Pachyminixi Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Invertebrate Systematics, 30 (3), 187–200. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS15031
  28. ICZN (1999) International code of zoological nomenclature. 4th Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, xxix + 306 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.50608
  29. Kostylev, G. (1925) Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Masaris F. (Hym). Entomologische Mitteilungen, 14 (2), 150–153.
  30. Kostylev, G. (1935) Materialien zur Kenntnis der Masariden-Fauna der Paläarktis. Archives du Muzée Zoologique de l’Université de Moscou, 2, 85–116. [in Russian and German]
  31. Kostylev, G. (1940) Espèces novivelles et peu connues de Vespides, d’Euménides et de Masarides paléarctiques (Hymenoptera) I. Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes de Moscou. Section Biologique, 49 (3–4), 137–154.
  32. Kuznetzov, N.N. (1923) [Saryara octoannulata, sp. nov. and S. longicornis, sp. nov.—representatives of a new subfamily of the fam. Masaridae (preliminary note)]. News of the Turkestan Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, 16, 127–128. [in Russian and Latin]
  33. Latreille, P.A. (1810) Considérations générales sur l’ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des crustacés, des arachnides, et des insectes; avec un tableau méthodique de leurs genres, disposés en familles. Schoell, Paris, 444 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.34917
  34. Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, A.L.M. (1841) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères. Tome 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 680 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.9005
  35. Mauss, V. (1998) The identity and distribution of Ceramius auctus (Fabricius, 1804) Vecht, 1970 (Ceramius spiricornis Saussure, 1854 syn. nov.) and Ceramius beaumonti (Giordani Soika, 1957) Richards, 1962 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, New Series, 34 (2), 163–183. https://doi.org/10.1080/21686351.1998.12277769
  36. Mauss, V. (1999) Taxonomy, biogeography and phylogenetic position of the North African Ceramius maroccanus-complex (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Masarinae). Entomologica Scandinavica, 30 (3), 323–348. https://doi.org/10.1163/187631200X00156
  37. Mauss, V. (2007) Evolution verschiedener Lebensformtypen innerhalb basaler Teilgruppen der Faltenwespen (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Denisia, 20, 701–722.
  38. Mauss, V. (2013) Description of Celonites andreasmuelleri sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) from the Middle East with a key to the Palaearctic species of the C. abbreviatus-complex of the subgenus Celonites s. str. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 31, 79–95. https://doi.org/10.3897/JHR.31.4235
  39. Mauss, V., Fateryga, A.V., Yildirim, E. & Carpenter, J.M. (2022) Contribution to the taxonomy, bionomics and distribution of the Palaearctic Celonites cyprius-group (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) with the description of two new species from the North Caucasus and East Anatolia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 89, 109–155. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.89.79832
  40. Mauss, V., Kuba, K. & Krenn, H.W. (2019) Evolution of the multifunctional mouthparts of adult Vespidae. In: Krenn, H.W. (Ed.), Insect mouthparts. Zoological Monographs 5. Springer, Cham, pp. 443–478. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29654-4_14
  41. Mocsáry, A. (1877) Hymenoptera nova in collectione Musei nationalis Hungarici. Természetrajzi Füzetek, 1 (2), 87–91.
  42. Mocsáry, A. (1906) Vespidarum species quattuor novae. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 4, 197–200.
  43. Morawitz, F. (1888) Hymenoptera aculeata nova. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 22 (3–4), 224–302.
  44. Morawitz, F. (1889) Insecta, a Cl. G.N. Potanin in China et in Mongolia novissime lecta. IV. Hymenoptera Aculeata. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 23 (1–2), 112–168.
  45. Nixon, K.C. & Wheeler, Q.D. (1990) An amplification of the phylogenetic species concept. Cladistics, 6 (3), 211–223. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.1990.tb00541.x
  46. Panfilov, D.V. (1961) [A new species of pollen wasps (Hymenoptera, Masaridae) from Kirgizia]. Archives du Muzée Zoologique de l’Université de Moscou, 8, 165–169. [in Russian]
  47. Panfilov, D.V. (1968) [New species of Middle Asian and Transcaucasian hymenopterans (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae, Masaridae, Vespidae)]. Archives du Muzée Zoologique de l’Université de Moscou, 11, 36–43. [in Russian]
  48. Pesenko, Yu.A. & Astafurova, Yu.V. (2003) Annotated bibliography of Russian and Soviet publications on the bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea; excluding Apis mellifera): 1771–2002. Denisia, 11, 1–616.
  49. Piekarski, P.K., Carpenter, J.M., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M. & Sharanowski, B.J. (2018) Phylogenomic evidence overturns current conceptions of social evolution in wasps (Vespidae). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35 (9), 2097–2109. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy124
  50. Rahmani, Z., Rakhshani, E. & Carpenter, J.M. (2020) Updated checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) in Iran. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 6 (1), 27–86. https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.6.1.27
  51. Richards, O.W. (1962) A revisional study of the masarid wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). British Museum of Natural History, London, vi + 294 pp.
  52. Schmid-Egger, C. (2017) Order Hymenoptera, family Vespidae. Subfamily Masarinae. In: van Harten, A. (Ed.), Arthropod fauna of the UAE. Vol. 6. Department of The President’s Affairs, Abu Dhabi, pp. 341–349.
  53. Selis, M. (2018) Revision of the genus Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) in the Philippine Islands. Zootaxa, 4531 (4), 507–531.
  54. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4531.4.3
  55. Selis, M. & Carpenter, J.M. (2023) Revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Anterhynchium de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Zootaxa, 5233 (1), 1–102. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5233.1.1
  56. Selis, M., Fateryga, A.V. & Cilia, G. (2024) The genus Euodynerus Dalla Torre in Europe and the Maghreb (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Zootaxa, 5537 (2), 151–194. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5537.2.1
  57. Tan, J.-L., van Achterberg, K., Duan, M.-J. & Chen, X.-X. (2014) An illustrated key to the species of subgenus Gyrostoma Kirby, 1828 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) from China, with discovery of Polistes (Gyrostoma) tenuispunctia Kim, 2001. Zootaxa, 3785 (3), 377–399. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3785.3.3
  58. Villers, C. de (1789) Caroli Linnaei Entomologia, faunae Suecicae descriptionibus aucta; DD. Scopoli, Geoffroy, de Geer, Fabricii, Schrank, &c. speciebus vel in Systemate non enumeratis, vel nuperrime detectis, vel speciebus Galliae Australis locupletata, generum specierumque rariorum iconibus ornata. Tom. 3. Piestre & Delamolliere, Lugduni [London], 608 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12476
  59. von Schulthess, A. (1929) Contribution to the knowledge of African Masaridae (Vespoidea). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10, 3 (17), 498–511. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222932908673003
  60. ZOBODAT (2025a) Biogeographical data record. Available from: https://www.zobodat.at/belege.php?id=102193327 (accessed 27 February 2025)
  61. ZOBODAT (2025b) Biogeographical data record. Available from: https://www.zobodat.at/belege.php?id=102193338 (accessed 27 February 2025)

How to Cite

Fateryga, A.V. (2025) Type specimens of the pollen wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Masarinae) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Zoological Museum of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Zootaxa, 5632 (2), 201–242. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5632.2.1