Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov 2002
Creators: name: Lelej, Arkady S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Skorikovia

description: Key to the Palaearctic species of Skorikovia
Males
(unknown in serta)
1. Antenna and legs pale yellow. 6.5 mm. (Iran)........................................... .. S. pallipes (Lelej, 1985)
– Antenna and legs black or brown, at most brownish-red...................................................... 2
2. Inner metacoxal carina with apical tooth (Fig. 31)........................................................... 3
– Inner metacoxal carina without apical tooth (Fig. 34)........................................................ 4
3. Ocelli small, diameter of anterior ocellus 1.1 × distance between anterior and lateral ocellus (Fig. 33). Vein 2r-m of forewing not angulate, without medial outer process (Fig. 28). 9.0–10.0 mm. Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Russia: Crimea, Dagestan, Volgograd Region, South Ural; Slovakia ............................................................ S. trinotata (Costa, 1858), comb. nov. (= triangularis Radoszkowski, = pliginskiji Lelej)
– Ocelli large, diameter of anterior ocellus 3.0 × distance between anterior and lateral ocellus (Fig. 22). Vein 2r-m of forewing angulate, with medial outer process (Fig. 26). 8.0–12.0 mm. Russia: Dagestan; Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey ....................................................................................... S. radoszkovskii (Skorikov, 1935)
4. Ocelli small or medial, diameter of anterior ocellus equals or less than distance between anterior and lateral ocellus (Fig. 13). Posterior side of 2r-m cell not thickened (Fig. 11). Volsella with deep basal emargination (Figs 12, 18).................. 5
– Ocelli large, diameter of anterior ocellus almost 2.0 × distance between anterior and lateral ocellus (Fig. 7). Posterior side of 2r-m cell thickened (Fig. 17). Volsella with shallow basal emargination (Figs 3, 9)................................. 6
5. Clypeus with two strong, longitudinal, slightly curved carinae that border median part and each of them ending in a strong denticle anteriorly (Fig. 13). Antennae ferruginous-red. 8.8–10.4 mm. Turkey .... S. anatolica Lelej in Lelej & Yildirim, 2009
– Clypeus without two strong, longitudinal carinae medially. Antennae black.—Apical half of S8 (hypopygium) glabrous, shiny, sparsely punctate throughout. 8.0–10.0 mm. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey ............... S. transcaucasica (Lelej, 1985)
6. Volsellar cuspis wide (ventral view), apically weakly curved inside (Fig. 9)....................................... 7
– Volsellar cuspis narrow (ventral view), apically strongly curved inside (Figs 3, 4).—T7 totally sculptured with black setae. T1 length less than its maximal width. 7.2–12.8 mm. Russia: Astrakhan Region, Kalmykia; Azerbaijan, North Iran, South-West Pakistan .............................................................................. S. maxim sp. nov.
7. Mesosoma totally ferruginous-red (Fig. 10). T1 lateral length 0.7 × T2 lateral length; T1 basally reddish. T2 above felt line with dense punctures, interspaces less diameter of punctures....................................................... 8
– Mesosoma ferruginous-red with brownish-red propodeum and pleurae beneath (Fig. 53). T1 lateral length 0.5 × T2 lateral length; T1 totally reddish. T2 above felt line with sparse punctures, interspaces equal or more than diameter of punctures.— Head reddish-brown with darker vertex. 10.0–12.0 (Egypt, Libya)...................... S. sanguinicollis (Klug, 1829)
8. Basivolsella weakly widened, without lobe, cuspis more or less parallel to gonostyle (Fig. 9). POD:OOD 1.3–1.4. T2 disc with dense punctures. 8.0–16.5 mm. Russia: Stavropol Krai; Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and North Iran ................................................................ S. elongata (Radoszkowski, 1885)
– Basivolsella with distinct external lobe, cuspis curved inwards (Fig. 8). POD:OOD 1.0–1.1. T2 disc with sparse punctures. 7.2–12.0 mm. Afghanistan, Tajikistan ..................................................... S. bactriana sp. nov.
Females
(unknown in anatolica, bactriana, pallipes, transcaucasica, and sanguinicollis)
1. T2 with one medial subbasal spot of pale setae, without lateral subbasal spot of pale setae visible above................ 4
– T2 with one medial and two lateral subbasal spot of pale setae, lateral ones visible above............................ 2
2. Basomedial spot of white setae on T2 larger, more or less quadrangulate, distance between it and apical band of white setae less than its diameter; apical band of T2 sharply narrowed laterad and medially wider that band of T3...................... 3
– Basomedial spot of white setae on T2 smaller, more or less rounded, distance between it and apical band of white setae more than its diameter; apical band of T2 shallowly narrowed laterad and medially narrower that band of T3. 5.0–8.0 mm...................................................................................... S. trinotata (Costa, 1858)
3. T2 basally with distinct lateral spots of pale setae. Pronotum medially black. T4–5 with black setae. 6.8–7.2 mm.................................................................................. S. radoszkovskii (Skorikov, 1935)
– T2 basally with scarcely visible lateral spots of pale setae. Pronotum medially red. T4–5 with ferruginous-golden setae, laterally with spot of white setae. Russia: South Ural. 6.0 mm................................. S. serta (Radoszkowski, 1885)
4. Scutellar scale wide, half of propodeal width. Lateral and posterior propodeal faces separated by wavy carina without teeth. 5.5–8.5 mm............................................................... S. elongata (Radoszkowski, 1885)
– Scutellar scale narrow, one third of propodeal width. Lateral and posterior propodeal faces separated by wavy carina with few tubercles. 5.6 mm....................................................................... S. maxim sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Lelej, Arkady S., 2024, Revision of the Palaearctic genus Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov, 2002 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), pp. 52-72 in Zootaxa 5529 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5529.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14022123