Ferreola algira Lepeletier 1845
Creators: name: Schmid-Egger, Rnold Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Ferreola
Ferreola algira

description: Ferreola algira LEPELETIER, 1845, figs 1-6
Ferreola algira LEPELETIER, 1845: 468, male, female. de Bone, Algérie (Type depository?).
Pompilus sagax KOHL, 1886: 313 (key), 325, male, holotype male (Algier, NMHW). New synonym.
Ferreola pici TOURNIER, 1895: 11. Ain Sefra (leg. Pic); WAHIS & SCHMID- EGGER 2002: 26 (synonymized with Ferreola algira LEPELETIER, 1845 "nec auct.")
Pseudoferreola incisa RADOSZKOWSKI, 1888: 479. Female, Andalousie, Algérie (Berlin, examined). New synonym.
Records: Algeria: 1 female 30.v.1994 Hodna (OLL). Israel: 1 male 14.v. 199610 km S Haifa, Har Carmel/Bet Oren; male 12.v.1996 5 km SSE Sede Boquer, Wadi N’Agev (CSE). 1 female 13.8.1940 Jerusalem; 1 female 18.9.1976 Mt. Meiron (OLL). Jordan: 4 female 2 males nw North Shuna, 30.iv.1996; 1 female 1.v.2006 Ajlun; 1 male 10 im N Petra (CSE); Morocco: 1 female 30.v.1995 40 im SW Ouarzazate, 10 im SW Tazenakht, 1 female 16.vi.2014 1 male 2.iv.1990 Ht. Atlas, N Tizi n’Tichka 2150 m NN [Barcoding voucher Nr.: female BC ZSM HYM 22788) (CSE); 1 female 1 male 14.v.1995 20 lm N Missour; 1 female 10.5.1995 Talmest; 1 female 32.5.1995 5 kim S Tata; 1 female 3 males 16.4.1995 10 km E Guelmin; 1 female 13.5.1995 30 km E Midelt; 1 female 1 male 17.5.1995 40 km S Guercif; 9.4.1995 20 km W Boudrib; 14.4. 199630 km E Agdz; 1 male s 14.7.1932 Asni; 2 males 19.5.1995 Bouarfa, 1 male 23.5.1995 101 km E Yousoffra; male 23.5.1995 Amouguer, 50 km W Rich; 1 male 22.5.1989 Massa (OLL); 1 male and 1 female, Tanger (Berlin). Spain. 1 male 22.iv.2003 30 km SW Almeria, coast (OLL). 1 female Andalusien (type specimen of Pseudoferreola incisa) (Berlin). Syria: 1 female 19.iv.1982 25 km S Latakia (OLL) Tunisia: 1 female 22.6.1994 5km N El Kef; 29.v,1994 1 female 17 im SW Kasserine; 1 female 3 males 6.vi.2000 15 km W Nefta, 1 female 13.vi. 200 E Ain Draham; 1 female 22.iii.2001 Oasis Nefta; 1 female 4 male 24.iii.2001 Tunisia, Thélèpte 35‘04‘‘ N 8‘33’ E [Barcoding voucher Nr.: male BC ZSM HYM 22789), male 23.vi.1994 25 km S Tarbarka (CSE); 2 males 12.9.1982 Gafsa (OLL); 1 female 3.vi.1912 Tunis (Berlin). Turkey: 1 female 17.vi.2000 Harbie/Antakya (OLL).
Re m a r k: The species name " sagax " was used by several authors like YILDIRIM &
WAHIS 2011 or PRIESNER (1955), whereas others used " algira " also in the past (see
HAUPT 1962). Both taxa names are clearly synonymious (R. Wahis pers. comm.), but we
could not find which author first synonymised both. So we do the formal synonymisation
here. The situation is now more complicated by the discovery of a sibling species of F.
algira, F. tunesiensis nov.sp. However, we think that both taxa names, F. algira and F.
sagax refer to the here mentioned species, F. algira. See also remarks at F. tunesiensis.
In the Berlin Museum is an old female of F. algira from " Andalusien " with a blue
handwritten label " Pompilus incisa Radosz., type ". It agree with the description of
Pseudoferreola incisa and may be the type specimen, although the species was described
in the genus Pseudoferreola and not in Pompilus.
Diagnosis: F. algira iswellcharacterizedinbothsexesbytheprolongedclypeus, malar space and vertex, by the clear and sharp edge between propodeal dorsum and desclivity and by the lack of long pilosity on gena. The similar F. tunesiensis shares the long clypeus, malar space and vertex with F. algira, but has a long black pilosity on gena (female only) and a rounded ege on propodeum (males and females). The species varies in body size, examined females measures 10-14 mm, males 8-14 mm. In most specimens are dark red: head (but frons and clypeus may be partly black), pronotum, mesoscutum scutellum and medial part of metanotum. In a female from Syria is the mesosoma all black, read are only gena, vertex and upper inner eye margin. In males, face and clypeus in general is black, however extension of red colour of head is variable. Amale from southern Morocco has underside of flagellomere orange, two other males from the same area have mid- and hindfemor red. Amale from Spain is all black.
Geograf ic distribution: NorthAfricatoIsraelandTurkey.
description: Published as part of Schmid-Egger, Rnold Christian, 2018, New species of Ferreola L, 1845 and Eoferreola A, 1935 with key to Ferreola species from the Palaearctic region (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), pp. 389-412 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on pages 392-394, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4030909