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

description: 8. Skorikovia serta (Radoszkowski, 1885), comb. nov.
(Figs 43, 51, 52)
Mutilla serta Radoszkowski, 1885: 46, ♀, lectotype (designated here), “Orenb[urg] / Coll. Radozs. / serta [handwritten] / Type / Zool. Mus. Berlin / Lectotype Mutilla serta Radoszkowski, 1885 B. Petersen des. 1988 / Smicromyrme serta (Rad.) B. Petersen det. 1984 / Berlin” [MNHU], examined in 1988 and 2011; Dalla Torre 1897: 85, ♀; André 1899a: 7, ♀. Junior subjective synonym of Physetopoda halensis (Fabricius, 1787) according to Lelej 1985: 203 and resurrected as Smicromyrme sertus according to Lelej 2002: 72.
Smicromyrme (Smicromyrme) sertus: Pagliano et al. 2020: 192.
Diagnosis. FEMALE. Scutellar scale narrow nail-like with prescutellar carina. T2 laterally with obscure pale setae, felt line with pale setae. T4–5 with ferruginous-golden setae. Pygidial area widened basally, coarsely sculptured with striae reaching posterior margin, apical part not glabrous. Body length 6.0 mm. MALE. Unknown
Redescription of lectotype. Body length 6.0 mm. Head. Head length 0.97 × its width. Ratio distance between eyes / long eye diameter 1.5 ×. Eyes elongated, weakly convex, not protruding to head profile. Clypeus basomedially with developed process. F1 slightly longer than F2. Frons, vertex and occiput with yellowish setae not forming distinct spot. Head behind eyes (dorsal view) weakly elongated. Head brown, ventrally brownish red. Mesosoma. Mesosoma length 1.24 × mesonotum width; scutellar scale narrow nail-like with prescutellar carina. Mesosoma ferruginous-red with brown legs. Mesosoma dorsally with sparse yellowish setae, darker on pronotal anterior border. Metasoma. Metasomal segment 1 brown, posterior border of T1with fringe of sparse pale setae. T2 basally with large rectangular medial spot of pale setae, apically with band of pale setae strongly widened medially and obscure lateral widening. T2 laterally with obscure pale setae, but felt line with pale setae. T3 with pale band, T4–5 with ferruginous-golden setae (instead of usual black setae), laterally with spot of white setae. T6 laterally with tuft of white setae. Pygidial area widened basally, coarsely sculptured with striae reaching posterior margin, apical part not glabrous. Metasoma ventrally with sparse pale setae.
Material examined. (1♀). Lectotype only.
Distribution. Russia (South Ural).
Remarks. The type series of Mutilla serta probably includes several specimens. After Radoszkowsky’s death (1895) his personal collection were given by his widow, in 1898, to the Poznan Society of Friends of the Sciences, and that in the following year a selection of some hundreds of “duplicate types” went in exchange to the MNHU. The rest of the collection, which probably numbered originally in excess of 40,000 specimens, went in exchange in 1902 to the ISEA-PAN (Baker 2004). André (1899a) was able to study the Mutillidae in the Radoszkowski collection in Poznan in 1898. He wrote about M. serta in Radoszkowski's collection: “L'individu typique, provenant d'Orenbourg, me paraît simplement être une M. pusilla Kl., à taches latérales effacées, et présentant un cas d'albinisme consistant en ce que les poils noirs, qui recouvrent ordinairement les quatrième et cinquième segments, sont devenus d'un jaune rougeàtre” (André 1899a: 7). Børge Petersen (unpublished) labelled the specimen of Mutilla serta Radoszkowski, 1885 in MNHU with Radoszkowski’s handwritten label “serta ” as the lectotype, because Petersen saw additional specimen of M. serta in ISEA-PAN. Since no validly published lectotype designation has yet been made, I hereby designate the specimen so labelled by Petersen as the lectotype. The lectotype has been collected by Captain V.A. Balassoglo and I.Ya.Akinin in 1879 in Orenburg in one of three localities (Ozerny, Kurala River, and Grigoryevskoye northward of Ugol'naya) (Jacobson 1902).
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 pages 67-68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5529.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14022123