Celonites modestus biinterruptus Kostylev, 1940

Celonites modestus biinterruptus Kostylev View in CoL

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Celonites modestus biinterruptus Kostylev, 1940: 138 View in CoL , ♀ ♂ (type locality: “Ruidacht, 40 km. de Stalinabad ” [ Tajikistan]).

Type material. LECTOTYPE ( DESIGNATED HERE): ♀, labeled “Руйдашт [Ruydasht] / 22-VII 37 / В. Гуссаковск. [ V. Gussakovskij] // Celonites ♀ / modestus / biinterruptus Typ. / G Kostylev det. 1938 // к. Гуссаковского [collection of Gussakovskij] // Lectotype ♀ Celonites / modestus biinterruptus / Kostylev, 1940 / des. Fateryga, 2024 [red label] // Zoological Institute / St. Petersburg / INS_HYM_0000319 [pale yellow label]” [ ZISP]. PARALECTOTYPES: TAJIKISTAN: Ruydasht, 22.VII.1937, 1 ♀, 1 ♂, leg. V. Gussakovskij [1 ♀, ZMMU; 1 ♂, ZISP].

Current status. Valid as Celonites biinterruptus Kostylev, 1940 , stat. nov.

Remarks. Kostylev (1940) reported a female and a male collected in Ruydasht on 22.VII.1937 by V. Gussakovskij as the “ type ” but there are actually two females and a male with Kostylev’s identification labels. All of them can be considered belonging to the type series according to Art. 72.4.1.1 of ICZN (1999). Celonites biinterruptus is clearly a species distinct from C. modestus . The former one has a smaller size in the female sex (the male of C. modestus is unknown and therefore not compared with C. biinterruptus ), a more distinct microsculpture between macropunctures on the frons, more distinct macropunctures on the scutum and scutellum, which do not form longitudinal rows ( C. modestus has macropunctures, which form longitudinal rows on the scutum and scutellum, and those on the scutellum are smoothened), and a very distinct color pattern (particularly, metasomal terga have twice-interrupted whitish apical bands, with ferruginous margins, while these band are not interrupted and uniformly yellow in C. modestus ).