Halictoxenos tumulorum Perkins, 1918

Ostrovsky, A. M. & Ivlev, K. S., 2024, NEW RECORDS OF STYLOPIDS (STREPSIPTERA: STYLOPIDAE) FROM THE EUROPEAN PART OF RUSSIA, Far Eastern Entomologist 504, pp. 26-32 : 27

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.504.2
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scientific name	Halictoxenos tumulorum Perkins, 1918
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MATERIAL EXAMINED. Russia: Kursk Oblast, 18.7 km SW of Kursk, near vill. Berezka, Central Chernozem Nature biosphere reserve named after V. V. Alekhin, Streleckaya step, Dedov Vesely, 51.566494°N, 36.107151°E, the edge of the forest, 12.VIII 2022, K.S. Ivlev leg. – 1♂ of Halictus ( Monilapis) simplex Blüthgen, 1923 (K.S. Ivlev det. (rechecked by Yu. V. Astafurova)) stylopized by 1♀ of Halictoxenos . tumulorum (between IV and V sternites) (A.M. Ostrovsky det.).

DISTRIBUTION. Widely distributed in central and southern Europe, also extending to the Near East and North Africa, currently known from Italy ( type locality), Austria, Canary Islands, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, Belgium, Estonia and the North-western part of European Russia ( Pohl 2010; Soon et al., 2011; Cook, 2019).

REMARKS. Three known European Halictoxenos species are highly specialized parasites of bees from the genus Halictus ( Hymenoptera : Halictidae ). Halictoxenos tumulorum is the only known Stepsiptera parasite of the Halictus subgenus Seladonia , including H. ( S.) kessleri Bramson 1879 and H. ( S.) tumulorum (Linnaeus, 1758) , as well as H. ( Monilapis) simplex Blüthgen, 1923 ( Cook, 2019), which is a common and widespread species in European Russia ( Kinzelbach, 1978).