Orthocentrus castellanus Ceballos, 1963

Orthocentrus castellanus Ceballos, 1963 View in CoL

Fig. 4 View Figure 4

Material examined.

Lectotype. [ Spain] • 1 ♀; La Granja [ Real Sitio de San Ildefonso, Segovia]; Sep. 1933; J. Gil [ J. Gil Collado leg.]; Orthocentrus castilianus Tipo [Type], G. Ceballos det. [handwritten by Ceballos] // Según Dr. Aubert de 1972 es válida la identificación de « castillanus Ceb. » [After Dr. Aubert in 1972 the identification « castillanus Ceb. » is correct; probably handwritten by I. Izquierdo] // Orthocentrus castellanus Ceb. Lectotipo [= Lectotype] C. Rey desig. [nated in] 1990 // Orthocentrus corrugatus Holm. ( = castilianus Ceb. ) JF Aubert det.; MNCN Cat. Tipos Nº 9217; MNCN_Ent 392296 ; MNCN . Paralectotype. [ Spain]: • 1 ♀; La Granja [ Real Sitio de San Ildefonso, Segovia]; July 1934; Gil Collado [ J. Gil Collado leg.]; Orthocentrus castilianus G. Ceballos det. [handwritten by Ceballos] // Paralectotipo [= Paralectotype, prob. added by C. Rey after the designation of the other syntype as lectotype]; MNCN Cat. Tipos Nº 9217; MNCN_Ent 392297 ; MNCN .

Additional material.

Cyprus • 1 ♂; Kakopetria ; 10 May 1978; J. F. Aubert leg.; GBIFCH 00909028 ; MZL . [ France] • 1 ♀; Les Grillons (BA) [ Basses-Alpes]; 06 July 1967; J. F. Aubert leg.; GBIFCH 00991635 ; MZL . Italy • 1 ♀; Toscana, Is. Elba ; 02–15 May 2001; Malaise trap; FDG .

Diagnosis.

Female. Face aciculate; eye glabrous (Fig. 4 E View Figure 4 ). Antenna with 26–29 flagellomeres, first flagellomere 2.0–2.4 × as long as wide (Fig. 4 B View Figure 4 ). Vertex yellow or ivory along inner orbits (Fig. 4 D View Figure 4 ). Mesosoma black, with only propleuron and pronotum largely marked with yellow (Fig. 4 A View Figure 4 ). Fore wing with vein 3 rs-m present, areolet petiolate; hind wing with nervellus intercepted below the middle (Fig. 4 A View Figure 4 ). First metasomal tergite 1.7–1.8 × as long as posterior width, weakly granulate, with latero-median longitudinal carinae weak to indistinct; second tergite 1.1 × as long as posterior width, with a weak subapical transverse furrow, weakly granulate (Fig. 4 G View Figure 4 ); third tergite weakly granulate on anterior 0.4.

Male. See remark.

Distribution.

Spain, France ( Aubert 1978),? Bulgaria ( Kolarov 1986), Iran ( Mohammadi-Khoramabadi and Talebi 2013),? Cyprus (see remark), first record for Italy.

Remark.

The head of the paralectotype female is missing and the specimen has pronotum with a yellow line along upper margin, thus it probably belongs to O. orbitator . The single male from Cyprus identified by J. Aubert as questionable was examined. The specimen generally resembles females (Fig. 4 C, F, H View Figure 4 ), but has shorter antenna with 25 flagellomeres (first flagellomere 3.0 × as long as wide) and an entirely yellow frons (Fig. 4 F View Figure 4 ). The specimen differs from males of O. orbitator only by the more abundant yellow on the frons (to compare see Fig. 7 G View Figure 7 ), while the number and length of the flagellomeres are the same. Thus, the status of the specimen remains uncertain until freshly collected specimens associated with females or confirmed by molecular markers can be studied and described.