Perilampus masculinus Boucek, 1956

Fig. 9

Perilampus masculinus Bouček, 1956: 91-92.

Diagnosis.

Head black, upper face and vertex with blue green or bronze green reflections; mesosoma dorsally bronze green, occasionally dark bronze or with slight violet reflections; female flagellum brown. Body size: 2.50-3.25 mm. Head shape in frontal view (Fig. 9A, B) much wider than high. Head in lateral view not unusually long, without distinct sulcus separating posterior eye margin from temple. Clypeal margin (Fig. 9A, B) truncate. Supraclypeal area (Fig. 9A, B) strongly transverse (at least 1.5 × as wide as high), sides well defined; in male without oval lateral impressions. Malar sulcus versus anterior margin of malar depression shorter. Frontal keels (Fig. 9A, B) absent. Face between scrobes and eye (Fig. 9A, B) slightly striate. Face between clypeus and eye (Fig. 9A, B) slightly striate near anterior margin of malar depression. Lateral ocellus large (OOL less than twice the largest ocellar diameter). Funicular segments in female (Fig. 9A): most segments quadrate to transverse. Male scape (Fig. 9B) slightly widened distally, ventral pores on more than half scape length. Mesosoma (Fig. 9C) not narrow (less than 1.4 × as long as wide). Mesoscutum sculpture (Fig. 9C) without smooth median tubercle; interspaces smaller than punctures, rugose. Scutellum hind margin (Fig. 9C) without a double carina, with large bilobed protruding projection. Prepectus (Fig. 9D) wide, dorsal margin longer than pronotal collar; well defined anteriorly (i.e. suture with pronotum very distinct); anterior margin without punctures.

Material examined.

Slovakia: 1♀ paratype, "Somotor. Slov. or. 28. VI. 48. Bouček”, “Paratype”, "Perilampus Perilampus Bčk . ♀, Det. Bouček, 1955", "Pres by Com Inst Ent, B.M. 1957-682" (NHMUK) ; 1♂ paratype, " V. Kevežd, Slov. or. 28. VI. 48. Bouček”, “Paratype”, "Perilampus Perilampus Bčk . ♂, Det. Bouček, 1955", "Pres by Com Inst Ent, B.M. 1957-682" (NHMUK) . Sweden: 1♀, "Upl. Vallentuna 13/7 1961, K-J Hedvist", "Standing over: Perilampus Perilampus in Hedqvist coll., NHMUK(E) 2011-27" (NHMUK) .

Hosts.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Czechia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine. New species to Sweden.

Comments.

The females can be confused to those of P. laevifrons (Fig. 8) and P. aureoviridis (Fig. 4); see comments on those species.