Phrosinella (s. str.) nasuta (Meigen, 1824) (Figures 14 and 15)

Tachina nasuta Meigen, 1824: 374 .

Phrosinella nasuta: Séguy, 1941: 304 [redescriptions of ♂ ♀, habits, faunistic]; Venturi, 1947: 126 [in key, faunistic]; 1960: 82, [redescriptions of ♂ ♀, faunistic]; Brander, 1964: 51 [faunistic]; Rohdendorf, 1970: 643 [in key]; 1971a: 447 [in key], 449 [redescriptions of ♂ ♀, faunistic]; 1971b: 135 [redescriptions of ♂ ♀, faunistic]; Mihályi, 1979: 85 [redescriptions of ♂ ♀ faunistic]; Verves, 1980b: 923, [faunistic]; 1986: 102 [catalogue]; Pape, 1987: 68, [faunistic]; Verves, 1990: 553 [in key]; Rognes, 1993: 43 [faunistic]; Fan and Pape, 1996: 241 [faunistic]; Pape, 1996: 124 [catalogue]; Povolný, 1997: 98 [faunistic]; Povolný and Verves, 1997: 108 [redescriptions of ♂ ♀, habits, faunistic]; Pape and Merz, 1998: 338 [faunistic]; Verves, 1998: 5 [faunistic]; 2000: 123 [faunistic]; Papp, 2001: 429 [faunistic]; Kara and Pape, 2002: 291 [faunistic]; Verves, 2003: 44 [faunistic]; Verves and Khrokalo, 2006: 101 [in key, habits, & faunistic]; Zerova et al., 2006: 108 [in key]; Draber-Mońko, 2007: 232 [faunistic]; Kaczorowska, 2009: 63 [habits & faunistic]; Raffone, 2009: 107 [faunistic]; Szpila, 2010: 51 [1st stage larva]; Koçak and Kemal, 2013: 137 [faunistic]; Koçak and Kemal, 2015: 347 [faunistic].

Holotype (male): Europe (probably Germany). Type material lost.

Synonyms:

Miltogramma strenua Perris, 1852: 209 .

Holotype (male): France, Landes. Deposited in MNHM.

Brachicoma metopiella Rondani, 1859: 205 [♀] Brachicoma metopiella: Venturi, 1947: 126 [taxonomy]; Pape, 1988: 10 [holotype revised]

Holotype (female): Italy, Parma. Deposited in MZUF.

Phrosina argyrina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1983: 102, Holotype: France: environs of Paris. Type material lost.

Phrosinella pictipennis Rohdendorf, 1971a: 447 [in key], 450 [♂ ♀]

Phrosinella pictipennis: Rohdendorf, 1971b: 136 [redescriptions of ♂ ♀, faunistic]; Kolomyietz, 1979: 139 [faunistic]; Artamonov, 1980: 32 [faunistic]; Verves, 1986: 103 [catalogue].

Holotype (male): Russia, Primorye, Grossevichi near Soviet Havan. Deposited in ZIN.

Distribution: Palearctic: Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; China (Neimenggu); Czech Republic; Finland; France (mainland and Corsica); Germany; Hungary; Iran; Italy (mainland); Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Libya; Macedonia; Moldova; Mongolia; Russia (European part: Ivanovo, Leningrad, Lipetzk, Volgograd, Voronezh; West Siberia: Tomsk; East Siberia: Chita, Krasnoyarsk; Far East: Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye); Slovakia (Povolný, 1997); Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; the Netherlands; Turkey; Ukraine.

Habits: Very psammophilous and xerophilous species (Séguy, 1941; Zerova et al., 2006; Kaczorowska, 2009). Hosts unknown: the data of Povolný and Verves (1997: 109) about larval kleptoparasitism of P. nasuta in nests of sphecoid wasps Nitella [or Bembex] spinolae and Oxybelus quadrimaculatus really refer to North American species P. fulvicornis, as was noted by Séguy (1941: 305).