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EF305675DB28FFFD147ECB06DC3FEC40.text	EF305675DB28FFFD147ECB06DC3FEC40.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tachytes argyropis de Saussure 1887	<div><p>Tachytes argyropis de Saussure</p><p>Figures 1 –6.</p><p>Tachytes argyropis de Saussure, 1887:18, ♀. Lectotype: ♀, Madagascar: no specific locality (MHNG), present designation, examined. – de Saussure, 1890:pl. 10, fig. 8a and pl. 11, figs. 8 and 8m), 1892:476 (Madagascar, redescription); Dalla Torre, 1897:687 (in catalog of world Hymenoptera); Kohl, 1909:372 (Madagascar: Imerina, Toamasina, Toliara); von Schulthess in Friederichs, 1918a:47 (Madagascar: Antananarivo); Arnold, 1945:108 (in revision of Tachytes of Madagascar); Leclercq, 1960:99 (Madagascar: locality records), 1961:111 (Madagascar: locality records); R. Bohart and Menke, 1976:263 (in checklist of world Sphecidae); Leclercq, 1990:118 (Madagascar: locality records); Pulawski, 2003:798 (in checklist of Malagasy Sphecidae); Madl, 2014:986 (in catalog of Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, and Sphecidae of Madagascar, with synonymy and locality records).</p><p>LECTOTYPE SELECTION.— Owing to the kindness of Monsieur Bernard Landry, I was able to examine two female and two male syntypes of this species, bearing the original name labels by de Saussure, and preserved in the MHNG. The labels read “ Madagascar, Sikora”, with no specific locality (Franz Sikora was a renowned collector). I have selected a female as the lectotype of this species. It agrees perfectly well with the current interpretation of this species.</p><p>COMPARISON WITH SIMILAR SPECIES.— Tachytes argyropis shares the reduced number of palpomeres (palpal formula 5 + 3), and closely resembles, three species from continental Africa: T. admirabilis Turner, 1916, T. danae Arnold, 1923, and T. marshalli Turner, 1912 (that were placed by Turner, 1917 in his subgenus Calotachytes). All three species have an elongate galea (Figs. 1, 2), longer than the scape, markedly elongate basal segment of the labial palpus (Fig. 3), and the male midbasitarsus, looking emarginate in profile (Fig. 4). Tachytes argyropis differs from T. admirabilis and T. danae in having well-defined silvery fasciae on the preapical depressions of terga I-IV (the setae on the remaining parts of terga appear dark from most angles, but silvery from some angles). In the other two species the gastral setae are uniformly golden; also, in T. admirabilis the forewing is markedly infumate (yellowish in T. argyropis). T. argyropis differs from T. marshalli by a number of characters: the wing membrane is yellowish, darkened along the apical margin, in the female the postocellar area is longer than wide and the setae of tergum V are the same color as on the preceding terga, and in the male the basal emargination on the venter of midbasitarsus is about twice as long as the nonemarginate apical part, which is less prominent, and the venter of flagellomeres II and III has no erect setae (in T. marshalli the wing membrane is conspicuously infumate, in the female the postocellar area is about as wide as long and the setae of tergum V are black, clearly contrasting with the setae on the preceding terga; in the male the basal emargination on the venter of midbasitarsus is about as long as the nonemarginate apical part, which is more prominent, and the venter of flagellomeres II and III has silvery, erect setae whose length is up to about 0.5 of midocellar diameter).</p><p>The elongate galea (longer than the scape) and the markedly elongate basal segment of the labial palpus are also found in T. galeatus and in the Saharan species T. basilicus Guérin Méneville and its Afrotropical relatives. The palpal formula of these species, however, is 6 + 4.</p><p>RECORDS ..— (Fig. 6; M: from Madl, 2014).—</p><p>Antananarivo Province: Ambatoloana (M), Ampe-</p><p>fy at Lac Kavitaha (M), Analavory (M), Antananarivo (1 ♀, 2 ♂, CAS), Imerina (Kohl, 1909) . Antsir-</p><p>anana (= Diego Suarez) Province: Montagne des</p><p>Français at 12º19’22’’S 49º20’17’’E (1 ♀, CAS),</p><p>Parc National Montagne d’Ambre at 12º30’52’’S</p><p>49º10’53’’E (1 ♀, CAS). Fianarantsoa Province:</p><p>Ambalavao (M), Ambositra (M), Ampitavananima</p><p>Forest 50 km S Farafangana at 23º7.79’S</p><p>47º43.02’E (15 ♀, 9 ♂, CAS), Fianarantsoa (Leclercq, 1990), Ifaty: coastal dunes at 23º10.78’S</p><p>43º37.01’E (1 ♂, CAS), Ihosy (M), 40 road km W</p><p>Ihosy at 22º28’S 45º49’E (13 ♀, CAS), 22 km SW</p><p>Ilakaka at 22º46.75’S 45º1.50’E (16 ♀, 12 ♂, CAS),</p><p><a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=45.166668&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-22.6" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 45.166668/lat -22.6)">Isalo National Park</a> at 22º36’S 45º10’E (1 ♀, 2 ♂,</p><p>CAS), near Isalo National Park at 22º37.60’S</p><p>45º21.49’E (3 ♀, 13 ♂, CAS), Italaviana 35 km SSE</p><p>Antsirabe at 20º10.40’S 47º05.16’E (1 ♀, 5 ♂,</p><p>CAS), Mananjary (M), Ranohira (M), Ranomafana</p><p>National Park at 21º15’05’’S 47º24’43’’E (6 ♀, 3 ♂,</p><p>CAS), 21º15.99’S 47º25.21’E (1 ♀, CAS), and</p><p>21.25537ºS 47.45515ºE (1 ♀, CAS), 7 km W</p><p>Sendrisoa at 21º57.96’S 46º55.95’E (3 ♀, 1 ♂,</p><p>CAS). Toamasina Province: Andasibe National</p><p>Park (1 ♀, CAS), Fampanambo (M), Toamasina</p><p>(Kohl, 1909), 20 road km SW Toamasina at 18º15’S</p><p>49º16’E (1 ♀, 1 ♂, CAS). Toliara Province: Ambo-</p><p>himahavelona village 33 km NE Toliara at</p><p>23º26.45’S 43º53.98’E (1 ♀, 1 ♂, CAS),</p><p>Ambovombe (M), Andohahela National Park at</p><p>24º56.21’S 46º37.60’E (2 ♀, CAS), Antanimora FIGURE 6. Collecting localities of Tachytes argyreus de Saussure .</p><p>(Arnold, 1945), Behara (Arnold, 1945), Bekily</p><p>(Arnold, 1945), Betroka (M), Beza Mahafaly Réserve at 23º41.19’S 44º35.46’E (1 ♀, CAS), Cap Sainte Marie Special Reserve at 25º35.26’S 45º09.78’E (1 ♀, CAS), Lake Ranobe at 23º02.468’S 43º36.607’E (1 ♀, CAS), Réserve Privée Berenty at 25º00.40’S 46º18.20’E (2 ♀, 3 ♂, CAS), Sakaraha (M), Taolagnaro (Leclercq, 1960, as Fort Dauphin), Toliara (Kohl, 1909), Tsiamanampetsotsa National Park at 23º59’32’’S 43º52’50’’E (2 ♂, CAS). Locality unknown ([F.] Sikora collector): 2 ♀, 1 ♂, CAS, determined by F. Kohl; 2 ♀, 2 ♂, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Genève, Switzerland, determined by H. de Saussure, including female lectotype of T. argyropis .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EF305675DB28FFFD147ECB06DC3FEC40	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pulawski, Wojciech J.	Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2019): A Review of the Wasp Genus Tachytes Panzer, 1806 of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (7): 117-135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13156992
EF305675DB2FFFFC147ECFF2D996EC8C.text	EF305675DB2FFFFC147ECFF2D996EC8C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tachytes copiosus Arnold	<div><p>Tachytes copiosus Arnold</p><p>Figures 7 –11.</p><p>Tachytes copiosus Arnold, 1945:111, ♀, ♂ (as copiosa, incorrect original termination). Syntypes: Madagascar: Behara (MNHN). – R. Bohart and Menke, 1976:264 (in checklist of world Sphecidae); Pulawski,</p><p>2003:798 (in checklist of Malagasy Sphecidae); Madl, 2014:986 (in catalog of Ampulicidae,</p><p>Crabronidae, and Sphecidae of Madagascar, with synonymy and locality records).</p><p>RECOGNITION.— The female of Tachytes copiosus lacks unique diagnostic features, therefore it can be recognized only by a long suite of characters that eliminate the other species. So, its galea is shorter than wide and the gaster is all black, with silvery, apical fasciae of setae on the terga. Unlike T. picticornis, the apical depressions of its sterna II-V are impunctate (rather than punctate). Unlike T. indifferens the postocellar punctures are of two distinct sizes (the dense minute punctures are interspersed with larger, sparser punctures) rather than being uniformly small, the flagellum is partly ferruginous (rather than all black), and the femora are largely black (whereas the mid- and hindfemora are ferruginous in T. indifferens). It differs from T. rufomarginatus in having a well-defined patch of appressed setae anterolaterally on the scutum (rather than the patch ill defined, almost absent), and in having the setae on the hindfemoral venter sparser and less dense. Finally, unlike T. flavocinereus, the clypeal lamella is emarginate mesally, although only inconspicuously so in some specimens (rather than non-emarginate), the admedian scutal line is concealed by the</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EF305675DB2FFFFC147ECFF2D996EC8C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pulawski, Wojciech J.	Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2019): A Review of the Wasp Genus Tachytes Panzer, 1806 of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (7): 117-135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13156992
EF305675DB2CFFFE147ECAB8D995EC96.text	EF305675DB2CFFFE147ECAB8D995EC96.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tachytes flavocinereus Arnold	<div><p>Tachytes flavocinereus Arnold</p><p>Figures 12 –17.</p><p>Tachytes flavocinereus Arnold, 1945:112, ♀, ♂ (as flavocinerea, incorrect original termination). Lectotype: ♂, Madagascar:, Bekily (MNHN), present designation. – Leclercq, 1961:112 (Madagascar: locality records). – As Tachytes flavocinereus: R. Bohart and Menke, 1976:265 (in checklist of world Sphecidae); Leclercq, 1990:118 (Madagascar: locality records); Pulawski, 2003:798 (in checklist of Malagasy Sphecidae); Madl, 2014:986 (in catalog of Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, and Sphecidae of Madagascar, with synonymy and locality records).</p><p>LECTOTYPE SELECTION.— Madame Claire Villemant of the MNHN kindly sent me, in 2009,</p><p>a pair of Arnold’s syntypes of Tachytes flavocinereus, both collected at Bekily, Madagascar. I have selected the male as the lectotype , and the female as a paralectotype.</p><p>RECOGNITION.— Among the species with the galea shorter than the scape, the female of T. flavocinereus can be recognized by the non-emarginate clypeal lamella (Fig. 12). Subsidiary recognition features are: apical depressions of terga I-IV with silvery setal fasciae; galea slightly longer than wide (Fig. 13); admedian scutal line not concealed by vestiture; scutal punctures not excessively fine (Fig. 15); setae of the pygidial plate cupreous. In the other such species, the clypeal lamella is emarginate mesally, although the emargination is inconspicuous in some</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EF305675DB2CFFFE147ECAB8D995EC96	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pulawski, Wojciech J.	Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2019): A Review of the Wasp Genus Tachytes Panzer, 1806 of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (7): 117-135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13156992
EF305675DB23FFF0147ECFF2DF70E985.text	EF305675DB23FFF0147ECFF2DF70E985.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tachytes galeatus Pulawski 2019	<div><p>Tachytes galeatus Pulawski, species nova</p><p>Figures 18–20.</p><p>NAME DERIVATION.— Galeatus is an adjective derived from galea, which is unusually long in this species.</p><p>RECOGNITION.— Like T. argyropis and unlike all other Madagascan Tachytes, the galea of this species is longer than the scape, as in Figs. 1 and 2 (rather than shorter) and the first article of the labial palpus is about as long as the scape, as in Fig. 3 (rather than markedly shorter). Unlike T. argyropis, the palpal formula of T. galeatus is 6+4 (rather than 5+3); see the key for other differences.</p><p>Tachytes galeatus resembles several continental African species in having an elongate galea and the first article of the labial palpus and in lacking the golden setae arranged in a checkered pattern on the gastral terga (these setae are present in T. basilicus Guérin-Méneville and its relatives). It differs from all these species in having the gaster dark reddish or at least with dark reddish zones rather than all black.</p><p>DESCRIPTION.— Head round in frontal view. Gena in dorsal view slightly narrower than in T. panzeri (Dufour) . Galea 1.5 × as long as scape. First article of labial palpus about as long as scape.</p><p>Appressed silvery pilosity concealing integument on pronotal collar, sparse and not concealing integument on remaining thorax and propodeum (scutum anterolaterally without conspicuous appressed pilosity). Setae of postocellar area as long as 0.5-0.6 × scape, those on scutum 0.4 × scape in female, 0.5 × in male; sternum II without erect setae in female, in male with erect setae posteromedially (setal length about 2.0 × midocellar diameter).</p><p>Head, thorax and propodeum black; male</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EF305675DB23FFF0147ECFF2DF70E985	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pulawski, Wojciech J.	Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2019): A Review of the Wasp Genus Tachytes Panzer, 1806 of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (7): 117-135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13156992
EF305675DB20FFF2147ECA2CDCD7ECBC.text	EF305675DB20FFF2147ECA2CDCD7ECBC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tachytes indifferens Arnold	<div><p>Tachytes indifferens Arnold</p><p>Figures 21–24.</p><p>Tachytes indifferens Arnold, 1945:110, ♀, ♂. Syntypes: Madagascar: Behara, Bekily (MNHN). – Leclercq, 1960:99 (Madagascar: locality records), 1961:111 (Madagascar: locality records); R. Bohart and Menke, 1976:265 (in checklist of world Sphecidae); Leclercq, 1990:118 (Madagascar: locality records); Madl, 1997:820 (Madagascar: Nosy Boraha Island), 821 (in checklist of Nosy Boraha Sphecidae); Pulawski, 2003:798 (in checklist of Malagasy Sphecidae); Madl, 2014:986 (in catalog of Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, and Sphecidae of Madagascar, with synonymy and locality records).</p><p>RECOGNITION.— The female of T. indifferens is characterized by the uniform, minute punctures of the postocellar area, all black antenna, and ferruginous mid- and hind femora and all tibiae. In all other species the postocellar punctures are of two distinct sizes (the small punctures are absent in T. picticorni s), and the femora (except some T. argyropis) are all or largely black.</p><p>The male is unique among its Madagascan congeners in having preapical fringes of loose setae on sterna III-VI (Fig. 23); it can also be recognized by the all black antenna combined with the uniform, minute postocellar punctures. It differs from T. copiosus by much smaller scutal punctures</p><p>(Fig. 22). RECORDS (Fig. 24).— Antsiranana (= Diego Suarez) Province: Forêt d’Orangéa at 12º15’32’’S</p><p>49º22’29’’E (1 ♂, CAS), 7 km N Joffreville at 12º20’S 49º15’E (1 ♀, CAS), Parc National Montagne d’Ambre at 12º30’52’’S 49º10’53’’E (4 ♀, 5 ♂, CAS), 12º31’13’’S 49º10’45’’E (1 ♀, 1 ♂, CAS), and 12º31’S 49º11’E (1 ♀, CAS), 1 km W Sakalava Beach at 12º15’59’’S 49º23’42’’E (2 ♀, 2 ♂, CAS), 3 km W Sakalava Beach at 12º17’10’’S 49º22’00’’E (2 ♀, 1 ♂, CAS). Fianarantsoa Province: Ambinany 7 km W Manombo (1 ♀, CAS), Forêt d’Ampitavananima at 23º7.79’S 47º43.02’E (4 ♀, CAS), Ihosy (Leclercq, 1990), Isalo National Park at 22º36’S 45º10’E (4 ♀, 14 ♂, CAS), near Isalo National Park at 22º37.60’S 45º21.49’E (3 ♂, CAS), 2 km SW Manakara at 22.168ºS 48.00°E (1 ♀, 1 ♂, CAS. Majunga Province: Ambato-Boena (Madl, 2014), Amborovy 8 km NE Majunga at 15º40’S 46º20’E (3 ♂, CAS), Ambovomamy Belambo at 15º27.07’S 47º36.80’E (16 ♀, 6 ♂, CAS), 10 km E Majunga at 15º43’S 46º25’E (1 ♀, 5 ♂, CAS). Toamasina Province: Island of Nosy Boraha (Madl, 2014), Mahavelona (Madl, 2014), near entrance to Parc National d’Andasibe at 18º55’58’’S 48º24’47’’E (1 ♀, CAS), Toamasina at 18º07’S 49º24’E (1 ♂, CAS). Toliara Province: 22 km E Ampanihy at 24º41’S 44º46’E (1 ♂, CAS), Behara (Arnold, 1945), Bekily (Arnold, 1945), 2 km N Betioky at 23º21’S 44º20’E (2 ♂, CAS), Beza Mahfaly Reserve at 23º41.19’S 44º35.46’E (1 ♀, 1 ♂, CAS), Parc National d’Andohahela at 24º56.21’S 46°37.60’E (2 ♀, CAS), Réserve Privée Berenty at 24º57’25’’S 46º16’17’’E (1 ♀, CAS), 25º00’S 46º18’E (12 ♂, CAS), 25º00’40’’S 46º18’20’’E (5 ♀, CAS), 38 km E Sakaraha at 22º46’S 44º51’E (3 ♂, CAS), Taolagnaro (Leclercq, 1960, 1990, as Fort Dauphin), Toliara (Leclercq, 1990, as Tuléar), 10 km NE Toliara at 23º18’S 43º45’E (13 ♂, CAS), and 12 km SE Toliara at 23º25’S 43º45’E (2 ♀, 21 ♂, CAS).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EF305675DB20FFF2147ECA2CDCD7ECBC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pulawski, Wojciech J.	Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2019): A Review of the Wasp Genus Tachytes Panzer, 1806 of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (7): 117-135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13156992
EF305675DB26FFF4147ECA3CD995EC9C.text	EF305675DB26FFF4147ECA3CD995EC9C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tachytes melanogaster Pulawski 2019	<div><p>Tachytes melanogaster Pulawski, species nova</p><p>Figures 26–29. NAME DERIVATION.— Melanogaster is derived from two Greek words: μελανός (black, dark)</p><p>and γαστήρ (gaster); with reference to the presence of black setae only on this species terga I-V.</p><p>RECOGNITION.— Only the female of this species is known. Unlike all other Madagascan species, and like T. nigropilosellus (Cameron) and T. nudiventris Turner from the continental Africa, T. melanogaster has the setae of terga I-V all black (Fig. 27) and directed posteriorly (rather that all golden or silvery on apical depression and diverging posteriorly on the apical depressions of at least terga IV and V). Unlike these two species, the female of T. melanogaster has five rather than six rake spines on the forebasitarsus and the setae of the pygidial plate (Fig. 28) cupreous (rather than black). The postocellar punctures in T. melanogaster are mainly large and sparse, intermixed with smaller and denser punctures (Fig. 26), whereas in T. nudiventris the fine punctures are absent and only the larger, sparse punctures are present (Fig. 25); also, the wing veins are light brown in T. melanogaster, but the costal and subcostal veins are black in T. nudiventris . T. nigropilosellus differs conspicuously in having the erect setae of the head, thorax, and propodeum black (rather than silvery), the wings deep black with violet shimmer (rather than nearly hyaline, with yellow tinge), and by its much larger size (the female length is 23-30 mm, while 14.5-15.0 mm in T. melanogaster).</p><p>DESCRIPTION.— ♀. Head nearly round in front view; minimum interocular distance equal to 0.32-0.34 of the clypeal width and to 1.4 ×of dorsal length of flagellomere I; the latter 2.3-2.4 × apical width. Postocellar punctures mainly large, sparse, intermixed with smaller and denser punctures (Fig. 26). Gena narrow in dorsal view, narrower than in T. panzeri . Sternum II minutely, closely punctate throughout except narrowly impunctate apicomesally in one specimen. Forebasitarsus with five rake spines.</p><p>Pronotal collar posteriorly with appressed silvery setae, remaining thorax and propodeum without such setae. Setae of postocellar area about as long as 0.5 × scape; scutum anterolaterally without conspicuous appressed pilosity; scutal setae about as long as 0.4 × scape; sternum II anterolaterally with sparse, inconspicuous erect setae whose length is up to about 2 × midocellar width; longest setae of hindfemoral venter equal to about 0.4 × hindfemur greatest width. Setae of terga I-V all black and directed posteriorly; setae of pygidial plate cupreous (Fig. 28).</p><p>Head, thorax, and gaster all black; scape ferruginous (except partly or all black dorsally), fla-</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EF305675DB26FFF4147ECA3CD995EC9C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pulawski, Wojciech J.	Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2019): A Review of the Wasp Genus Tachytes Panzer, 1806 of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (7): 117-135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13156992
EF305675DB24FFF7147ECA29D996EC87.text	EF305675DB24FFF7147ECA29D996EC87.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tachytes picticornis Arnold	<div><p>Tachytes picticornis Arnold</p><p>Figures 30 –32.</p><p>Tachytes picticornis Arnold, 1945:111, ♀, ♂. Lectotype: ♂, Madagascar: Bekily (MNHN), present designation. – R. Bohart and Menke, 1976:266 (in checklist of world Sphecidae); Leclercq, 1990:118 (Madagascar: locality records); Pulawski, 2003:798 (in checklist of Malagasy Sphecidae); Madl, 2014:987 (in catalog of Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, and Sphecidae of Madagascar, with synonymy and locality records).</p><p>LECTOTYPE SELECTION.— Through the kindness of Madame Claire Villemant of the MNHN, I received for examination in 2009 a pair of Arnold’s syntypes of Tachytes picticornis, both collected at Bekily, Madagascar. I have selected the male as the lectotype, and the female as a paralectotype.</p><p>RECOGNITION.— Like most Tachytes melanogaster, the female of T. picticornis has the apical depressions of sterna II-V finely punctate. Also, it has the postocellar punctures large, without micropunctures there (Fig. 30). In the other species the depression of sternum II is impunctate mesally (only next to posterior margin in some T. rufomarginatus), the depressions of sterna III-V</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EF305675DB24FFF7147ECA29D996EC87	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pulawski, Wojciech J.	Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2019): A Review of the Wasp Genus Tachytes Panzer, 1806 of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (7): 117-135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13156992
EF305675DB3AFFE8147ECFF2DF31EB0E.text	EF305675DB3AFFE8147ECFF2DF31EB0E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tachytes rufomarginatus Arnold	<div><p>Tachytes rufomarginatus Arnold</p><p>Figures 33–34. Tachytes rufomarginatus Arnold, 1945:109, ♀, ♂</p><p>(as rufomarginata, incorrect original termination). Syntypes: Madagascar: Bekily (MNHN) .</p><p>– As Tachytes rufomarginatus: R. Bohart and</p><p>Menke, 1976:266 (in checklist of world Sphecidae); Nilsson, Jonsson, Rason, and Randrianjohany, 1986:412 (Madagascar: Toamasina:</p><p>4 km S Mahavelona, as Foulpointe, as rufomarginata); Pulawski, 2003:798 (in checklist of Malagasy Sphecidae); Madl, 2014:987 (in catalog of Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, and</p><p>Sphecidae of Madagascar, with synonymy and locality records).</p><p>RECOGNITION.— The galea of T. rufomar- Figure 33. Tachytes rufomarginatus Arnold. ginatus is slightly shorter than wide and terga Anterodorsal part of thorax showing ill-defined patch of appressed, silvery setae. I-III (I-IV in some specimens) are silvery fasciate apically. The female differs from similar species ( T. copiosus, T. flavocinereus, T. indifferens, and T. picticornis) in having an ill-defined (almost absent) patch of silvery, appressed setae anterolaterally on the scutum (Fig. 33); the patch is well defined in the other species (e.g., Fig. 14).The males and most females differ from them by a partly reddish gaster, especially the apical segments. In the four other species, the gaster is all black. Subsidiary recognition features of T. rufomarginatus are: the scape all or predominantly ferrugineus, and in the male a partly reddish brown flagellum. RECORDS (Fig. 34).— Antsiranana (=</p><p>Diego Suarez) Province: Montagne des</p><p>Français at 12º18’8’’S 49º38’51’’E (1 ♀,</p><p>CAS), Sakalava Beach at 12º15’46’’S</p><p>49º23’51’’E (1 ♀, CAS), 3 km W Sakalava</p><p>Beach at 12º17.17’S 49º22.00’E (1 ♂, CAS) .</p><p>Fianarantsoa Province: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=47.717&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-23.129833" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 47.717/lat -23.129833)">Forêt d’Ampitavananima</a> at 23º7.79’S 47º43.02’E (1 ♀, CAS) ,</p><p>near Isalo National Park at 22º37.60’S</p><p>45º21.49’E (3 ♀, 13 ♂, CAS), Réserve Spé-</p><p>ciale Manombo at 23º01.31’S 47º43.20’E (2 ♀,</p><p>1 ♂, CAS). Majunga Province: Ambovomamy</p><p>Belambo at 15º27.07’S 47º36.80’E (1 ♀,</p><p>CAS), Forêt d’Analamanitra at 16º8’S 45º42’E</p><p>(2 ♀, CAS). Toamasina Province: Forêt</p><p>FIGURE 34. Collecting localities of Tachytes rufmargind’Analava Mandrisy at 16º29’08’’S atus Arnold.</p><p>49º50’49’’E (1 ♀, CAS), 4 km S Mahavelona (Nilsson, Jonsson, Rason, and Randrianjohany, 1986, as Foulpointe). Toliara Province: Bekily (Arnold, 1945), Parc National d’Andohahela at 24º56.21’S 46.37.60’E (3 ♀, 2 ♂, CAS).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EF305675DB3AFFE8147ECFF2DF31EB0E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pulawski, Wojciech J.	Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2019): A Review of the Wasp Genus Tachytes Panzer, 1806 of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (7): 117-135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13156992
EF305675DB3BFFE8147ECEA4D910EEE1.text	EF305675DB3BFFE8147ECEA4D910EEE1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tachytes oviventris de Saussure 1891	<div><p>Tachytes oviventris de Saussure</p><p>Tachytes oviventris de Saussure, 1891:260, ♀. Holotype or syntypes: ♀, Madagascar: no specific locality (originally A. von Schulthess collection, now destroyed). – de Saussure, 1892:478 (Madagascar, redescription); Dalla Torre, 1897:693 (in catalog of world Hymenoptera); Arnold, 1945:109 (unrecognizable species); R. Bohart and Menke, 1976:266 (in checklist of world Sphecidae); Pulawski, 2003:798 (in checklist of Malagasy Sphecidae); Madl, 2014:987 (in catalog of Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, and Sphecidae of Madagascar, with synonymy and locality records).</p><p>Tachytes oviventris de Saussure, 1892:478, ♀. Objective synonym of Tachytes oviventris de Saussure, 1891 .</p><p>DISCUSSION OF SPECIES IDENTITY.–The species was described rather concisely in 1891, in Latin only. In 1882, de Saussure repeated the Latin diagnosis almost verbatim, but provided a much more detailed description in French. Arnold (1945) commented about its unusual gaster coloration (he was not able to recognize the species). Indeed, the 1892 description mentions three characters unusual for a Tachytes: the gaster with bluish reflexes (abdomine coerulescente in Latin, abdomen … brilliant de reflets bleuâtres et pourprés in the French text), the postscutellum somewhat reddish mesally (postécusson un peu roux au milieu), and the recurrent veins attaining the 2 nd submarginal cell very close to each other (très près l’une de l’autre). Evidently, none of the Madagascan Tachytes show this unusual character combination, and it is unclear, what other genus might be involved. Unfortunately, the holotype seems to be lost. De Saussure (1892) said that the specimen belonged to A. von Schulthess, whose collection is now housed in the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland. Ms. Franziska Schmid of that institution wrote the following on 23 June 2009:</p><p>“Unfortunately I only found two types of Tachytes argyropis from Madagascar in the Schulthess collection. Because the Schulthess collection had passed a serious pest damage about 50 years ago, the individuals of Tachytes oviventris might have been lost”.</p><p>As Monsieur Bernard Landry kindly informed me (his e-mail of 13 September 2018), no specimen of T. oviventris can be found in de Saussure’s collection in the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève, Switzerland, either. In conclusion, the species identity remains a mystery .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EF305675DB3BFFE8147ECEA4D910EEE1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pulawski, Wojciech J.	Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2019): A Review of the Wasp Genus Tachytes Panzer, 1806 of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (7): 117-135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13156992
