Jugurtia jemenensis Kostylev, 1935

Fateryga, Alexander V., 2025, Type specimens of the pollen wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Masarinae) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Zoological Museum of the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Zootaxa 5632 (2), pp. 201-242 : 224

Jugurtia jemenensis Kostylev

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Jugurtia jemenensis Kostylev, 1935: 99 , ♀ (type locality: “Jemen, Sanaa ” [ Yemen]).

Type material. LECTOTYPE (DESIGNATED HERE): ♀, labeled “[golden disc] // Иемен [ Yemen] 1931 / Санаа [Sanaa] 9 X / ЖенжУрист [ Zhenzhurist ] // Jugurtia ♀ / jemenensis n. sp / G. Kostylev det. 1932 // Jugurtia ♀ / jemenensis Kost / G. Kostylev det / 1941 23 VI [Kostylev’s signature] // МОсКва / ЗООЛОГичесКий / МУЗей МГУ [Moscow, Zoological Museum MSU] // Lectotype ♀ / Jugurtia jemenensis / Kostylev, 1935 / des. Fateryga, 2024 [red label]” [ ZMMU]. PARALECTOTYPES: YEMEN: Sanaa, 9.X.1931, 2 ♀, leg. N. Zhenzhurist [ ZMMU].

Current status. Valid ( Carpenter 2001; Schmid-Egger 2017).

Remarks. Kostylev (1935) reported four females collected in Sanaa on 9.X.1931 by Jenjourist [N. Zhenzhurist]; three of them are available and that with a golden disc is designated here as the lectotype (two remaining specimens are with silver discs and without an additional label with Kostylev’s signature from 1941).

Figures

FIGURE 19. Jugurtia jemenensis Kostylev, 1935, ♀, lectotype. A, habitus in dorsal view; B, habitus in lateral view; C, head in frontal view; D, labels. Scale bars 1 mm.