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Corrigenda: Tan J-L, Carpenter JM, van Achterberg C (2018) An illustrated key to the genera of Eumeninae from China, with a checklist of species (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). ZooKeys 740: 109–149. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.740.22654
expand article infoJiang-Li Tan, James M. Carpenter§, Cornelis van Achterberg
‡ Northwest University, Xi'an, China
§ American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States of America
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In our recently published illustrated key to the genera and checklist of the species of Chinese Eumeninae, we overlooked the paper by Kurzenko (1977). This was part of a series on the Insects of Mongolia, and contains important distributional information about Eumeninae in China. It was kindly brought to our attention by Dr A.V. Fateryga and we are glad to correct the omissions here and are grateful to use some additional comments by Dr Fateryga.

The following couplets should be changed or added to accommodate two missing genera:

23 Tergum I with two transverse carinae (23a) or with one (23a’) 24A
Tergum I without transverse carinae (23aa) 27
24A Propodeal dorsum without extending horizontal area (24Aa) 24
Propodeal dorsum extending horizontally, forming shelf-like area behind metanotum (24Aaa). [pretegular carina present] 25
24 Tegula densely punctate, sieve-like, surpassing parategula posteriorly (24a); pretegular carina absent (24b); pronotal anterior carina complete laterally, humeri angular or pointed (24c); carina of tergum I at anterior narrow part of tergum [and carina indistinct in some species] (24d) Jucancistrocerus Blüthgen
Tegula usually finely punctate (24aa); pretegular carina present (24bb); pronotal anterior carina partly absent laterally, humeri rounded (24cc); carina of tergum I at about middle of tergum (24dd) Stenancistrocerus de Saussure
46 Metanotum between horizontal and vertical area with hemi-circular carina (46a) Antodynerus de Saussure
Metanotum between areas without hemi-circular shaped carina (46aa) 46A
46A Body mainly yellow with few black spots; pronotum anterior vertical plane usually without hyaline carina, with its anterior face densely punctate laterally (46Aa); cephalic fovea remaining far from occipital carina (46Ab) Chlorodynerus Blüthgen
Body mainly black with yellow patches; pronotum anterior vertical plane with hyaline carina, with its anterior face sparsely punctate laterally (46Aaa); cephalic foveae close to occipital carina (46Abb) Euodynerus Dalla Torre
Figure 24a. 

Mesosoma in dorsal view (a, aa). aJucancistrocerus (Eremodynerus) atrofasciatus (Morawitz) aa Pseudonortonia abbreviaticornis Giordani Soika.

Figure 24. 

Mesosoma in lateral view (c b, cc, and bb) and in dorsal view (a, aa), tergum I in dorsal (d, dd). a-d.Jucancistrocerus (Eremodynerus) atrofasciatus (Morawitz); aa-dd. Stenancistrocerus alluaudi (Dusmet).

Figure 46a. 

Pronotum anterior vertical plane (a, aa), head in dorsal view (b, bb). a-b. Chlorodynerus diglaensis (Blüthgen) aa-bb. Euodynerus sp.

The following species and subspecies should be added to the checklist. The omitted genera are Cholordynerus and Stenancistrocerus.

[Ancistrocerus Wesmael, 1836]

Ancistrocerus oviventris oviventrus (Wesmael, 1836)

Ancistrocerus raddei (Kostylev, 1940)

Ancistrocerus scoticus scoticus (Curtis, 1826)

Ancistrocerus tenellus (Kostylev, 1935)

[Antepipona de Saussure, 1855]

Antepipona tylocifica Kurzenko, 1977

Chlorodynerus Blüthgen, 1951

Chlorodynerus Blüthgen, 1951, Boll. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 81: 67 (key), 75. Type species: Odynerus chloroticus Spinola, 1838, by original designation.

Chlorodynerus arenicolus (Kostylev, 1935)

[Eumenes Latreille, 1802]

Eumenes coarctatus ordubadensis Blüthgen, 1938

Eumenes mongolicus Morawitz, 1889

[Euodynerus Dalla Torre, 1904]

Euodynerus (Euodynerus) dantici dantici (Rossi, 1790)

Euodynerus (Euodynerus) semisaecularis macedonicus Blüthgen, 1951

[Katamenes Meade-Waldo, 1910]

Katamenes radoszkovskii Blüthgen, 1962 (fide Dr A.V. Fateryga: probably a synonym of K. dimidiatus montanus (Nurse, 1904))

Katamenes sichelii fulvus (Eversmann, 1854)

[Leptochilus de Saussure, 1853]

Leptochilus (Lionotulus) habyrganus Kurzenko, 1977

Leptochilus (Lionotulus) kozlovi Kurzenko, 1977

[Onychopterocheilus Blüthgen, 1955]

Onychopterocheilus (Ghilarocheilus) turovi (Kostylev, 1937)

[Pseudepipona de Saussure, 1856]

Pseudepipona (Deuterepipona) herzi kozlovi (Kostylev, 1937)

Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) herrichii mongolica Giordani Soika, 1970

Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) kozhevnikovi (Kostylev, 1927)

Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) tricarinata (Kokujev, 1912)

Note. The species listed in the checklist belong all to the subgenus Pseudepipona de Saussure.

[Pterocheilus Klug, 1805]

Pterocheilus (Pterocheilus) heptneri Kostylev, 1940

Pterocheilus (Pterocheilus) mandibularis Morawitz, 1889

Pterocheilus (Pterocheilus) quaesitus (Morawitz, 1895)

Pterocheilus (Pterocheilus) sibiricus sibiricus (Morawitz, 1867)

Stenancistrocerus de Saussure, 1863

Stenancistrocerus de Saussure, 1863, Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève 17 (1): 216. Type species: Odynerus atropos Lepeletier, 1841.

Stenancistrocerus (Paratropancistrocerus) transcaspicus (Kostylev, 1935)

[Symmorphus Wesmael, 1836]

Symmorphus allobrogus (de Saussure, 1855) (Dr A.V. Fateryga in litt.: reported as S. bifasciatus in Kurzenko (1977); true S. bifasciatus was reported as S. mutinensis)

Symmorphus crassicornis (Panzer, 1798)

Correction (by Dr A.V. Fateryga):

Brachyodynerus perrarus (not “perarrus”) Kurzenko, 1977

Acknowledgement

We thank Dr Alexander V. Fateryga (Feodosiya, Crimea) for his extremely kind support in improving our key and checklist of the Chinese Eumeninae.

Reference

  • Kurzenko NV (1977) Eumenid wasps (Hymenoptera, Eumenidae) of the Mogolian People’s Republic and adjacent regions of China and Southern Siberia. Nasekomye Mongolii [Insects of Mongolia] 5: 537–582. [In Russian]
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