S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 55. (Budapest, 1994)

FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK LV 1994 p. 41-58 Generic synopsis of Apterogyninae (Hymenoptera: Apterogynidae) Q. Arg aman Generic synopsis of Apterogyninae (Hymenoptera: Apterogynidae). - Nomenclature of the already known three genera, Apterogyna Latreille, Gynecaptera Skorikov, Macroocula Panfilov is discussed. Four tribes (Doryleikini, Gynecapterini, Icalanticini, Pauxorculini), seven genera (Doryleika, Icalantica, Micatagla, Mutillariola, Pauxorcula, Utapitoca, Zarabaycd) and one new species {Doryleika mahunkai) are described. A key to the genera of Apterogynini, and a key to species of Doryleika are included. With 47 figures. INTRODUCTION The aculeate wasps of the family Apterogynidae Andre, 1899 are inhabiting arid and semiarid to genuine desert areas of Old World tropics. Occasionally they penetrate into temperate regions. Constituents of the subfamily Apterogyninae are distributed in the Mediterranean Basin, Balkan, Crimea, Central Asia, Indian subcontinent, and the whole Afrotropical Region. Owing to the mostly crepuscular or nocturnal habit of the males, rapid movement on the surface of the soil of the females, they are seldom captured and poorly represented in the collections. The male is fully winged, the female is entirely wingless. Abdomen is constricted both beyond the first and second tergum, conferring to them a superficial resemblance with the army-ant workers of the subfamily Dorylinae (Formicidae) and to the female velvet-ants (Mutillidae). Before this study was begun, three genera and slightly over 100 nominal taxa had been described. Added taxonomic work is desirable because the majority of the species has become portrayed in only one sex. Probably less than half of the existing taxa will remain valid after the association of the sexes. Nothing is known about their life history, habitually assumed to be cleptoparasite of ground-nesting wasps or bees. Besides, at least the members of the Neotropical subfamily Bradynobaeninae Ashmead, 1903, according to the female mandible, are certainly ectoparasites on the larvae of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera). The present work is intended to be the first of a series proposed to review and reclassify Apterogyninae. Adults appear to belong into naturally definable units (genera and tribes) through their external morphological features. The ultimate goal of this study was to correlate the distribution of character-states within the members of the subfamily as a starting point for the association of the sexes. The first attempt to establish a classification of Apterogyninae was made by Latreille (1809), he proposed Apterogyna for a new species, olivieri. The type of this species is lost. More than a century later, Skorikov (1935) added a new subgenus, Gynecaptera, for two species, whose females have yellow tegument on the abdomen. Aptero-