Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 69. (Budapest 1977)

Tsuneki, K.: H. Sauter's Sphecidae from Formosa in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Hymenoptera)

H. Sauter's Sphecidae from Formosa in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Hymenoptera) by K. TSUNEKT, Mishima Abstract — The Sphecid material from Formosa, preserved in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Bidip3sb), consists of 585 spacimans comprising 75 species in which are included the following seven new taxa: Bembecinus paiwanus sp. n., Alysson takasago sp. n., Trypoxylon taihorinsho sp. n., Lestica (Solenius) formosana sp. n., Lestica (Solenius) fulvipes sp. n., Rhopalum (Latrorhopalum) sauteri sp. n., and Crossocerus (Acanthocrabro) krusemani sauteri ssp. n. The hitherto unknown sexes of the following taxa are described: Cerceris trichobunda STRAND ( çf), Trypoxylon tainanense STRAND (çf), Trypoxylon takasago TSUNEKI (^f), Trypoxylon fenchihuense TSTJNEKI ( Çj), Crossocerus (Ornicrabro) /Zavissimws LECLERCQ ( -f)&ndPsenulus ornatuspempuchiensisTsrjN'EKi( Ç ). One aberration each of Trypoxylon takasago TSUNEKI and of Trypoxylon obsonator SMITH is also described. The Formosan race of Liris japonica (KOHL) is identified with Liris mamZae(ASMEAD)and thisisplaced under Liris japonica as a subspecies. Tachysphex tinctipennis CAMERON (1904) is sunk to a subspecies of Tachysphex nigricolor DALLA TORRE ( 1897). Ectemnius (Cameronitus) bogorensis LECLERCQ is recorded for the first time from Formosa. With 86 figures. Through the courtesy of DR. J. PAPP, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, I have had a good opportunity to investigate the specimens of Sphecidae from various regions of the Asiatic Continent and the adjacent Islands preserved in the Museum. Among them are included the specimens from Formosa collected by H. SAUTER which are so rich that it is determined to treat them separately from the others. The Formosan Sphecidae collected by H. SAUTER in the early years of this century and preserved in various Museums of Europe and America have partly been studied by H. BISCHOFF (1918), E.STRAND (1913a, 1913b, 1915, 1922-23), J. GINER MARI ( 1943), J. LECLERCQ (1951, 1963, 1972, 1973), J. VAN DER VECHT & F. M. A. VAN BREUGEL (1968) and J. P. VAN LITH (1968, 1972), of which the studies of E. STRAND based on the collection of Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (Eberswalde) are most comprehensive. On the other hand, the Sphecidae occurring in Formosa have comparatively well been studied by some authors, besides those mentioned above, such as S. A. ROWER (1911), S. MATSUMURA (1912), J. SONAN (1925-1942), M. YENO (1932), K. YASUMATSU (19351962), V. S. L. PATE (1944) and myself (1959-1973) on the basis of the material from other sources. It is, therefore, worthy of special mention that some new taxa are discovered among the specimens of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, especially because they are collected in the lowland districts, since it is believed that the members of the family of the Island except for those of the off-limitted high mount ainregions have fairly sufficiently been studied. The specimens are also of interest in presenting data for the comparison of the old fauna with the present one investigated recently by me, because there was a period of thorough-going control of the pest insects through airplane dusting of BHC powder just after World War II. In fact, the material, though derived from the lowland areas, includes a considerable number of species that are found at present in the highland alone where the postwar pest-control was not so severely carried out. In the list of the species which follows the references to each species are confined, as a rule, to those rlating to Formosa. The reference with an asterisk includes the list of refe-