Curt Schrottky was one the early European entomologists to reside in South America. Caught in the midst of personal and political conflicts, he still amazed to propose 593 new names in Hymenoptera (from sawflies to bees), Diptera (black flies, Simuliidae) and Lepidoptera (tiger moths, Arctiidae) between 1901 and 1922. Many of his primary types (syntypes and holotypes) were originally in his private collection, which were partially destroyed, and the remaining part scattered among multiple institutions. Other type specimens were exchanged before the destruction of his main collection to institutions in South America, USA, and Europe. The present catalog provides a complete list of the taxa proposed by Schrottky, including a bibliography of his 86 entomological publications. The catalog also lists all valid names proposed by Schrottky with details on the nomenclature, sex, type locality, and type repository for 126 known surviving types, representing 23% of all species-group taxa proposed by Schrottky. The remaining types (77%) are most likely lost. A brief biography is followed by a discussion of where to locate and how to treat original types and neotypes of Schrottky.
ABSTRACT. The differences between Pseudodynerus auratoides (Bertoni, 1918) and Pseudodynerus serratus (Fox, 1902) are established. Lectotypes of Stenodynerus mondaiensis Bertoni, 1918 and Stenodynerus auratoides Bertoni, 1918 are designated. Pseudodynerus penicillatus (Zavattari, 1912) is redescribed and newly raised from synonymy under P. serratus (Fox, 1902 Among the Neotropical Vespidae, one of the most common mimicry complexes is the one that follows the epiponine Brachygastra lecheguana (Latreille, 1824) coloration pattern. GARCETE-BARRETT (1999) provided a partial list of eight species of the subfamily Eumeninae from Paraguay that belong to this complex, including P. serratus (Fox, 1902) and P. auratoides (Bertoni, 1918), which are distinguished by the shape of the metanotum, according BERTONI (1918a) and BEQUAERT (1941).The material examined is from Bertoni's collection, currently deposited at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay, from the American Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. In addition, some specimens recently collected in Paraguay and Southern Brazil were studied, showing no significant differences between these two species regarding the shape of the metanotum. However, other well-marked and constant structural differences allow ready separation of these two species.Odynerus penicillatus Zavattari, 1912 was described based on a single female from French Guiana, and reduced to a variety (recently treated as synonymy) of P. serratus by BEQUAERT (1941) (also new generic placement by Bequaert). However, this author did not examined the primary type of O. penicillatus, basing the synonymy only on Zavattari's original description. Some taxonomic notes on this taxon are presented herein, and P. penicillatus is newly raised from synonymy under P.
The Neotropical fauna of pollen wasps is not rich in species, with 23 species described. But it is noteworthy for phylogenetic diversity, having one of the two tribes of Masarinae endemic, the Gayellini, with two genera, while the other tribe, Masarini, is represented by two endemic genera that are not each other's closest relative (Carpenter 1993). Most of the species were described during the last century, and there has been recent taxonomic work on each part of the fauna (Carpenter 1989, on Gayellini; Garcete-Barrett and Carpenter 2000, on the genus Ceramiopsis; and Carpenter 2001 and Hermes and Melo 2006, on Trimeria). There has also been recent work on the behavioral ecology of several species, and numerous floral records have been published. We bring together all of this literature here.The arrangement of the catalog is alphabetical. Each species is followed by the original citation and then by synonyms and subsequent combinations, which are listed chronologically. Other references are listed chronologically under each synonym or generic change, regardless of changes in gender or incorrect spellings (these latter are indicated in brackets, with a exclamation mark for an incorrect spelling). To facilitate ready reference, each publication is cited in abbreviated form. Where two dates are listed, the first is the true date of publication, so far as can be determined, with the date following in parentheses being the date printed on the publication. The sex of the type specimens, if stated in the description, is then listed. The original locality is quoted for each description, and the type depository is then listed in parentheses. If the sex of the holotype or lectotype is known, this is listed with the depository, except where a single sex was specified in the original description, in which case this information is not repeated. A code word is used to designate most type depositories in the checklist, typically the name of city in which the collection is located; this precedes the name Catalog of the Neotropical Masarinae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)
An identification table and descriptions are given to recognize the two species of Hypodynerus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) recorded from Brazil: H. arechavaletae (Brèthes) and H. duckei (Bertoni) comb. n. The lectotype is designated and the male is described for Hypodynerus duckei, its presence being recorded from Brazil for the first time.
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