Pseudomalus violaceus Scopoli

• Main Authors: Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas, Ødegaard, Frode
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Chrysididae; Pseudomalus; Pseudomalus violaceus; Norway; Saarinen; Fennoscandia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5589823; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5589823

10. Pseudomalus violaceus (Scopoli, 1763) Sphex violacea Scopoli 1763: 298. Type?; Europe (lost). Chrysis micans Olivier 1791: 677. Type?; Sweden (Mus.?). Chrysis fuscipennis Dahlbom 1829: 15. Syntypes; Sweden (ZMUL) (examined). Zetterstedt 1840: 434. Chrysis coerulea Dahlbom 1831: 33 [part., C. coerulea var. a.] Syntypes ♀ ♂; Sweden (ZMUL). Kawall 1866b: 159. Omalus coeruleus: Dahlbom 1854: 34, Thomson 1870: 103, Siebke 1880: 73, Nerén 1892: 112, Borries 1897: 97, Strand 1898: 96 (as O. coeruleis). Elampus violaceus: Aurivillius 1911: 6, Frey 1921: 207, Lindberg 1921: 9. Ellampus violaceus: Hellén 1920: 208, Berland & Bernard 1938: 37. Omalus violaceus: Borries 1891: 91, Trautmann 1927: 33, Jansson 1934: 287, Hellén 1935: 8, Nordman 1942: 134, Benno 1950: 26, Balthasar 1954: 87, Frey 1957: 160, Valkeila 1962: 63, Tumšs & Maršakovs 1970: 90, Erlandsson 1971: 88, Vikberg 1986b: 67, Hedström 1987: 156, Nilsson 1991: 82, Cederberg 2000: 178, Söderman & Vikberg 2003: 44, Mukkala et al. 2005: 6, Kalniņš et al. 2007: 142, Allearter.dk 2010, Jantunen & Saarinen 2010: 49, Appelqvist & Lindholm 2012: 16. Pseudomalus violaceus: Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 270, Soon 2004: 20, 45, Karlsson 2008, Artsdatabanken 2010, Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 147, Paukkunen 2010: 543, Ødegaard et al. 2011: 64, Hallin 2012, Rosa & Soon 2012, Dyntaxa 2013, Johansson, in press. Distribution: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden.—Transpalearctic. Europe, Middle East, Siberia, Manchuria (Linsenmaier 1997). Remarks. The species has been found in all Nordic and Baltic countries, but not in Russian Fennoscandia. In Finland it is rare and has been classified as near threatened (Paukkunen 2010). Also in Sweden the species is considered to be uncommon and has previously been red listed (Cederberg 2000). Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries ...