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Mutillid wasps of the Italian minor islands 237

Smicromyrme ingauna Invrea, 1958

EXAMINED MATERIAL. Lipari: 1 , Cappero, VIII.1995, P. Lo Cascio (PL); 1 , 7 , Vallone
q Ø qq

Muria, VII-VIII.1996, 3.VI.1997, P. Lo Cascio (PL). Vulcano: 1 , 4 , Monte Lentia,
Ø qq

4.VI.1997, P. Lo Cascio (PL); 3 qq, Gran Cratere, 4.VI.1997, 22.VI.1998, P. Lo Cascio et al.
(PL); 1 , Piano, 23.V.2000, P. Lo Cascio and C. Moreno Camacho (PL).

q

NOTES. This species has been quoted for the following Italian regions: Liguria, Calabria
(Invrea, 1958; 1964), Emilia-Romagna, Basilicata (Matteini Palmerini, 1992), Latium
(Pagliano, 1997), Tuscany (Lo Cascio et al., 1998), and Sicily (Arnone & Romano, 1998).
A record for Romania, quoted by Nagy (1968), needs to be confirmed. Recently, Tur-
risi (1999) considered S. varinella Invrea, 1960 as the complementary sex of S. ingauna.
The occurrence of both on Lipari and Vulcano islands could confirm this hypothesis.
S. ingauna shows a wide range of variability: females from Sicily and Aeolian Islands
are frequently characterised by reddish vertex, dense dark pubescence on the anterior
part of the thorax, evident and well definite scutellar scale.

Smicromyrme prope melanolepis (Costa, 1884)

EXAMINED MATERIAL. Lipari: 1 , Vallone Muria, VII.1995, P. Lo Cascio (PL).
Ø

NOTES. This species, for which only males are known, results to be distributed exclu-
sively in Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. The specimen collected on Lipari Island shows
some morphological differences from the typical characters of the species. For this rea-
son, we prefer to report it as “prope melanolepis”, awaiting other material that can allow
a better identification of the Lipari population.

Smicromyrme partita (Klug, 1835) sensu lato

EXAMINED MATERIAL. Lipari: 9 , Vallone Muria, VII.1995, VII-VIII.1996, 14.X.1996, 3.VI.1997,
qq

P. Lo Cascio (PL); 2 , Timpone Ricotta, 4.X.1997, P. Lo Cascio and C. Beltrametti (PL).
qq

NOTES. Smicromyrme partita ssp. fasciaticollis (Spinola, 1843), occurring on Sicily and
Lampedusa islands, was considered by Turrisi (1999) as a separate species from Smi-
cromyrme partita. As previously discussed, the taxon fasciaticollis differs from the latter
by several characters, which are easily recognisable only in males. Since only females
have been found so far on Lipari, which lies in a transitional area between Sicily and
the Italian Peninsula (where S. partita lives), the specific identity of this population is
yet uncertain. For these reasons, at present, we prefer to report the specimens from Li-
pari as S. partita “sensu lato”, waiting that the examination of males makes the identity
of this population clear.

Smicromyrme sp. pl.

NOTES. Some specimens of the genus Smicromyrme, probably belonging to four differ-
ent taxa whose identification needs further examination, were collected on two
circumsicilian islands (Lampedusa and Marettimo). One female and two males from