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Mutillid wasps of the Italian minor islands 229

d’Italia” (Invrea, 1964). The same author produced also accurate faunal studies of Lampe-
dusa (Invrea, 1957b; 1958; 1962), based on the material collected by E. Zavattari during
his biogeographical investigations of the Pelagie islands carried out in the late 1950’s.
One of these papers contained the description of a new species, Smicromyrme lampe-
dusia Invrea, known only upon the female sex. The Mutillid wasps of this island were
investigated once more by Arnone & Romano (1995), who revised some previous iden-
tifications and recorded on the whole twelve species, including four taxa which in Italy
occur only on Lampedusa and on other Sicily Channel islands. Finally, new data were
provided by Petersen (1988), Matteini Palmerini (1992), Lo Cascio et al. (1998), Tur-
risi (1999), Canovai et al. (2000), Pagliano (2003), and Romano (in press). So far there
are no records for the Tremiti and Pontine archipelagos.

GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING

A map showing the locations of thirty-one Italian minor islands is given in fig. 1.
In order to be easily located, the islands were included in nine main geographical groups
and listed in a North-South latitudinal succession. Geographical and faunal data for each
island are provided in Table 1.

SPECIES LIST

Krombeinella thoracica (Fabricius, 1793)
EXAMINED MATERIAL. Sant’Antioco: 2 , Rio Triga, X.1999, L. Fancello (PL).

qq

Myrmosa atra Panzer, 1801
EXAMINED MATERIAL. Elba: 1 , surrounding of Chiessi, 12.VII.1997, P. Lo Cascio and V. Pan-

Ø
cioli (PL).

Paramyrmosa brunnipes (Lepeletier, 1845)
Myrmosa cognata Costa, 1858; Mantero, 1909: 65 (Asinara).
Myrmosa (Myrmosa) brunnipes; Invrea, 1952a: 12 (Asinara).

EXAMINED MATERIAL. None.

Blakeius chiesi chiesi (Spinola, 1839)
Myrmilla Chiesii; Mantero, 1909: 66 (Asinara); Invrea, 1955b: 104 (Asinara).

EXAMINED MATERIAL. Sant’Antioco: 35 , 31 , 5-28.VII.1987, R. Mourglia (MR); 1 ,
ØØ qq q

8.VIII.1988, P. Leo (MR).

NOTES. This subspecies seems to occur only in the Corsican-Sardinian area. A record
from Malta (Valletta, 1971) should be probably referred to one of the subspecies known
for the Sicilian area or, as suggested by Schembri (1983), to a misidentification of Blakeius
leopoldinus (Invrea, 1955).