Notes on endemic Alpine chrysidids, with key to Alpine Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879, and remarks on two rarely collected species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)

Abstract

A detailed study of two endemic Alpine species of the genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879 is given, as well as a key to the Alpine Philoctetes species and a brief discussion on Alpine Chrysididae. New distributional data, notes on type specimens and pictures are provided. A new synonym Philoctetes putoni (du Buysson, 1892) = Philoctetes delvarei Tussac & Tussac, 1993 syn. n. is proposed.

Keywords

• Chrysididae
• Elampini
• Philoctetes
• taxonomy
• Alps