Ellampus

Belongs within: Chrysididae.

Ellampus is a genus of small, stoutly built cuckoo wasps with the apical margin of the abdomen truncate or subtruncate and medially incised (Bingham 1903).

Characters (from Bingham 1903): Head transverse, as broad as pronotum or broader, facial cavity subtriangular, arch above narrowing distinctly, moderately deep; antennae slender, cylindrical. Thorax broad, very convex above; pronotum long or short, often shorter than mesonotum, transverse; metanotum and scutellum convex, the former sometimes gibbous anteriorly; mesopleurae convex or flat, apex beneath more or less rounded; postscutellum convex, gibbous or with a mucro at base; posterior lateral angles of median segment produced, apex acute or obtuse. Fore wing with medial cell only complete, first submedial and sometimes radial cell almost complete, generally two-thirds of apical portion of radial nervure obliterated, occasionally second submedial cell faintly outlined; nervures and cells of hind wing obsolete; legs slender, posterior tibiae not incrassate; claws of tarsi multidentate. Abdomen very convex above, base transverse, apical margin rounded at sides, truncate and incised in middle.

<==Ellampus Spin. 1806 [=Elampus; incl. Notozus Först. 1853, Omalus Dahlb. 1854]B03
    |--*E. auratusB03 [=Omalus auratusBM76; incl. E. auratus var. maculatusMS01, E. auratus var. virescensMS01]
    |--‘Omalus’ aeneusBM76
    |--E. bidentatus [=Chrysis bidentata]L49
    |--E. chlorosoma Lucas 1849E12
    |--‘Omalus’ coeruleusBM76
    |--E. constrictus [=Omalus constrictus]BM76
    |--‘Omalus’ cressoniBM76
    |--‘Omalus’ glomeratusBM76
    |--‘Omalus’ interandinusBM76
    |--‘Omalus’ intermediusBM76
    |--‘Omalus’ iridescensBM76
    |--‘Omalus’ janusBM76
    |--E. kashmirensis (Nurse 1902) [=Notozus kashmirensis]B03
    |--E. panzeri BM76 [=Chrysis (Elampus) panzeri]G20
    |--‘Omalus’ punctatusBM76
    |--‘Omalus’ purpuratusBM76
    |--‘Omalus’ pusillusBM76
    |--‘Omalus’ sinuosusBM76
    |--E. spinaBM76
    |--E. timidus Nurse 1902B03
    |--‘Omalus’ trilobatusBM76
    |--‘Omalus’ variatusBM76
    |--‘Omalus’ violaceusBM76
    `--E. viridicyaneusBM76

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B03] Bingham, C. T. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera vol. 2. Ants and Cuckoo-Wasps. Taylor and Francis: London.

[BM76] Bohart, R. M., & A. S. Menke. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World. University of California Press: Berkeley.

[E12] Evenhuis, N. L. 2012. Publication and dating of the Exploration Scientifique de l’Algérie: Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articulés (1846–1849) by Pierre Hippolyte Lucas. Zootaxa 3448: 1–61.

[G20] Goldfuss, G. A. 1820. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte vol. 3. Handbuch der Zoologie pt 1. Johann Leonhard Schrag: Nürnberg.

[L49] Lucas, H. 1849. Exploration Scientifique de l’Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du gouvernement et avec le concours d’une commission académique. Sciences physiques. Zoologie. II. Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. Troisième partie. Insectes (suite). Imprimerie Nationale: Paris.

[MS01] Mocsáry, A., & V. Szépligeti. 1901. Hymenopterák [Hymenopteren]. In: Horváth, G. (ed.) Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazása [Dritte Asiatische Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] vol. 2. Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazásának Állattani Eredményei [Zoologische Ergebnisse der Dritten Asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] pp. 121–169. Victor Hornyánszky: Budapest, and Karl W. Hierseman: Leipzig.