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SHORT COMMUNICATION Yu. N. Danilov. FIRST RECORD OF THE DIGGER WASP LARRA ANATHEMA (ROSSI, 1790) (HYMENOPTERA: CRABRONIDAE) FROM THE ASIAN PART OF RUSSIA. – Far Eastern Entomologist. 2010. N 205: 20. Ю.Н. Данилов. Первое указание роющей осы Larra anathema (Rossi, 1790) (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) из азиатской части России // Дальне- восточный энтомолог. 2010. N 205. C. 20. Until now genus Larra Fabricius, 1793 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) was unknown in Asian part of Russia [1]. Herein one species of this genus firstly recorded from West Siberia. Larra anathema (Rossi, 1790) MATERIAL. Russia: Novosibirskaya oblast, Karasukskii raion, 5 km E Troitskoe, 11.VIII 1992, 1 (V.K. Zinchenko). DISTIBUTION. Russia: south of European part, West Siberia (first record). – Grate Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Malta, Greece, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakh- stan, China (Hopei Province), Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt. NOTES. This digger wasp does not build the burrows. The preys are paralyzed temporary. L. anathema hunts on mole crickets, in the south part of West Siberia probably on Gryllotalpa unispina Saussure, 1874. 1. Nemkov, P.G. 2009. Annotated catalogue of digger wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Crabronidae) of Asian part of Russia. Dalnauka, Vladivostok. 194 p. (In Russian). Author’s address: Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630091, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Far Eastern entomologist (Far East. entomol.) Journal published since October 1994. Editor-in-Chief: S.Yu. Storozhenko Editorial Board: A.S. Lelej, V.S. Sidorenko, N.V. Kurzenko, P.G. Nemkov Address: Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 690022, Vladivostok-22, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] web-site: http://www.biosoil.ru/fee .

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