Celonites modestus subsp. biinterruptus Kostylev 1940

Celonites modestus biinterruptus Kostylev (Fig. 9) Celonites modestus biinterruptus Kostylev, 1940: 138, ♀ ♂ (type locality: “Ruidacht, 40 km. de Stalinabad ” [Tajikistan]). Type material. LECTOTYPE (DESIGNATED HERE): ♀, labeled “Руйдашт [Ruydasht] / 22-VII 37 / В. Гуссаковск. [V. Gussakovskij] // Celonites ♀ / modestus / biinterruptus Typ. / G Kostylev det. 1938 // к. Гуссаковского [collection of Gussakovskij] // Lectotype ♀ Celonites / modestus biinterruptus / Kostylev, 1940 / des. Fateryga, 2024 [red label] // Zoological Institute / St. Petersburg / INS_HYM_0000319 [pale yellow label]” [ZISP]. PARALECTOTYPES: TAJIKISTAN: Ruydasht, 22.VII.1937, 1 ♀, 1 ♂, leg. V. Gussakovskij [1 ♀, ZMMU; 1 ♂, ZISP]. Current status. Valid as Celonites biinterruptus Kostylev, 1940, stat. nov. Remarks. Kostylev (1940) reported a female and a male collected in Ruydasht on 22.VII.1937 by V. Gussakovskij as the “ type ” but there are actually two females and a male with Kostylev’s identification labels. All of them can be considered belonging to the type series according to Art. 72.4.1.1 of ICZN (1999). Celonites biinterruptus is clearly a species distinct from C. modestus. The former one has a smaller size in the female sex (the male of C. modestus is unknown and therefore not compared with C. biinterruptus), a more distinct microsculpture between macropunctures on the frons, more distinct macropunctures on the scutum and scutellum, which do not form longitudinal rows (C. modestus has macropunctures, which form longitudinal rows on the scutum and scutellum, and those on the scutellum are smoothened), and a very distinct color pattern (particularly, metasomal terga have twice-interrupted whitish apical bands, with ferruginous margins, while these band are not interrupted and uniformly yellow in C. modestus).