Oxybelus sp. 2

Dollfuss, H., 2008, The Crabronid Wasps of the Genera Oxybelus LATREILLE 1796 and Brimocelus ARNOLD 1927 of " Biologiezentrum Linz " Collection in Linz, Austria (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1), pp. 463-505 : 500

Oxybelus sp. 2 (1)

: 4.5 mm. Black, marked with whitish: Mandible basally, pronotal lobes, a spot on each side of scutellum, two spots on tergite I, small apical bands on tergite II-IV widely separated in the middle. Legs black, femora I and II apical with a whitish spot, tibia I anterior whitish striped. Apical half of segment V and segment VI of the abdomen reddish. Scape dark brown, axillary sclerites blackish on the inner half and whitish on the outer. Vertex shining, sparsely and finely punctate. Mesonotum distinctly but sparsely punctate, shining. Anterior part of the mesopleuron smooth and nearly unpunctate. Metanotal squama rostriform and the apex acute. Mucro guttershaped, distinctly widened towards the apex and deeply excised. Tergites shining and extrem finely and irregularly punctate.

Z a m b i a - c:1, 15. km S Kapiri Mposhi, 16.-17.I.2003, leg. J. Halada.