Podalonia atrocyanea (EVERSMANN)

Dollfuss, H., 2010, A Key to Wasps of the Genus Podalonia FERNALD 1927 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) of the Old World, Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2), pp. 1241-1291 : 1252

Podalonia atrocyanea (EVERSMANN) Figs 13 , 26, 50, 75, 109

Psammophila atrocyanea EVERSMANN 1849: 365 , sex not indicated. Holotype or syntypes: sex unknown, Russia: Orenburg province: no specific locality (ZIN).

Psammophila masinissa MORICE 1900 a: 65 ,, Syntypes:, Algeria: Biskra (OXUM).

R e c o g n i t i o n Podalonia atrocyanea has a glabrous propodeal enclosure and no basal tooth on claws.

In the females the gaster is black with bluish reflections and the flagellum is slender (fig. 13). In addition, the frons dorsally and the vertex are flat or slightly concave, and dull; erect setae on head and thorax are black, the scutum is punctate and in many specimens rugose-striate; the mesopleuron is rugose-striate and more or less coarsely wrinkled; the petiole is as long as hindtarsomere II and plantulae are small but distinct. The female of P. atrocyanea differs from P. chalybea in having a nearly flat clypeus, in P. chalybea the clypeus is convex.

In the males the petiole is distinctly longer than hindtarsomere I and the fore- and midlegs are partly reddish-brown in the most specimens. Terga I-III of gaster are reddish-brown and the apical terga are black with blue reflections. Penis valve: figs 26, 50, 75 and 109.

The male of P. atrocyanea differs from that of P. chalybea in having a petiole longer than hindtarsomere I (60: 50), a slenderer body and a mesopleuron with microsculpture coarsely punctate and mostly with appressed silver setae.

G e o g r a p h i c d i s t r i b u t i o n: China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Russia, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia.

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d 11, 109.

Figures

Figs 9-22: (9) P. kozlovii foretarsomeres of female; (10) P. moczari foretarsomeres of female; (11) P. moczari marginal cell of forewing; (12) P. moczari clypeus of female; (Tsuneki 1971). (13) P. atrocyanea flagellomeres I, II of female; (14) P. chalybea flagellomeres I, II of female; (15) P. schmiedeknechti head of female; (16) P. hirsuta head of female; (17) P. schmiedeknechti foretarsomeres of female; (18) P. hirsuta foretarsomeres of female; (19) P. luffii foretarsomeres of female; (20) P. mauritanica foretarsomeres of female; (21) P. pungens marginal cell of forewing; (22) P. harveyi head of female in dorsal view.