Podalonia rothi (de BEAUMONT)

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 : 1265-1266

Podalonia rothi (de BEAUMONT)

Ammophila rothi de BEAUMONT 1951: 260 ,,. Holotype:, Morocco: Midelt (MZL).

R e c o g n i t i o n Podalonia rothi has a propodeal enclosure with erect setae, a basally red gaster and distinct arolia.

In the female the clypeus, frons and mesopleuron are not covered with appressed silver setae, the mandible is black, the erect setae on head and thorax are black and on the propodeum white. It is further characterized by a petiole = 0.75 hindtarsomere I, flagellomere I: II = 3: 2, and POD: OOD = 14: 20. It differs from P. tydei by the shape of the clypeus, and the frons and mesopleuron lack appressed silver setae. It differs from P. dispar in its reddish-brown gaster, smaller POD and more developed arolia. It differs from P. mauretanica in having foretarsomeres not so distinctly asymmetrical, the mandible black rather than reddish and a shorter flagellomere I. The Mongolian P. flavida differs from P. rothi in having a more yellowish wing and pale wing veins.

The male of P. rothi is similar to P. tydei but the mesopleuron is without appressed silver setae, and the free margin of the clypeus is broad, truncate and hardly incised. Terga I, II and basal half of III of P. rothi are reddish and the genitalia are as in P. tydei .

G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Spain, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco.

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d: 1 paratype examined (MZL), 10 (OÖLM), 1 paratype examined (MZL).