Tachysphex consocius Kohl, 1892

Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Gadallah, Neveen S., Gasib, Abdulmajeed M., Al-Fifi, Zarrag I. A. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2023, Further addition to the crabronid fauna of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea (Spheciformes): Crabronidae), with new genera and species records, and the description of two new species, Zootaxa 5319 (2), pp. 151-177 : 170

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5319.2.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8182351

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Tachysphex consocius Kohl, 1892
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Tachysphex consocius Kohl, 1892 View in CoL View at ENA

Fig. 13A–G View FIGURE 13

Tachysphex consocius Kohl, 1892: 217 View in CoL , ♀.

Diagnosis. Body length: 7.0 mm.

Body, including legs and antennae, black ( Fig. 13A View FIGURE 13 ); pygidial plate reddish apically in some females; mandible reddish medially, black at base and apex ( Fig. 13B View FIGURE 13 ); labrum flat, concealed under clypeus; middle clypeal section of female convex ( Fig. 13B View FIGURE 13 ), with one lateral incision, free margin sinuate; postocellar area with erect setae; mid tarsomere II more than twice as long as apically wide ( Fig. 13A View FIGURE 13 ); mesopleuron distinctly punctate, punctures minute; propodeal dorsum irregularly rugose or irregularly ridged ( Fig. 13C View FIGURE 13 ); gastral T 1–4 silvery fasciate apically ( Fig. 13A View FIGURE 13 ); dorsal length of female flagellomere I about 2.3 × apical width; outer apical spine of male foretarsomere II longer than foretarsomere III.

Material examined: 2♀, Farasan, Abdulmajeed farm [16 Q 42.07970’N; 42 Q 08.5781’E], 23–30.ix.2022.

Previous Saudi Arabian records: Fayfa ( Pulawski, 2007).

Distribution: Widely distributed in Africa, southern Europe to Central Asia and India and Sri Lanka.

Comments. Characters of this species agree with Pulawski’s key (2007: 49, couplet 103), as well as the diagnosis recognizing the species in Pulawski (2007: 208).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SuperFamily

Apoidea

Family

Crabronidae

SubFamily

Crabroninae

Genus

Tachysphex

Loc

Tachysphex consocius Kohl, 1892

Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Gadallah, Neveen S., Gasib, Abdulmajeed M., Al-Fifi, Zarrag I. A. & Edmardash, Yusuf A. 2023
2023
Loc

Tachysphex consocius

Kohl, F. F. 1892: 217
1892
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