Aplochares, Banks, 1944

Pitts, James P. & Sadler, Emily, 2017, Association and description of the male of Aplochares imitator (Smith) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Zootaxa 4300 (1), pp. 135-141 : 140-141

Key to the Aplochares species

1. Antenna 13-segmented; metasoma with 7 visible terga; males................................................. 2

-. Antenna 12-segmented; metasoma with 6 visible terga; females................................................3

2. Base of T2 sometime with a yellow band; ventral portion of scape yellow, not concolorous with flagellomeres 1–3 which are orange; apex of subgenital plate truncate.................................................... A. adrastes Banks

-. T2 concolorous, without maculations; ventral portion of scape orange, concolorous with flagellomeres 1–3; apex of subgenital plate rounded......................................................................... A. imitator (Smith)

3. Fore wing with anterior portion infuscated and posterior portion hyaline (apex of wing including MC, 2SMC and 3SMC, 2nd

and 3rd discoidal cells, 2nd and 3rd cubital cells, and the anal cell completely hyaline with remainder of wing infuscated); apical emargination of clypeus smoothly rounded; legs brown, not concolorous with body ( Fig. 10 )........... A. adrastes Banks -. Fore wing with apical maculation (apex of fore wing, sometimes including the apices of the MC, 3SMC and 2nd discoidal cells, white with remainder of wing black); apical emargination of clypeus with a slight medial tooth; legs concolorous with body ( Fig. 1 ).............................................................................. A. imitator (Smith)

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 11. Aplochares adrastes; Fig. 10. Habitus, female; and Fig. 11. Habitus, male.

FIGURES 1 – 5. Aplochares imitator; Fig. 1. Habitus, female; Fig. 2. Habitus, male; Fig. 3. Face, female; Fig. 4. Face, male; and Fig 5. Mesosoma and legs, male, dorsal view.