Four new species of the digger wasp genus Ammophila W. Kirby, 1798 (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) from Central Asia
Dаnilov, Yuriy N.
Zootaxa
2018
2018-08-08
4457
2
332
338
66BYG
Danilov
Dаnilov
2018
[151,514,764,790]
Insecta
Sphecidae
Ammophila
GBIF
Animalia
Hymenoptera
4
336
Arthropoda
species
yaroslavi
sp. nov.
Diagnosis. Ammophila yaroslavihas a glabrous propodeal enclosure, submarginal cell III petiolate, apex of the metasoma without blue reflexes, and legs red. The male differs from all species with a petiolate submarginal cell III in having red legs. The female is similar to A. cellularisGussakovskij, 1930in having the glabrous propodeal enclosure, submarginal cell III petiolate, and red legs and metasoma, but differs in having a predominately red mandible and a different shape of the apical margin of the clypeus, by the more developed appressed silvery setae on the body: the mesosomaentirely (except the propodeal enclosure and the medial part of the scutal disk) with dense appressed silvery setae concealing the integument ( Ammophila cellularishas the mesopleuron with a spot of dense appressed silvery setae and the propodeum with sparse appressed silvery setae, not concealing integument). Description. Clypeus, subantennal sclerite, paraocular area, frons, and gena with dense appressed silvery setae. Vertex and occiput slightly shiny, with scattered punctures. Erect setae pale. Supra-antennal lamellate projection absent. Mesosomaentirely (except propodeal enclosure and scutal disk in female) with dense appressed silvery setae and pale erect setae. Propodeal enclosure glabrous, obliquely striate, with inconspicuous, scattered appressed silvery setae anteriorly. Tegula red. Wingshyaline; veins and stigma reddish. Submarginal cell III petiolate. Claws without teeth. Male. Body length 12–13 mm. Head( Fig 22). Clypeus not elongate. Mandible red in basal half, brown apically; palpi and antennae black. Mesosoma( Figs 21, 23, 24). Pronotal collar rounded dorsally. Legsred (except coxae and hindtarsi), pruinose. Coxae black with dense appressed silvery setae. Hindtarsi brownish. Metasoma.Petiole ( Fig 24), T1-T5, S1-S5 red; T6-T7, and S6-S7 black with no blue reflexes. Metasoma slightly pruinose. Penis valve: Fig 25. Female. Body length 14–15 mm. Head( Fig 27). Clypeus slightly convex medially; apical margin red. Mandible red in basal half and black apically; palpi black. Scape red ventrally, brown and with appressed silvery setae dorsally; pedicel black and reddish apically; flagellomeres black. Mesosoma( Figs 26, 28). Pronotum slightly emarginated medially. Scutal disk shiny. Legsred (except coxae), pruinose. Coxae reddish-brown with dense appressed silvery setae. Metasoma.Entirely red, pruinose.
Materialexamined: Holotype. ♂, TURKMENISTАN. Lebap Province: East Karakum Desert, Repetek Biosphere State Reserve[ 38°34′N 63°10′E], 19.IV.1983, V.А. Krivokhatsky( ZISP). Paratypes. TURKMENISTАN. Daşoguz Province: Daşoguz[former Tashauz] [ 41°50′N 59°58′E], 7.V.1931, А.V. Ushinsky( 1 ♂, ZISP). KАZАKHSTАN. Kyzylorda Province: Shieli District, near Baigakum[ 44°18′N 66°28′E], 9.V.1908, S. I. Malyshev( 2 ♀, ZISP).
Distribution: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan. Name Derivation.Named in honor of my little son Yaroslav.
1917076211
1983-04-19
ZISP
V. A. Krivokhatsky
Turkmenistan
Material
38.566666
Repetek Biosphere State Reserve
1174
63.166668
East Karakum Desert
4
336
1
1
Lebap Province
holotype
1917076196
1931-05-07
ZISP
A. V. Ushinsky
Turkmenistan
41.833332
Tashauz
1153
59.966667
Dasoguz
4
336
1
1
Dasoguz Province
paratype
1917076198
1908-05-09
ZISP
S. I. Malyshev
Kazakhstan
44.3
Baigakum
1137
66.46667
Shieli District
4
336
2
2
Kyzylorda Province
paratype