Podalonia kazenasi Danilov, 2017

Danilov, Yuriy N., 2017, Taxonomic notes on Palearctic Podalonia Fernald, 1927 (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae), with descriptions of four new species, Zootaxa 4320 (3), pp. 554-570 : 563-564

Podalonia kazenasi Danilov , sp. nov.

Figures 66–73 .

Diagnosis. The male of P. kazenasi closely resembles P. minax ( Kohl, 1901) in having red legs and a glabrous propodeal enclosure, but differs by the simple clypeus, and by the shape of penis valve (as in figs 71–73) (in P. minax , the clypeus is acute apically, and the penis valve is simple). It differs from all the other species with a glabrous propodeal enclosure in having red legs.

Description. Male. Body length 11 mm. Head. Clypeus slightly elongate and concave; apical margin emarginated. Clypeus, subantennal sclerite, and frons with dense appressed silvery setae. Vertex, occiput, and gena microsculptured, with irregular punctures; gena with appressed silvery setae. Erect setae pale. Mandible black with red spots medially. Palpi red. Small spot on scape red. Mesosoma with pale erect setae. Pronotum and scutum finely rugose, more or less shiny, with sparse, appressed silvery setae. Mesosoma laterally and ventrally with dense appressed silvery setae except upper metapleural area with sparse setae. Propodeum finely punctatorugose. Propodeal enclosure glabrous, finely obliquely striate. Tegula red. Wings hyaline, with slightly darker spot near marginal cell; veins brown; costal vein dark brown to black. Legs red, except black coxae and partly dark brown hind tarsi. Claws without subbasal tooth. Spines red, dark on hind tarsi. Metasoma all red except dark brown T7 and S7 and except black petiole. Penis valve in lateral view crescent-like, with teeth at inner margin; in ventral view without transverse spines ( Figs 71–73 ).

Female. Unknown.

Material examined: Holotype. ♂, KAZAKHSTAN. Mangystau Province: Karakiya District [42°29′N, 54°03′E], 22.V.1961, V. L. Kazenas ( ZISP).

Distribution: West Kazakhstan.

Etymology. Named in honor of Dr. V. L. Kazenas, Almaty, Kazakhstan, a specialist on digger wasps.

Figures

FIGURES 66 – 73. Podalonia kazenasi sp. n. Holotype ♂: 66 — general view, labels; 67 — face; 68 — head lateral; 69 — mesosoma lateral; 70 — mesonotum; 71 — genitalia ventral; 72 — genitalia dorsal; 73 — penis valve lateral.