Dinetus (Venustidinetus) hameri Notton, 2020

Jacobs, Hans-Joachim, 2021, A review of Dinetus Panzer, 1806 with descriptions of five new species and keys to world species (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae), Zootaxa 5061 (1), pp. 69-94 : 73-74

Dinetus (Venustidinetus) hameri Notton, 2020

Dinetus hameri Notton in Olszewski, Notton & Kitching, 2020: 363, ♀. Holotype: ♀, United Arab Emirates, Remah. (BMNH)

Description female (after Olszewski et al 2020).

Colour: Head yellow, vertex dark brown. Mandible yellow, brown apically. Antennomeres 1‒2 yellow, darkened dorsally, remaining antennomeres brown, darker apically. Pronotum yellow, anterior and posterior margins and pronotal lobe ivory. Scutum dark brown, lateral margins yellow. Scutellum ivory. Mesopleuron brown, with ivory before the pronotal lobe and along posterior margin. Propodeum yellow. Terga I‒III yellow with ivory posterior margins, IV‒V dark brown. Legs yellow, coxae trochanters and femora dorsally dark; fore femur posterior and fore tibia dorsally ivory.

Morphology: Antennomere 3 about 7× as long as wide. Anterior margin of clypeus with short straight lamella. Frons and vertex sparsely punctured. Pronotum with dense silver pubescence on posterior margin and before pronotal lobe. Scutum shining, with fine reticulated, nearly glabrous. Dorsal area of propodeum with fine granulated sculpture, with distinct median furrow and dense silver pubescence laterally. Metasoma finely reticulated, terga I‒III with appressed silver pubescence laterally. Fore femur slender, relation length/width about 4:1, longest ventral setae longer than diameter of femur. Outer vein of subdiscoidal cell (cu) oblique, converging with the nervulus (cu-a) (see fig. 2).

Distribution. Only the holotype from United Arab Emirates is known.

No material examined.