Oxybelus sp. 6

Dollfuss, H., 2008, The Crabronid Wasps of the Genera Oxybelus LATREILLE 1796 and Brimocelus ARNOLD 1927 of " Biologiezentrum Linz " Collection in Linz, Austria (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1), pp. 463-505 : 501

Oxybelus sp. 6 (1)

: 4.5 mm. Black, marked with yellow: mandibles basally, pronotalcolare and lobes, axillary sclerite, two spots on scutellum, metanotum in the middle, lateral maculae on tergites I-IV, lateral part of femora I and II. Scape brownish. Tibia I yellow, tibiae II and III yellow-brownish. Mesonotum sparsely coarsely punctate with 3 longitudinal ridges. Mesopleuron smooth and nearly unpunctate, ventral part with long whitish pubescens. Metanotal saquama rostriform and apex acute. Mucro guttershaped, lateral nearly parallel, apically deeply excised. Tergites shining, sparsely and finely punctate. Pygidial area longer than basally broad, apically round, reddish.

K e n y a:1, VOI (Tsavo) env., 22.XI.-2 XII.1996, leg. Mi. Halada.