Cerceris palmetorum de Beaumont, 1951

Malash, Alyaa A., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2024, A revision of bupresticida species group of Cerceris Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Philanthinae) of the Western Palearctic region, with the description of Cerceris ammonia, a new species from Egypt, Zootaxa 5448 (1), pp. 1-28 : 19-22

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11245350

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scientific name

Cerceris palmetorum de Beaumont, 1951
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Cerceris palmetorum de Beaumont, 1951 View in CoL

Figs 16 View FIGURE 16 (A–D), 17(A–C)

Cerceris palmetorum de Beaumont, 1951:342 View in CoL , ♀, ♂. Holotype: ♀, Egypt: Siwa Oasis : El Arig.

Brief description. Female ( Figs 16 View FIGURE 16 A-D, 17A, B): Almost entirely yellow (including scape and legs except for thin black streak on femora ventrally, and tegula) ( Figs 16A, B View FIGURE 16 , 17B View FIGURE 17 ); head above median ocellus black to reddish brown; two reddish brown streaks running to antennal bases; face below antennal sockets and clypeus creamy (whitish) ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ), antenna (excluding scape) ferruginous behind, brownish above ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ); scutum black, with U-shaped yellow marking medially ( Fig. 16A View FIGURE 16 ); incisions between abdominal terga reddish brown. Forewing hyaline, with small infumate apex just after marginal cell ( Fig. 16A View FIGURE 16 ).

Face and clypeus with dense whitish wooly covering obscuring integument beneath ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ); clypeus with middle lobe convex at base, free margin with lateral teeth ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ); mandible with distinct sub-basal tooth, followed by notching, as well as other notching near apex; propodeal enclosure smooth, dull, without median sulcus, rugose laterally, covered with long fine setae ( Fig. 16A View FIGURE 16 ); hindcoxa without keel along inner side; pygidial plate long, oval, shagreened, narrowed towards apex, narrowly rounded at apex, lateral sides sharply edged, with upwardly curved setae ( Fig. 17B View FIGURE 17 ).

Male ( Fig. 17C View FIGURE 17 ): Differs from female in having thorax with more black, especially propodeal enclosure; clypeal middle lobe straight at free margin; gena angled posteriorly when seen in dorsal view; scutum and scutellum smooth and shiny, sparsely punctate; propodeal enclosure shiny, with medium sulcus and coarse longitudinal ridges at base.

Material examined: Algeria: A photograph from CAS: 1♂, Biskra, 20.v.1980, A. Giordani Soika collector ; Egypt: A photograph from NHMUK: 1♀, El Arig ( Siwa Oasis ), 8.vi.1935, J. Omer-Cooper collector, det. de Beaumont, 1950 (Type) .

Distribution: PA: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Oman, United Arab Emirates.

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Crabronidae

Genus

Cerceris

Loc

Cerceris palmetorum de Beaumont, 1951

Malash, Alyaa A., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Gadallah, Neveen S. 2024
2024
Loc

Cerceris palmetorum

de Beaumont, J. 1951: 342
1951
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