Podalonia kozlovii (KOHL)

Dollfuss, H., 2010, A Key to Wasps of the Genus Podalonia FERNALD 1927 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) of the Old World, Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2), pp. 1241-1291 : 1259-1260

Podalonia kozlovii (KOHL) Fig. 9

Ammophila kozlovii KOHL 1906: 272 ,,. Syntypes: China: Tibet: Humboldt Mts. Near Ulan- Bulak and Burkha-Budda at lake Aiyk-hor (depository?).

R e c o g n i t i o n from KOHL 1906: Podalonia kozlovii has a glabrous propodeal enclosure, claws with a basal tooth near the base and a black gaster.

In the female the scutum is shiny and sparsely punctate, the foretarsomeres are slightly asymmetrical, tarsal rake with short spines (fig. 9), the mesopleuron is microscopically reticulate and the petiole is shorter than hindtarsomere I. In addition, the forecoxa of P. kozlovii has no prominent spine.

In the male the forecoxa does not have a conical tooth and the petiole is shorter than hindtarsomere I.

G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n China (Tibet).

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d None.

Figures

Figs 9-22: (9) P. kozlovii foretarsomeres of female; (10) P. moczari foretarsomeres of female; (11) P. moczari marginal cell of forewing; (12) P. moczari clypeus of female; (Tsuneki 1971). (13) P. atrocyanea flagellomeres I, II of female; (14) P. chalybea flagellomeres I, II of female; (15) P. schmiedeknechti head of female; (16) P. hirsuta head of female; (17) P. schmiedeknechti foretarsomeres of female; (18) P. hirsuta foretarsomeres of female; (19) P. luffii foretarsomeres of female; (20) P. mauritanica foretarsomeres of female; (21) P. pungens marginal cell of forewing; (22) P. harveyi head of female in dorsal view.