Didineis kozhevnikovi Kokujev 1906

Nemkov, Pavel G., 2015, The digger wasps of the genus Didineis Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Bembicinae) of Russia and adjacent territories, with a key to species and new synonymies, Zootaxa 3941 (3), pp. 391-400 : 396

Didineis kozhevnikovi Kokujev 1906

Didineis kozhevnikovi Kokujev 1906: 218 , ♀. Holotype: ♀, Russia, Moskovskaya Oblast, Serpukhovskii Rayon, no specific locality (ZIN), examined.

Didineis kozhevnikovi: Gussakovskij, 1937: 612 ; Bohart & Menke, 1976: 459. Alysson koshevnikovi [sic]: Pulawski, 1978: 213.

Material examined. Holotype of Didineis kozhevnikovi Kokujev—♀, Russia, Moskovskaya Oblast, Serpukhovskii Rayon, no specific locality, 1– 3.VIII (Katkov) ( ZIN). Russia: 1♀, Kurskaya Oblast, Borisovka, 18.VII 1916 (Malyshev) ( ZIN); 1♀, Udmurtiya, outfall of Siva River, 31.VII 1989 (Sitdikov) ( ZIN).

Recognition. Didineis kozhevnikovi has a unique color combination: the pronotum and the metasomal base are red, whereas the scutum is contrastingly black. The well-defined scutal punctures are a subsidiary recognition feature.

Description. Body black with red pronotum and metasomal base. Propodeum sometimes partly red. Clypeus except for dark basal and lateral margins and scape ventrally yellow, flagellum black. Legs red. Frons and scutum well-defined very densely punctate (punctures about one diameter apart). Lateral surface of mesopleuron finely rugose, mat. Metasomal tergum II densely punctate (punctures less than one diameter apart). Female flagellomeres VI–IX twice as long as wide. Male unknown.

Distribution. Russia (Moskovskaya Oblast, Kurskaya Oblast, Udmurtiya).