Leptochilus (Lionotulus) incertus (Kostylev, 1940)

Bai, Yue, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2024, A newly recorded genus Microdynerus Thomson, 1874 and a review of its related genus Leptochilus de Saussure, 1853 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from China, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 97, pp. 57-83 : 57

Leptochilus (Lionotulus) incertus (Kostylev, 1940)

Figs 58-60

Odynerus incertus Kostylev, 1940: 33.

Leptochilus incertus ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 47.

Material examined.

Holotype, ♀, Bain-Houdouk, Nord Alachan, Mongolic, 20.V.1909, P. Kozlv! ( Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg ).

Diagnosis.

Female body length 5.5 mm (Fig. 58 ); black, with the following parts light yellow: base half of clypeus, scape ventrally, pronotum dorsally in the front half, tegula, scutellum at posterior half, dorsal spot of mesopleuron, apical margins of femora, tibiae and tarsi, apical bands of both T1-T2 and S2 (band of T1 expand on both side and T2 with medial spots laterally). In front view, clypeus wider than long, and apically with shallow and wide emargination (Fig. 60 ); with large and dense punctures on apical half, with obvious white setae; frons with dense setae on lower half; frons, vertex and gena with small and sparse punctures. Punctures of mesosoma larger than those on head and metasoma (Fig. 59 ); pronotal carina obvious (Fig. 58 ). Metasoma leathery, with small and sparse punctures; the second metasomal segment with wide apical lamellae and there with a row of great punctures at base, interspaces between punctures short carina-formed (Fig. 59 ); S2 weakly convex in lateral view, with shallow longitudinal medial furrows at base (Fig. 59 ).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Inner Mongolia).

Figures

Figures 58 - 60. (taken by Alexander V. Fateryga). Leptochilus (Lionotulus) incertus (Kostylev, 1940). holotype (♀) 58 habitus in dorsal view 59 habitus in lateral view 60 head in frontal view.