Erythropompilus taiwanensis Pitts & Shimizu, 2021

Shimizu, Akira, Pitts, James P., Yoshimura, Jin & Wahis, Raymond, 2021, New genus and species of Pompilinae spider wasps from the Oriental Region (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 84, pp. 339-359 : 339

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.84.68810

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3534F399-53C5-4DD2-8404-4ABC7327E124

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scientific name

Erythropompilus taiwanensis Pitts & Shimizu
status

sp. nov.

Erythropompilus taiwanensis Pitts & Shimizu sp. nov.

Figures 3A-H View Figure 3 , 4A-I View Figure 4

Material examined.

Holotype, ♀: 'Wushe. Taiwan 1150m. V-15-83 Henry Townes’ (EMUS). Paratypes: 1♂, ' TAIWAN: Kaohsiung, Luluei Forest Sta., 750m; May 1 1989; J. Heppner & W. Wang’ (EMUS) .

Diagnosis.

Both sexes: clypeus narrower than LID (Figs 3A View Figure 3 , 4A View Figure 4 ); mid and hind femora without small spines set in pits apicodorsally. Female: thorax almost black (Fig. 3G View Figure 3 ); gena, in dorsal view, slightly thickened, roundly receding posteriorly (Fig. 3B View Figure 3 ); and lateral margin of pronotal dorsum, in dorsal view, concave, not narrowing anteriorly (Fig. 3B View Figure 3 ). Male: thorax dark rufous (Fig. 4I View Figure 4 ); frons, in profile, spherically convex (Fig. 4I View Figure 4 ); placoids small, shorter than half of each flagellomere (Fig. 4E View Figure 4 ); SGP triangular with rounded apex (Fig. 4F View Figure 4 ); and inner margin of parapenial lobe finely and irregularly serrate (Fig. 4G, H View Figure 4 ).

Description.

Holotype female. Length: Body 6.0 mm; forewing 5.9 mm. Body and legs black (Fig. 3D View Figure 3 ). Following dark rufous: palpi, clypeus, labrum, mandible, flagellum beneath, legs, and metasoma. Scape and pedicel beneath light brown (Fig. 3A View Figure 3 ). Wings translucent with brownish tint (Fig. 3F View Figure 3 ). Pubescence on pronotum posteriorly and mesonotum sericeous.

Head 1.4 × as broad as long. Vertex, in frontal view, almost transversely straight but slightly raised in ocellar area (Fig. 3A View Figure 3 ). Frons in lateral view strongly convex, but upper frons and vertex flattened (Fig. 3G View Figure 3 ), with frontal line very fine from antennal base to anterior ocellus. Antennocular line distinctly inclined from antennal base toward eye (Fig. 3B View Figure 3 ). MID 0.61 × head width. UID:MID:LID = 8.1:10:7.5. POL:OOL = 1:0.86. Clypeus 2.3 × as broad as long; apical margin barely and arcuately emarginate. Gena, in profile, thin, 0.2 × eye width (Fig. 3G View Figure 3 ). Scape:Fl1:Fl2 = 7.2:10:8.7; Fl1 4.2 × as long as thick, 0.78 × as long as UID.

Pronotum gently and arcuately emarginate posteriorly (Fig. 3B View Figure 3 ). Mesoscutum scarcely raised posterolaterally. Disc of scutellum not convex above level of mesoscutum. Metapostnotum 0.1 × as long as metanotum and depressed medially, with a few fine transverse striae (Fig. 3C View Figure 3 ).

Mid tibia with four spines externally and one spine internally; hind tibia with five or six spines externally and five spines internally (Fig. 3H View Figure 3 ). Longer spur of hind tibia 0.63 × hind tarsomere 1.

FW and HW as shown in Fig. 3F View Figure 3 . Marginal cell removed from wing tip by 0.46 × its own length. SMC2:SMC3 = 1:1.3 on vein M, 1:0.48 on vein Rs. SMC2 narrowed on vein Rs by 0.82 × its length on vein M, receiving crossvein 1m-cu at basal 0.5. SMC3 narrowed on vein Rs by 0.3 × its length on vein M, receiving crossvein 2m-cu at basal 0.54, removed from outer wing margin by 1.8 × its own length. Crossvein cu-a originating slightly distal to point of separation of vein M+CuA, leaning toward wing base. HW jugal lobe less than third of subbasal cell in length.

Male. Based on the only paratype. Body 3.8 mm; forewing 3.6 mm. Body and legs reddish brown (Fig. 4C View Figure 4 ); scape and pedicel yellowish brown beneath.

Head 1.3 × as broad as long. Vertex distinctly convex between eye tops (Fig. 4A View Figure 4 ). Antennocular line strongly inclined from antennal base toward eye (Fig. 4B View Figure 4 ). MID 0.67 × head width. UID:MID:LID = 8.6:10:7.3. POL:OOL = 1:0.87. Clypeus much narrower than LID (Fig. 4A View Figure 4 ), 2.3 × as broad as long; surface more convex than in female; apical margin transversely straight. Gena, in profile, 0.3 × eye width. Scape:Fl1:Fl2 = 8.4:10:10; Fl1 2.4 × as long as thick, 0.54 × as long as UID.

Metapostnotum very short, 0.06 × as long as metanotum at midline.

FW and HW as shown in Fig. 4D View Figure 4 . Marginal cell removed from wing tip by 0.38 × its own length. SMC2:SMC3 = 1:2 on vein M, 1:0.67 on vein Rs. SMC2 not narrowed above, receiving crossvein 1m-cu at basal 0.43. SMC3 narrowed on vein Rs by 0.34 × its length on vein M, receiving crossvein 2m-cu at basal 0.51, removed from outer wing margin by 1.5 × its own length. Crossvein cu-a perpendicular to vein A.

Mid tibia with very small spines dorsally, three spines externally and two spines internally. Hind tibia with spines longer than those on mid tibia, five or six spines externally and three or four spines internally. Longer spur of hind tibia 0.65 × hind tarsomere 1.

SGP somewhat concave beneath. Genitalia (Fig. 4G, H View Figure 4 ): volsella slender but broadened apically with rounded apex and several long setae; parapenial lobe extending far beyond apex of volsella; aedoeagus parallel-sided for most part.

Etymology.

The species name is derived from its locality, i.e., Taiwan.