Ageniella (Ageniella) bruesi ( Banks, 1928 )

Waichert, Cecilia, Rodriguez, Juanita, Von Dohlen, Carol D. & Pitts, James P., 2012, Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic, Zootaxa 3353 (1), pp. 1-47 : 7-8

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3353.1.1

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scientific name

Ageniella (Ageniella) bruesi ( Banks, 1928 )
status

 

Ageniella (Ageniella) bruesi ( Banks, 1928) View in CoL

( Figs 4C–D View FIGURE 4 )

Pseudagenia bruesi Banks, 1928 View in CoL , Notes on Cuban and other West Indian Psammocharidae , p. 7 [Holotype: ♀, JAMAICA, Cinchona (MCZC)].

Diagnosis. This species can be separated from other Ageniella species in the Dominican Republic by having the following unique combination of characters: the integument is black with bluish-green reflections on the head, pronotum, and metasoma; the antenna is black; the pubescence on the body is short and silver ( Figs 4C–D View FIGURE 4 ); the clypeus is trapezoidal without a median tooth; the first metasomal segment is not carinate; the dorsal face of hind tibia is not serrate; and the fore and hind wings are darkened. Additionally, the male ( Fig. 4C View FIGURE 4 ) has weaker bluishgreen reflections on the metasoma than the female ( Fig. 4D View FIGURE 4 ).

Material examined. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Independencia, Sierra de Bahoruco, north slope, 13.5 km SE Puerto Escondido, 7 ♂, 8 ♀, 18–12–18N, 71–31–08W, 1789 m, ecotonal Pinus grassland yellow pan trap, sample 41165, J. E. Rawlins et al., 24–25.XI.2004, CMNH 371,173/ 370,847/ 371,186/ 364,846/ 369,805/ 370,082/ 369,937/ 370,074/ 370,087/ 369,390/ 370,642/ 370,316/ 370,118/ 370,893/ 370,944; 18–12–24N, 71–30–54W, 1807 m, broadleaf Pinus dense woodland, R. Davidson et al., 24–26.III.2004, 1 ♂, malaise trap, sample 41283, CMNH 371,390; 4 ♂, 6 ♀, yellow pan trap, sample 41263, CMNH 371,500/ 370,925/ 370,781/ 370,835/ 370,833/ 370,102/ 371,223/ 370,233/ 371,072; 1 ♀, La Vega, Cordillera Central, 4.1 km SW El Covento , 18–50–33N, 70–42–44W, 1729 m, distributed evergreen forest with pine, malaise trap, sample 22382, J. Rawlins et al., 31.V.2003, CMNH 370,971; 1 ♀, [ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC]: El Montazo, Constanza, Prov [incia] La Vega, R. D., Dominguez and Aquino col., 3.VIII.1980, ( MHND) 21252 .

Distribution. Cuba ( Alayo 1969), Jamaica, Dominican Republic.

Host. Unknown.

Remarks. Ageniella bruesi morphologically resembles the Nearctic species A. euphorbiae (Viereck) . Females and males of the former differ from the Nearctic species by having width of the second radial sector 1.50 × its length and third radial sector about 2.0 × wider than the second radial sector. Ageniella euphorbiae , however, has the third radial sector about the same size as the second. Ageniella bruesi seems to be a common species in the Dominican Republic. It was the most abundant species of Ageniella in our survey and it was reported as abundant in Cuba as well ( Alayo 1969). This is the first record for the Dominican Republic.

CMNH

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Ageniella

Loc

Ageniella (Ageniella) bruesi ( Banks, 1928 )

Waichert, Cecilia, Rodriguez, Juanita, Von Dohlen, Carol D. & Pitts, James P. 2012
2012
Loc

Pseudagenia bruesi

Banks 1928
1928
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