Ammophila honorei ALFIERI

Dollfuss, H., 2013, Revision of the Wasps Genus Ammophila KIRBY 1798 (Hymenoptera Apoidea Sphecidae) of the Palearctic Region and India, Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (1), pp. 383-564 : 445

Ammophila honorei ALFIERI ( Figs 104 , 189 , 246 , 301 , 365 , 413 , 500 , 556 )

Ammophila honorei ALFIERI 1946: 140 , ♀. Holotype: ♀, Egypte: Sinai: between el Arish and

Hassana (originally A. Alfieri coll., now?) M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Jordan:Petra(13 OÖLM), Jordan valley S Shuna (1♀ OÖLM).

Israel: 32 km SE Beer Sheva 5 km E Yeroham 30°58’N 34°58’E (2♀♀ coll. Schmid-Egger).

R e c o g n i t i o n: Body all black and the gaster with a metallic shine. The propodeal enclosure is transversely striate and glabrous, the pronotal collar and the scutum are distinctly transversely striate. Additionally, the supra-antennal lamellate projection is slightly developed, the mesothoracic venter is not prominent anteriorly and the episternal sulcusis extending to the anteroventral margin of the pleuron.

Ammophila honorei resembles to A. terminata and differs only in having a black gaster. Maybe it is the black form of A. terminata .

D e s c r i p t i o n: Body all black, gaster with metallic shine. Propodeal enclosure transversely striate and glabrous, pronotal collar and scutum distinctly transversely striate. Scutellum longitudinally striate, supra-antennal lamellate projection slightly developed. Mesothoracic venter not prominent anteriorly, episternal sulcus extending to anteroventral margin of pleuron, arolia well developed and claws without basal tooth.

♀: 15-19.5 mm. Clypeus, frons, pronotal lobe, spots on propodeum posterolaterally and dorsal surface of mid- and hindcoxa covered with appressed silvery setae; erect setae on head and prothorax dark-brown, on mesothorax and propodeum whitish. Clypeus slightly elongate, with truncate median lobe, disk distinctly convex ( Fig. 104 ). Mesopleuron distinctly transversely striate. Flagellomere I: II=1.9; length of petiole = hindtarsomeres I+0.75×II to I+II.

3: 18 mm. Clypeus, frons, broad patch along mesopleural suture, pronotal lobe, propodeal hindface from hindcoxa to propodeal dorsum and mid- and hindcoxa covered with appressed silvery setae; erect setae on head and prothorax brown, on mesothotax and propodeum laterally white. Clypeus slightly elongate ( Fig. 246 ), clypeal disk nearly flat ( Fig. 365 ). Mesopleuron dull, slightly transversely striate. Pronotal collar laterally: Fig. 301 ; gonostyle laterally: Fig. 413 ; penis valve laterally: Fig. 500 , ventrally: Fig. 556 . Flagellomere I: II=1.6; length of petiole = hindtarsomeres I+II.

G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Egypt (SinaiPeninsula), Israel, Jordan.

Figures

Figs 85-109: clypeus of female in lateral view.

Figs 183-194: pronotal collar of female in lateral view.

Figs 240-252: male clypeus.

Figs 292-306: pronotal collar of male in lateral view.

Figs 357-373: male clypeus in lateral view.

Figs 398-413: male genitalia: gonostyle in lateral view.

Figs 491-508: male genitalia: penis valve in lateral view.

Figs 546-562: male genitalia: penis valve in ventral view.