Ammophila haimatosoma KOHL

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 : 437-439

Ammophila haimatosoma KOHL ( Figs 422 , 483 , 542 , 592 )

Ammophila haimatosoma KOHL 1884: 383 , ♀. Holotype: ♀, Cyprus: no specific locality (NHMW), examined.

Ammophila haimatosoma variété sinaitica ALFIERI 1946: 128. Holotype: ♀, Egypt: Sinai Peninsula: Wadi El Ghedeirat (A. Alfieri coll., now?), not examined.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d Holotype ♀ ( NHMW), 2♀♀, 1033 ( OÖLM), 233 ( BMNH), 4♀♀, 2033(coll. Schmid-Egger).

N o t e: Ammophila haimatosoma , A. punti , A. clavus and the Subsaharan A. beniniensis are extremely similar and variable. Further examinations about their status should be conducted.

R e c o g n i t i o n Ammophila haimatosoma has the pronotal collar (including lateral lobes) and the scutum with coarse, transverse rugae, the episternal sulcus ending at the level of scrobe and the mesothoracic venter anteriorly not prominent. The gaster is partly black with more or less blue metallic shine and the arolia are lacking in female. Both sexes of A. punti differ from A. haimatosoma in having a greatly increased amount of stiff setae on the head and thorax and gastral apex without metallic shine. The female of A. clavus is similar and differs only in having the head and the thorax in most specimens black. The female of the Subsaharan A. beniniensis is similar and differs only in having brown wings with a violet shine and in most specimens the gaster all black. The male of A. clavus differs from A. haimatosoma in having the legs and the thorax black ( A. haimatosoma has the prothorax and the legs red).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Pronotal collar (including lateral lobes) and scutum with coarse transverse rugae, supra-antennal lamellate projection absent, episternal sulcus ending at level of scrobe, mesothoracic venter not prominent anteriorly. Gaster partly black, with more or less blue metallic shine and claws without basal tooth.

♀: 16.5-22 mm. Black, with following red: head, thorax, propodeum, legs, petiole, tergum I and gastral segment II (all extremely variably). Pronotal lobe and propodeum posterolaterally covered with appressed silvery setae (in some specimens also clypeus), remaning areas of thorax and propodeum more or less pruinose; erect setae on head and thorax dark-brown or pale. Vertex dull and impunctate. Clypeus slightly elongate and evenly arcuate, disk convex. Scutellum and metanotum longitudinally ridged. Mesopleuron, metapleuron and propodeum laterally with uniform oblique ridges. Propodeal enclosure along midline irregularly ridged and pruinose, laterally transversely ridged and glabrous, arolia lacking. Forecoxa with short posteromedian spine (difficult to see, wings slightly yellowish-brown. Flagellomere I: II=1.8-2.1; length of the petiole = hindtarsomeres I+0.75×II to I+II.

3: 18.5-21 mm. Black, with following variably red: mandible (except apex), clypeus along free margin, scape, prothorax, tegula, legs (partly darkened), petiole, tergum I (except for dorsal black stripe) and basal half of gastral segment II. Gastral apex black, with blue metallic shine, slightly pruinose. Clypeus, frons, pronotal lobe, propodeum posterolaterally covered with appressed silvery setae, thorax and propodeum sides more or less pruinose. Propodeal enclosure transversely rugose, pruinose medially and glabrous laterally. Forecoxa postero medially with spine (difficult to see). Erect setae on head, thorax and propodeum laterally whitish, scutellum coarsely longitudinally ridged. Mesopleuron, metapleuron and propodeum laterally coarsely obliquely punctato-rugose, arolia large. Gonostyle laterally: Fig. 422 ; penis valve laterally: Fig. 483 , ventrally: Fig. 542 , apically: Fig. 592 . Flagellomere I: II=1.5-1.6; length of petiole = hindtarsomeres I+II to I+II+0.5×III.

G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: North Africa, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen.

Ammophila haladai DOLLFUSS nov. sp. ( Figs 81 , 103 , 135 , 186 , 242 , 297 , 328 , 362 ,

Figures

Figs 414-429: male genitalia: gonostyle in lateral view.

Figs 471-490: male genitalia: penis valve in lateral view.

Figs 527-545: male genitalia: penis valve in ventral view.

Figs 563-596: male genitalia: penis valve in apical view.

Figs 74-84: clypeus of female.

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

Figs 131-137: pronotal collar of female in dorsal 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 320-331: pronotal collar of male in dorsal view.

Figs 357-373: male clypeus in lateral view.