Ammophila cellularis GUSSAKOVSKIJ

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 : 418-419

Ammophila cellularis GUSSAKOVSKIJ ( Fig. 183 )

Ammophila cellularis GUSSAKOVSKIJ 1930: 203 , ♀. Holotype: ♀, Russia: SW-Siberia: Pavlodar (ZIN), photograph examined.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: photograph of holotype ♀ (ZIN).

R e c o g n i t i o n The female of Ammophila cellularis has a submarginal cell III petiolate, the gastral apex black without metallic shine, the propodeal enclosure glabrous and the supra-antennal lamellate projection absent. Additionally, the episternal sulcus is extending to the anteroventral margin of the pleuron and the mesothoracic venter is not prominent anteriorly, the arolia are well defined and the claws have no basal tooth. The female of A. cellularis differs from all species with a petiolate submarginal cell III in having red legs.

D e s c r i p t i o n ♀: 13 mm. Black, with following red: legs (coxa, trochanter, tarse and hindtibia partly black), tegula, petiole, tergum I (posteriorly black). Gastral segments II-VI dark reddish, partly with black patches. Clypeus, frons, mesopleuron, propodeum laterally and coxa covered with appressed silvery setae; erect setae whitish. Clypeal disk slightly convex, pronotal collar sparsely punctate (lateral view Fig. 183 ). Scutum transversely striate on anterior half, obliquely striate on posterior half, scutellum longitudinally striate. Mesopleuron and propodeum laterally coriaceous, propodeal enclosure densely, finely, obliquely striate and glabrous. Flagellomere I: II=2.0; length of petiole = hindtarsomeres I+0.3×II.

3 unknown.

G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Kazakhstan, Russia (Siberia).

Ammophila clavus (FABRICIUS) ( Figs 70 , 98 , 166 , 236 , 287 , 324 , 357 , 423 , 484 , 545 ,

Figures

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

Figs 66-73: clypeus of female.

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

Figs 161-171: pronotal collar of female in lateral view.

Figs 227-239: male clypeus.

Figs 277-291: 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.

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.