Ammophila menghaiana LI & YANG, 1989

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Ammophila menghaiana LI & YANG ( Figs 697-706 )

Ammophila manghaiana LI & YANG 1989: 34, ♀, 3. Holotype: ♀, China: Yunnan Province: Manghai County: no specific locality (Beijing Agricultural University ), not examined.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d:None.

D e s c r i p t i o n (LI & YANG 1989: 34, translated from Chinese by Yan Chengjin): " ♀: Body length 19.0 mm. Black; legs largely, terga I-II, and sternum II yellowish red; gastral apex with weak metallic blue luster; wings pale yellowish brown. Head and thorax with long, white setae. Clypeus laterally and lower areas of frons, pronotal lobe, mesopleuron posteriorly and propodeum posterolaterally covered with dense appressed setae, terga I-II with short setae. Vertex with sparsely, small punctures, frons with sparse large punctures; supra-antennal projection absent; free margin of clypeus emarginate medially, with two lateral teeth. Postocellar diameter (ODD): postocellar distance (POD): oculocellar distance (OOD): interocular distance at anterior ocellus (IODP): interocular distance at clypeus (IODC) = 1: 2.1: 4: 12: 10. Relative length of antennal pedicel: flagellomeres I: II: III: IX = 1.6: 6.1: 4: 4: 2.4. Pronotal collar: length: width = 6: 12, sparsely punctate, without median furrow; scutum sparsely punctate, anterior half without striae, medial region of posterior half rugose-striate. Scutellum weakly longitudinally rugose-striate; metanotum without striae; propodeal enclosure with weak median carina, surface coarsely obliquely rugose-striate laterally, median region without distinct striae; mesopleuron densely punctate, with episternal sulcus, transversely rugosestriate and punctate; mesosternum transversely rugose-striate and punctate. Forewing with three submarginal cells. Foretarsus asymmetrical; hindleg: relative length of tibia: tarsomere I: II: III = 27.8: 14.9: 8: 6.7. Length of gastral petiole: terga I: II = 23.5: 22: 15.5.

3: Body length 17.0 mm. Similar to female. Terga I-II laterally, sternum II basally yellowsh red; clypeus laterally and ventrally covered with dense appressed setae. Free margin of clypeus emarginate medially; ODD: POD: OOD: IODP: IODC = 1: 2.6: 4: 11: 5.7. Relative length of antennal pedicel: flagellomeres I: II: II: IX = 1.4: 5: 3.5: 3.5: 2.4. Pronotal collar: length: width = 5: 10.5. Posterior half of scutum not rugose-striate. Mesosternum weakly transversely rugose-striate; hindleg: relative length of tibia: tarsomere I: II: III = 25.5: 13.5: 7: 5.7. Length of petiole: terga I: II: III = 25: 21.2: 14.6: 8. Genitalia with penis valves as in Fig. 704 , volsella as in Fig. 705 and gonostyle as in Fig. 706.

R e l a t i o n s h i p s: This new species is related to A. laevigata F. SMITH 1856 and A. punctata F. SMITH 1856 , but it can be easily distinguished from the latter by the punctures of the head, pronotal collar and scutum, the sculpture of scutellum as outlined in the text, black gastral petiole, coloration of the body and by the male genitalia. "

G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: China (Yunnan: Menghai).

Figures

Figs 697-715: (697-706) A. menghaiana: (697) submarginal cells of female, (698) clypeus and mandible of female, (699) foretarsomere I-II of female, (700) prothorax of female in lateral view, (701) female flagellum, (702) pronotal collar of female in dorsal view, (703) clypeus and mandible of male, (704) penis valve in lateral view, (705) genitalia in ventral view, (706) gonostyle in lateral view (LI & YANG 1989: 35); (707-715) A. pachythoracalis male: (707) head in frontal view, (708) pronotal lobe in dorsal view, (709) submarginal cells, (710) prothorax in lateral view, (711) flagellum, (712) penis valve in lateral view, (713) penis valve inventral view, (714) gonostyle in lateral view, (715) genitalia in ventral view (YANG & LI 1989: 108).