Ammophila vetuberosa LI & YANG

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 : 501

Ammophila vetuberosa LI & YANG ( Figs 753-763 )

Ammophila vetuberosa LI & YANG in LI, LI & YANG 1994: 290, 3. Holotype: 3, China: Shandong Province: Dongying City: Xianthe Town (Shandong Agricultural University ), not

examined. M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Mongolia: Ordos (13 NHMW).

R e c o g n i t i o n The male of A. vetuberosa has the submarginal cell III petiolate, the gastral apex without metallic shine, the propodeal enclosure glabrous, the supraantennal lamellate projection absent and the mesothoracic venter not prominent anteriorly. Additionally, the episternal sulcus extends to the anteroventral margin of the pleuron, the arolia are well developed and the claws have no basal tooth. The posterior surface of the forecoxa has a tooth (angulation). The male of A. vetuberosa differs from all species with a petiolate submarginal cell III in having a tooth on the posterior surface of the forecoxa.

D e s c r i p t i o n 3: 12-17 mm. Black except petiole (basally more or less black), tergum I and gastral segments II and III red. Clypeus, frons, pronotal lobe, patch on mesopleuron and propodeum posterolaterally covered with dense appressed silvery setae, remaning areas of head and thorax distinctly pruinose. Clypeus elongate ( Fig. 753 ), disk flat. Pronotal collar dorsally impunctate, in lateral view see Fig. 759 , scutum dull, sparsely punctate and transversely microstriate; scutellum longitudinally striate and punctate. Mesopleuron dull and punctate, metapleuron and propodeum laterally punctatorugose. Propodeal enclosure obliquely striate. Genitalia: Figs 760-763 . Flagellomere I: II=2.4.

♀ 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: China, Mongolia.

Figures

Figs 753-769: (753-763) A. vetuberosa male: (753) clypeus and mandible, (754) pronotal collar in dorsal view, (755, 756, 758) submarginal cells, (757) flagellum, (759) prothorax in lateral view, (760) genitalia in ventral view, (761) gonostyle in lateral view, (762) penis valve in lateral view, (763) penis valve in ventral view (LI & LI & YANG 1994: 291); (764-769) A. xinjiangana female: (764) clypeus and mandible, (765) submarginal cells, (766) foretarsomeres I-II, (767) pronotal collar in dorsal view, (768) prothorax in lateral view, (769) flagellum (LI & YANG 1989: 35).