Leptochilus (Lionotulus) gobicus (Kostylev, 1940)

Bai, Yue, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2024, A newly recorded genus Microdynerus Thomson, 1874 and a review of its related genus Leptochilus de Saussure, 1853 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from China, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 97, pp. 57-83 : 57

Leptochilus (Lionotulus) gobicus (Kostylev, 1940)

Figs 40-45

Odynerus gobicus Kostylev, 1940: 36.

Leptochilus gobicus ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 47.

Material examined.

Holotype, ♂, Tzoto, Alachan, Gobi, 9.V.1908, P. Kozlov! ( Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg ); paratype, 1♀, same data as holotype.

Diagnosis.

Female body length 5.5 mm (Fig. 40 ); black, with the following parts yellow: small spot of gena, A6-A13 of male, two anterior small spots of pronotum dorsally, outer margin of tegula, posterior margin scutellum in male, apical margin of femora, part of tibiae and tarsi (hind tarsus dorsally brown), narrow apical bands of T1-T2, apical spots of S2 laterally. Body with sparse white setae, and with minute and sparse punctures (Figs 40 , 41 ); clypeus wider than long (1.3 × in female, 1.1 × in male), and apically emargination wider than depth (3.0 × in female, 1.9 × in male) (Figs 42 , 43 ); clypeus in female with sparse and shallow punctures, base of emargination without punctures and smooth (Fig. 42 ); clypeus in male with dense setae (Fig. 43 ); frons, vertex and gena with coarse and sparse punctures. Punctures of mesosoma coarser and denser than those on head and metasoma; pronotal carina unobvious (Figs 40 , 41 ); A13 sharp at the apex (Fig. 45 ); the first hind tarsus in male swollen (Fig. 44 ). Metasoma leathery, with sparse and small punctures; the second metasomal segment with wide apical lamellae and there with a row of great punctures at base, interspaces between punctures short carina-formed (Fig. 44 ); S2 weakly convex in lateral view (Fig. 44 ).

Distribution.

China (Inner Mongolia).

Figures

Figures 40 - 45. (taken by Alexander V. Fateryga). Leptochilus (Lionotulus) gobicus (Kostylev, 1940). holotype (♂) 41, 43 - 45 paratype (♀) 40, 42. 40, 41 habitus in dorsal view 42, 43 head in frontal view 44 habitus in lateral view 45 part of antenna.