Ammoplanellus (Ammoplanus) kaszabi, Tsuneki

Boucïek, Zdenek, 2001, Palaearctic species of Ammoplanus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), Journal of Natural History 35, pp. 849-929 : 889-890

A. (Ammoplanus) kaszabi Tsuneki

Ammoplanus kaszabi Tsuneki, 1972: 214 ±216. Mongolia: Cental Aimak. Holotype male, by

original designation; in TMB (examined).

5 Ammoplanus crudelis Marshakov, 1976: 680 . Mongolia: Eastern Aimak. Syn. n. Holotype

female, by original designation; in ZMAS (examined).

Additional diagnostic characters

Male. Body length 1.9±2.4 mm. Pterostigma dark brown along margins, elongate median part medium brown, not very pale. Head about 1.1 times as broad as long (high), broadest in lower third; in lateral view head 1.5 times as long as stout, stoutest in middle. Frons regularly moderately convex, dull with dense engraved reticulation of elongate meshes; orbital foveae not distinct. Clypeus with median tooth present but usually blunt, low subconical; submedian tooth mostly not distinct, clypeal side in front of torulus and shortly outside of it hardly as long (high) as half diameter of torulus. Labrum as broad as one torulus plus intertorular space; almost twice as broad as long, sides roundedly converging; anterior margin slightly emarginate, pilose in emargination. Mandibles on upper margin emarginate in basal third, on outside the carinate edge slightly expanded at base of mandible. Palpi relatively short. Underside of head laterally densely striate, without concavities. Oral fossa in form of broad rounded V, almost as long as distance between its carinate margin and foramen magnum. Occipital carina complete, not interrupted in middle. Antennae of medium length; ¯agellum almost bare, with few very short hairs, placoid sensilla very dense, small, hardly oblong; segments before middle of funicle 1.3±1.4 times, more distal ones up to 1.55 times, as long as broad.

Mesosoma . Pronotal collar dorsally very short and carinate (®gure 28), very steep in front of carina. Mesoscutum moderately dull, its sculpture as on frons but meshes arranged more concentrically; punctures not distinct; posteriorly delimited by very ®ne trasscutal groove in front of broader basal scutellar cross-groove which is subdivided by ®ve rugulae. Metanotum medially convex and shiny. Propodeum dorsally with ®ne rugosity and some weak cross-carinulae, a rather strong median carina and subcarinate on hind margin of dorsal side; hind corners not broadly rounded. Hind tibia in lateral view with dorsal outline slightly concave. Hind basitarsus widened in most of its length, not sinuate (®gure 29), sometimes its middle part shortly parallel-sided; concave whole length on mesal side, sharp sides with suberect, not long and not dense hairs, some of them present also on concave side.

Metasoma. Sternite 4 ¯at and bare except for few short hairs postero-laterally; hind margin almost straight. Sternite 5, except narrow sides, concave and beset with long and soft setae, these not dense, longest at sides and there their tips curving mesad, thus forming a sort of basket; on sternite 6 the basket slightly poorer but hind margin of sternite broadly produced and raised, with dense apical stiOE hairs reaching level with longer lateral hairs and forming a transverse ridge. Sternite 7 as long as preceding sternite, in middle slightly convex and bare, except for several short hairs on sides.

Female. In the specimen from Talasskiy Alatau pterostigma darker than usual but darker framing still recognizable. Head in large specimens very stout (as ®gure 16). Lower face very slightly concave, almost ¯at; tentorial pits hardly distinct. Middle of clypeus slightly raised but without tooth. Labrum twice as broad as high (®gure 27). Mandibles apparently without additional tooth on inner edge (not well visible in lectotype). Underside of head fairly convex, on sides with sparse but rather long hairs; oral fossa deep, semicircular; palpi short. Antennal scape 3.1 times as long as broad, 0.5 the length of distance between upper edges of toruli and median ocellus.

Variation. Pronotal collar in a female from Kazakhstan is unusually short in middle. Expansion on hind basitarsus in male seems to vary to unusual extent. The broadest expansion is found in the Aldeavilla male with the expanded part more sinuate and ¯attened by drying, in the Arvieux male it is not compressed by drying up, hence looking diOEerent, and the least expanded basitarsus is found in a male from S. Kazakhstan, g. Mashat.

Material examined. Spain (Zaragoza): Pina de Ebro, 1m, 22 April 1990 (J. Blasco; UZUS; ( Salamanca ): Aldeadavilla , 1, 25 May 1997 (Gayubo; UZUS) . France (Hautes Alpes, border of Queyras N. Park ): Arvieux , 1, 18 July 1990 (BoucÏek; BMNH) . Russia ( Western Sibera ): Altai region: 38 km S of Rubtsovsk, 1, 19 July 1978 (K. Janokmen) . Kazakhstan (NE): 53 km N of Ust’ - Kamenogorsk, 1, 11 July 1979 (K. Janokmen); (S): Foothills of Talasskiy Alatau Mts, 2 km S of Rayevka , g. Mashat , 2 land 1m, 1 July 1998 (Kazenas; BMNH, ZMAS) . Mongolia: Central Aimak , 1. holotype and 1m paratype of kaszabi (Kaszab; TMB); (Eastern or Dornod Aimak) : on River Numregin-Khol , 32 km SE of River Salkhit, holotype m of crudelis , 23 July 1971 (M. Kozlov; ZMAS) .

Distribution. Spain, S.E. France, Russia (W. Siberia, and probably C. Siberia; Lower Tunguska River (as crudelis ÐMarshakov, 1978: 370 ), Kazakhstan, Mongolia.