Ammophila ganquana YANG & LI, 1989

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Ammophila ganquana YANG & LI ( Figs 658-672 )

Ammophila ganquana YANG & LI 1989: 105 , ♀, 3. Holotype: ♀, China: Shaanxi Province: Ganquan County: Quingquan (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: (YANG & LI 1989: 105, translated from Chinese by Yan Chengjin): " ♀: Body length 12.5mm. Black; petiole apex ventrally, tergum I largely, tergum II, sternum II, and base of tergum III yellowish red; gastral apex without metallic blue luster; posterior part of tegula and wings pale yellowish brown, veins pale brown. Clypeus, gena and prosternum with sparse long white setae, other areas without long setae. Mesopleuron posteriorly and propodeum posterolaterally covered with dense appressed setae. Gastral petiole basoventrally with sparse pubescence. Vertex, frons and clypeus sparsely punctate, with supra-antennal projection. Clypeus medially with roughly spherical protuberance, free margin of clypeus emarginate medially. Postocellar diameter (ODD): postocellar distance (POD): oculocellar distance (OOD): interocular distance at anterior ocellus (IODP): interocular distance at clypeus (IODC) = 1: 2: 4: 11.1: 9.1. Relative length of antennal pedicel: flagellomeres I: II: III: VIII = 1.7: 5.6: 3.4: 3.3: 2.4. Pronotal collar: length: width = 4.5: 9.5, sparsely punctate, with deep median furrow; transversely, densely finely striate on anterior slope; scutum transversely, densely finely striate and punctate, with admedian line; scutellum coarsely, longitudinally striate; metanotum without distinct striae; propodeal enclosure with inconspicuous median carina, surface obliquely striate laterally; mesopleuron and mesosternal coarsely, transversely rugose-striate and punctate, with episternal sulcus; metapleuron and lateral side of propodeum coarsely rugose-striate. Submarginal cell III of forewing petiolate. Foretarsus asymmetrical; hindleg, relative length of tibia: tarsomeres I: II: III = 22.3: 12.9: 7.5: 5.8, claws simple, with arolia. Length of gastral petiole: tergite I: II = 16: 14.9: 10.9.

3: Body length 12.0mm. Similar to female. The yellowish red area of tergum III and sternum III less than in female; wings deeply infumate, veins dark brown. Head and thorax with long, white setae. Clypeus and lower frons covered with dense, appressed setae. Pronotal lobe with pubescence; free margin of clypeus emarginate medially; ODD: POD: OOD: IODP: IODC = 1: 1.9: 3.2: 9.1: 4.7. Relative length of antennal pedicel: flagellomeres I: II: IX = 1.4: 4: 2.8: 3: 1.7. Pronotal collar: length: width = 3.6: 8.1. Scutum without distinct admedian line. Propodeal enclosure without median carina. Hindleg: relative length of tibia: tarsomeres I: II: III = 19.8: 10.5: 5.8: 4.1. Length of gastral petiole: tergite I = 16.1: 14.4. Genitalia with penis valves (as in Figs 670, 671 ), volsella (as Fig. 672 ) and gonostyle (as Fig. 669 ).

R e l a t i o n s h i p s: This new species with supra-antennal projection and submarginal cell III petiolate is related to A. deserticola TSUNEKI 1971 , but the female differs in having white setae on head, shape of clypeus and sculpture of scutum, and the male in the sculpture of the propodeal enclosure and the 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:ShanxiProvince.

Figures

Figs 658-678: (658-672) A. ganquana: (658) female head in frontal view, (659) submarginal cells of female, (660) pronotal collar of female in lateral view, (661) pronotal collar of female in dorsal view, (662) female flagellum, (663) female foretarsomere I, (664) male flagellum, (665) submarginal cells of male, (666) pronotal collar of female in lateral view, (667) male head in frontal view, (668) pronotal collar of male in dorsal view, (669) gonostyle in lateral view, (670) penis valve in ventral view, (671) penis valve in lateral view, (672) volsella (YANG & LI 1989: 106); A. globifrontalis: (673) female head in frontal view, (674) female head in dorsal view, (675) female flagellum, (676) pronotal collar of female in dorsal view, (677) penis valve in ventral view, (678) gonostyle in lateral view (LI & YANG 1995: 574).