<documentid="B1F8665B94BFC55297C3F5A0E1E4BFAE"ID-DOI="10.5852/ejt.2022.796.1665"ID-GBIF-Dataset="9c3fa32d-4320-4170-83e3-a5c045a4ba68"ID-ISSN="2118-9773"ID-Zenodo-Dep="6299440"ID-ZooBank="76C5C9C4-C6C1-4EDC-8FF8-9828A6EF2040"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="juliana"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_approvedBy="juliana"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="juliana"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="juliana"IM.treatments_approvedBy="juliana"checkinTime="1645806766983"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Dörfel, Thorleif H. & Ohl, Michael"docDate="2022"docId="03C20928FF06FF34426215273DE80A02"docLanguage="en"docName="ejt-796_1-170.pdf"docOrigin="European Journal of Taxonomy 796 (1)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.796.1665"docStyle="DocumentStyle:EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911.14:EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleId="EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911"docStyleName="EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleVersion="14"docTitle="Sphex meridionalis"docType="treatment"docVersion="11"lastPageNumber="152"masterDocId="FFFB7150FF91FFA3402F11183C4D0C62"masterDocTitle="The wasp genus Sphex in Sub-Saharan Africa (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)"masterLastPageNumber="170"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="152"updateTime="1733488733555"updateUser="juliana"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0"zenodo-license-figures="CC-BY-4.0"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
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Members are characterized through their black, more or less perpendicularly-oriented erect propodeal setae which are slightly curved towards the anterior (
<figureCitationid="1350A4BBFF06FF34431114113FE60941"box="[830,939,1289,1315]"captionStart="Figs 1–6. 1–3"captionStartId="13.[189,241,1893,1919]"captionTargetBox="[200,1398,265,1860]"captionTargetId="figure-74@13.[200,1398,265,1863]"captionTargetPageId="13"captionText="Figs 1–6. 1–3. Dorsal view of propodeal setae in different orientation. 4. Lateral view of thoracic dorsum. 5–6. Lateral view of scutellum and metanotum. 1. Sphex pseudopraedator sp. nov., ♀. 2. S. jansei Cameron, 1910, ♂. 3–4. S. umtalicus Strand, 1916, ♀. 5. S. rufoclypeatus sp. nov., ♀. 6. S. gaullei Berland, 1927, ♀."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6299442"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6299442/files/figure.png"pageId="151"pageNumber="152">Figs 3–4</figureCitation>
), and therefore closely resemble some species of the
<figureCitationid="1350A4BBFF06FF34429814573EB0090B"box="[695,765,1359,1385]"captionStart="Figs 7–12. 7–8"captionStartId="15.[189,241,1857,1883]"captionTargetBox="[227,1360,265,1833]"captionTargetId="figure-104@15.[227,1360,265,1833]"captionTargetPageId="15"captionText="Figs 7–12. 7–8. Dorsal view of scutellum and metanotum. 9–10. Lateral view of upper metapleural area (anterior = left). 11. Dorsal view of petiole. 12. Basitarsal rake. 7. Sphex tomentosus Fabricius, 1787, ♂. 8. S. meridionalis (Arnold, 1947), ♀. 9. S. torridus F. Smith, 1873, ♂. 10. S. nigrohirtus Kohl, 1895, ♀. 11. S. haemorrhoidalis Fabricius, 1781, ♀. 12. S. decipiens Kohl, 1895, ♀. α: defined as petiole length; β: defined as length of outer side of tarsomere I; arrow: antepenultimate spine."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6299444"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6299444/files/figure.png"pageId="151"pageNumber="152">Fig. 8</figureCitation>
) lack the coarse scutellar vestiture present in those of the
<figureCitationid="1350A4BBFF06FF34419E146A3E5609EF"box="[433,539,1394,1421]"captionStart="Figs 1–6. 1–3"captionStartId="13.[189,241,1893,1919]"captionTargetBox="[200,1398,265,1860]"captionTargetId="figure-74@13.[200,1398,265,1863]"captionTargetPageId="13"captionText="Figs 1–6. 1–3. Dorsal view of propodeal setae in different orientation. 4. Lateral view of thoracic dorsum. 5–6. Lateral view of scutellum and metanotum. 1. Sphex pseudopraedator sp. nov., ♀. 2. S. jansei Cameron, 1910, ♂. 3–4. S. umtalicus Strand, 1916, ♀. 5. S. rufoclypeatus sp. nov., ♀. 6. S. gaullei Berland, 1927, ♀."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6299442"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6299442/files/figure.png"pageId="151"pageNumber="152">Figs 3–4</figureCitation>
). As this can be difficult to assess without practice, a useful indicator is the presence or absence of long erect setae, of similar quality to those on the metanotum, near the scutellar center. Females of the
group always have a conspicuous tooth-like process that emerges from below the free clypeal margin (
<figureCitationid="1350A4BBFF06FF3442DA173A3F1C0A5F"box="[757,849,1570,1597]"captionStart="Figs 25–32. 25–26"captionStartId="21.[189,241,1788,1814]"captionTargetBox="[189,1399,265,1761]"captionTargetId="figure-95@21.[189,1399,265,1761]"captionTargetPageId="21"captionText="Figs 25–32. 25–26. Ventral and lateral view of sternum VIII and genitalia in male of Sphex abyssinicus (Arnold, 1928). 27–28. Frontal view of free clypeal margin in males. 29–32. Dorsal view of fore- and hindwing in males and females of thegaullei group. 27. S. umtalicus Strand, 1916. 28. S. decipiens Kohl, 1895. 29. S. jansei Cameron, 1910, ♀. 30. S. jansei, ♂. 31. S. gaullei Berland, 1927, ♀. 32. S. gaullei, ♂."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6299450"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6299450/files/figure.png"pageId="151"pageNumber="152">Fig. 27</figureCitation>
