The digger wasps of the genus Didineis Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Bembicinae) of Russia and adjacent territories, with a key to species and new synonymies Author Nemkov, Pavel G. text Zootaxa 2015 3941 3 391 400 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.3.5 b485809d-ea2c-45fa-939b-9cf266fd7a59 1175-5326 236033 A9AF7CDD-3003-4F7A-9953-5B01A5110FD5 Didineis crassicornis Handlirsch 1888 ( Fig. 3 ) Didineis crassicornis Handlirsch 1888 : 266 , ♂. Holotype : ♂, Hungary , no specific locality (TMB), now Romania , Kopacs ( Mocsáry 1897: 81 ). Didineis crassicornis : de Dalla Torre 1897 : 565 ; Kokujev 1906 : 217 ; Gussakovskij 1937 : 603 ; Bohart & Menke 1976 : 458 . Alysson crassicornis : Pulawski 1978 : 213 ; Prisniy 2012 : 50 . Material examined . Spain : 1♂ , Andalusia, no specific locality (Staudinger) ( ZIN ). Recognition . The Didineis crassicornis can be recognized by the following character combination: mesosoma black, legs red, flagellomeres VI–IX as long as wide in female and shorter than wide in male, lateral surface of mesopleuron finely rugose and mat, metasomal tergum II finely and somewhat densely punctate. Description . Body black with red metasomal base. Clypeus, band on inner eye margin, and scape ventrally yellow. Flagellum mostly red, somewhat darkened above. Legs red. Frons and scutum microscopically and very densely punctate (punctures much less than one diameter apart). Lateral surface of mesopleuron finely rugose, mat. Metasomal tergum II finely and somewhat densely punctate (punctures about one diameter apart). Female flagellomeres VI–IX as long as wide. Male flagellomeres I–III not concave ventrally, flagellomeres VI–IX shorter than wide, foretibia not modified. Distribution . France , Portugal , Spain , Italia , Austria , Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary , Romania , Bulgaria , Ukraine , Turkey , Russia (Belgorodskaya Oblast, Stavropolskii Krai), Algeria .