A review of the New Caledonian Arpactophilus (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)
Author
Breitkreuz, Laura C. V.
Author
Ohl, Michael
Author
Engel, Michael S.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4063
1
1
66
journal article
37206
10.11646/zootaxa.4063.1.1
9608b695-6310-4c63-bd94-46bda058e6d8
1175-5326
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Genus
Arpactophilus
Smith, 1863
Arpactophilus
Smith, 1863
:36
.
Type
species:
Arpactophilus bicolor
Smith, 1863
, by monotypy.
Harpactophilus
Kohl, 1897
:276
. Emendation of
Arpactophilus
Smith, 1863
.
Austrostigmus
Turner, 1912
:55
.
Type
species:
Austrostigmus queenslandensis
Turner, 1908
[=
Stigmus queenslandensis
Turner, 1908
], by original designation. Synonymized with
Arpactophilus
by Bohart
in
Bohart and Menke, 1976
:41
, 186.
Diagnosis.
Representatives of the genus
Arpactophilus
are the only spilomenine wasps with the combination of an occipital carina that is always presently ventrally and a palpal formula never exceeding 5:4 (maxillary: labial). The occipital carina is dorsally interrupted in some species and continuous in others. The frontal carina is always present, varying from a complete carina extending from the median ocellus to the apical margin of the clypeus or may only be present on the lower 2/3 of the frons to the middle of the clypeus. The forewing may have one or two submarginal cells, and only two subdiscoidal cells. The metabasitibal plate is absent, some species have a distinctly colored and structured area apically on the metatibia. Spiniform setae are absent on the legs and pygidium, and tarsomere V is not distinctly larger than tarsomeres I–IV. The metasoma is sessile. Females lack a pygidial plate, but possess silk-secreting setae at the apex.