A revision of Laphyragogus KOHL, 1889, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Spheciformes)
Author
Schmid, Christian
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Laphyragogus orientalis
DE BEAUMONT, 1970
,
stat
.
nov
.
(figs 17-21)
Laphyragogus ajjer orientalis
DE BEAUMONT, 1970: 17
, ♁,
♀
Holotype
: ♁,
Iran
: Baluchistan: SW Iranshar (NMS, ZMHU).
Paratypes
examined.
Stat
.
nov
.
As
Laphyragogus
spec.
in SCHMID-
EGGER (2011: 545)
.
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d:
Iran
1♁
2.vi.1954
Baluchistan: SW Iranshar, Dunes Rig Ispakeh (leg. Richter u. Schäuffele, NMS). [label: "
Paratype
L. ajjer orientalis
de Beaumont
det."].
United Arab Emirates
:
1♀
30.xi.2008
Sharjah
Desert Park
25.28N
55.70E
, pitfall traps, (leg.
A.v. Harten, CSE).
D i s c u s s i o n: DE BEAUMONT (1970) described
L. orientalis
as a subspecies of his
L. ajjer
from central Sahara. The male of
L. ajjer
could not be examined and was therefore not compared directly with
L. orientalis
. From description (
DE BEAUMONT 1958
,
1959
), it differs from
L. orientalis
by longer lateral spines of S6 (spines are not on S5 as indicated by
DE BEAUMONT (1959))
and by a more extended yellow body colour. The here described female of
L. ajjer
from southern
Morocco
also differs from
L. orientalis
in some colour characters (see description below) and by form of platform of T6. For these reasons and because of the long distance between both
type
locations (Tassili des Ajjer in southern
Algeria
versus eastern
Iran
) I treat
L. orientalis
as valid species and not as subspecies of
L. ajjer
:
stat
.
nov
.
A
Laphyragogus
female from
United Arab Emirates
agree morphologically with the
paratype
female of
L. orientalis
, but differ from the type female by a more extended yellow colour pattern (see figures and description). The specimen represents most probable a colour form of
L. orientalis
from
UAE
.
D i a g n o s i s
L. orientalis
belongs to the
L. aijer
species group. See commments about species group characters above. The male of
L. orientalis
can be distinguished from both other species, in this group,
L. ajjer
and
L. gessi
, by larger extend of yellow colour, by longer spines of S6 (twice as long as diameter of hindmetatarsus medially) and by each a lateral tubercle on S7 and a medial tubercle on S8. The female can be recognized by large extend of yellow colour on head and mesosoma (see description). The female is unique by having a pointed (or overhanging) apex of platform of T6, whereas the apex is more or less rectangular in
L. gessi
and
L. ajjer
females. Colour pattern is variable, see decription and figures.
D e s c r i p t i o n See DE BEAUMONT (1970), SCHMID-
EGGER (2011)
for female of
United Arab Emirates
and figures for colour pattern.
Morphology. Similar to
L. ajjer
and
L. gessi
with the following differences: Platform of S6 larger, tip overhanging (rectangular in other species). Mesosoma and head more shiny. S6 apically with triangular emargination (rounded in other species).
D i s t r i b u t i o n:
Iran
,UnitedArabEmirates.