Association and description of the male of Aplochares imitator (Smith) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Author
Pitts, James P.
Author
Sadler, Emily
text
Zootaxa
2017
4300
1
135
141
journal article
32578
10.11646/zootaxa.4300.1.8
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1175-5326
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Key to the
Aplochares
species
1. Antenna 13-segmented; metasoma with 7 visible terga; males................................................. 2
-. Antenna 12-segmented; metasoma with 6 visible terga; females................................................3
2. Base of T2 sometime with a yellow band; ventral portion of scape yellow, not concolorous with flagellomeres 1–3 which are orange; apex of subgenital plate truncate....................................................
A. adrastes
Banks
-. T2 concolorous, without maculations; ventral portion of scape orange, concolorous with flagellomeres 1–3; apex of subgenital plate rounded.........................................................................
A. imitator
(Smith)
3. Fore wing with anterior portion infuscated and posterior portion hyaline (apex of wing including MC, 2SMC and 3SMC, 2nd
and 3rd discoidal cells, 2nd and 3rd cubital cells, and the anal cell completely hyaline with remainder of wing infuscated); apical emargination of clypeus smoothly rounded; legs brown, not concolorous with body (
Fig. 10
)...........
A. adrastes
Banks
-. Fore wing with apical maculation (apex of fore wing, sometimes including the apices of the MC, 3SMC and 2nd discoidal cells, white with remainder of wing black); apical emargination of clypeus with a slight medial tooth; legs concolorous with body (
Fig. 1
)..............................................................................
A. imitator
(Smith)