New and little known digger wasps of the genus Ammophila W. Kirby, 1798 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) from Central Asia
Author
Danilov, Yuriy N.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3964
5
537
545
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3964.5.3
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1175-5326
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Ammophila cellularis
Gussakovskij, 1930
(
Figs 1
,
8
)
Ammophila cellularis
Gussakovskij 1930
: 203
, ♀.
Holotype
: ♀,
Kazakhstan
: Pavlodar Province, Pavlodar (ZISP), examined.
Ammophila cellularis
:
Bohart & Menke 1976
: 151
;
Kazenas 1978
: 37
, 1998b: 162, 2001b: 17, 2002a: 36;
Danilov 2009
: 57
, 2010: 45;
Dollfuss 2013a
: 393
, 418;
Pulawski 2015
.
Diagnosis.
The female of
A. cellularis
differs from all species with a petiolate submarginal cell III in having red legs. The male is unknown.
Description. Female.
Body length
18 mm
.
Head
. Mandible dark brown, with light brown patch medially. Clypeus with rounded ventral margin. Clypeus in the upper quarter, subantennal area and part of paraocular area covered with appressed silvery setae. Erect setae of head white. Flagellomeres black.
Mesosoma
. Black, pronotum and mesoscutum glabrous; mesoscutum slightly transversely striate and with irregular foveae. Mesopleuron covered with dense appressed silvery setae. Propodeum covered with sparse appressed silvery setae; posterolaterally covered with dense, appressed silvery setae. Erect setae white. Propodeal enclosure glabrous, obliquely striate. Tegula red.
Wings
. Hyaline; wing venation brown. Submarginal cell III petiolate.
Legs
. Red; coxa, trochanter, tarsi and hindtibia partly brown.
Metasoma
. Red, T5, T6 partly dark brown.
Material examined.
Kazakhstan
:
Holotype
of
Ammophila cellularis
Gussakovskij
, ♀, Pavlodar Province, Pavlodar [
76º57'E
52º18'N
],
10.VII.1928
, V.I. Belizin (
ZISP
).
Distribution.
North-Eastern
Kazakhstan
.
Remarks.
The species is known from the
holotype
only from the north-eastern
Kazakhstan
(not from
Russia
, as stated by
Dollfuss 2013a
and
Pulawski 2015
).