Sphecodes brunneipes Friese, 1914 Figures 22-27

Sphecodes brunneipes Friese, 1914: 14, ♀ (holotype: ♀, Indonesia, Java, Buitzotg. Schmiedek. leg., Coll. Friese; ZMHB; examined, Fig. 27).

Diagnosis.

Unlike other species with simple mandibles in the female, this species has a preoccipital carina and a weakly curved basal vein in hind wing.

Descriptive notes.

Wings with brownish darkening; hind wing with the angle between basal (M) and cubital (Cu) veins ca. 70°, costal margin with seven hamuli. Lateral and dorsal preoccipital carina present. Female. Total body length 6-7 mm. Head (Fig. 23) strongly transverse, ca. 1.25 times as wide as long; vertex weakly elevated with distance from top of head to upper margin of lateral ocellus approximately a lateral ocellar diameter as seen in frontal view; F1 and F2 strongly transverse, 0.5 times as long as wide; F3 0.8 times as long as wide; face with confluent punctures, ocello-ocular area with dense punctures separated by at most a puncture diameter (Fig. 22); paraocular and supraclypeal areas with adpressed white pubescence obscuring integument. Gena with dense pubescence. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum (Fig. 25) coarsely and densely punctate (25-50 μm), the punctures separated by at most two puncture diameters; mesepisternum reticulate-rugose (Fig. 24); propodeal triangle (metapostnotum) coarsely reticulate-rugose, lateral parts of propodeum with fine wrinkles (strigose). Metasomal terga definitely punctate (Fig. 26), finely on T1 (ca. 10 μm) and more coarsely on the remaining terga (10-25 μm); marginal zones impunctate; T1 and T2 red, coloration of T3 and T4 variable; pygidial plate dull, widely rounded apically, 1.4 times as wide as metabasitarsus. Male unknown.

Published records.

Friese 1914: 14 (Indonesia); Ascher and Pickering 2019 (Indonesia).

Material examined.

Indonesia: 2 ♀♀, Lombok, near Senggigi, 18.V.2012, M. Mokrousov (ZISP).

Distribution.

Indonesia.