Podalonia pilosa LI & YANG

Dollfuss, H., 2010, A Key to Wasps of the Genus Podalonia FERNALD 1927 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) of the Old World, Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2), pp. 1241-1291 : 1263-1264

Podalonia pilosa LI & YANG Figs 136-139

Podalonia pilosa LI & YANG 1995: 194 ,. Holotype:, China: Xinjiang Province: Shihezi (Beijing Agricultural University ).

D e s c r i p t i o n o f f e m a l e translated from Chinese by Q. Li: " Body length 16 mm. Black; abdominal petiole apically, terga I-IV whole, and V basally, sterna II-IV whole and V largely reddish yellow; mandible medially reddish yellow; wing pale yel- low, apical margin slightly black, veins pale brown. Head and thorax with dense, white long setae; upper frons and lower clypeus with black long setae mixed with white long setae; frons medially, clypeus upper and medially, mesopleuron, outer side of fore and mid coxa with very dense appressed silver setae; gena, metapleuron and propodeal side with sparse appressed silver setae.

Vertex and clypeus with sparse, shallow punctures; frons medially with dense, deep punctures. Clypeus (fig. 137) slightly bulging medially, anterior margin prominent. Distance between fore ocellus and eye shorter than length of antennal flagellomere I. OOD: POD: OOD: IODP: IODC: length of antennal scape (fig.139): pedicel: flagellomere I: II: III: IX = 1: 1.9: 3.1: 9.8: 9: 3: 1: 4.7: 3: 3: 1.9.

Pronotal collar length: width = 4: 8.5, shiny with sparse punctures, without an evident carina and longitudinal furrow. Scutum shiny, with median dense, deep punctures. Scutellum and metanotum shiny, with sparse punctures. Propodeal enclosure with dense punctures, without carina, with incomplete median carina, surface rough. Mesopleuron with episternal sulcus, punctures and shine as on scutum.

Metapleuron and propodeal side with punctures mixed with short rugae, surface rough. Forewing (fig. 138). Fore tarsomeres I-IV (fig. 136). Foretarsal rake well developed. Relative length of hindtibia: tarsomere I: II: III: abdominal petiole = 19.5: 10.8: 6: 4.5: 8.5."

Male unknown.

G e o g r a p h i c d i s t r i b u t i o n: China.

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d:None.