Pison pertinax Turner, 1908

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Pison pertinax Turner

Figures 811 -819.

Pison pertinax Turner, 1908:517 , ♀. Lectotype: ♀, Australia: Queensland: Mackay (BMNH), present designation, examined. – Turner, 1916b:595 (in key to Australian Pison ), 599 (coloration, locality records); R. Bohart and Menke, 1976:336 (in checklist of world Sphecidae ); Cardale, 1985:261 (in catalog of Australian Sphecidae ).

LECTOTYPE DESIGNATION.– In his original description of P. pertinax, Turner (1908) indicated more than one specimen examined (“January to May”), but did not indicated their exact number. Of the eight specimens present in The Natural History, London, I have labeled one as the lectotype and the remaining seven as paralectotypes.

and episternal sulcus. Metapleural sulcus well defined, not costulate between dorsal and ventral metapleural pits. Propodeum with irregular longitudinal carina separating side from dorsum and posterior surface and extending from gastral socket area toward spiracle, with short transverse ridges emerging from its admedian side (admedian side slightly concave); dorsum punctate (interspaces merging into ridges that are mostly inconspicuous but conspicuous basally) or obliquely ridged (punctate between ridges); side punctate, with a few ridges beneath spiracle; posterior surface ridged. Forewing with two submarginal cells; posterior margin of second cell equal to 1.6-1.9 × its height ( Fig. 815 ). Posteroventral forefemoral surface microscopically, closely punctate. Hindcoxal dorsum with outer margin not carinate. Punctures of tergum I minute, about one diameter apart. Sterna minutely, closely punctate throughout.

All body setae silvery, appressed, inconspicuous, on lower frons oriented ventrad, on upper frons (between dorsal end o midfrontal carina and midocellus) oriented dorsally, on clypeus silvery and not concealing integument, not forming setal fasciae on apical depressions of terga.

Head, thorax, propodeum, and femora black; mandible black basally and apically, ferruginous mesally; antenna ferruginous (scape, pedicel, and apical flagellomeres dark dorsally in most specimens, apical flagellomere all dark in some specimens); tibiae and tarsi ferruginous in most specimens, but all black in single specimen from Kuranda , Queensland; gaster in most specimens ferruginous, but tergum I and most of terga II and III black in female from Wollemi National Park, all gaster black in female from Kuranda and that from Nadgee Nature Reserve.

♀.– Upper interocular distance 0.95-1.0 × lower interocular distance; ocellocular distance equal to 0.9 × hindocellar diameter, distance between hindocelli 1.0-1.1 × hindocellar diameter; eye height equal to 1.04-1.08 × distance between eye notches. Clypeus with carina at base of lamella, surface concave between carina and free margin; free margin gently, evenly arcuate orbit to orbit or only minimally concave on each side of middle section ( Fig. 811 ), lobe practically not differentiated. Dorsal length of flagellomere I 2.2-2.5 × apical width, of flagellomere IX 0.9 × apical width. Mandible bidentate apically, ventral tooth broad ( Fig. 813 ); trimmal carina minimally incised shortly beyond midlength. Length 6.8-7.2 mm; head width 1.6-1.8 mm.

♂.– Upper interocular distance equal to 1.23 × lower interocular distance; ocellocular distance equal to 0.8 × hindocellar diameter, distance between hindocelli equal to 1.0 × hindocellar diameter; eye height equal to 1.12 × distance between eye notches. Free margin of clypeal lamella roundly arcuate ( Fig. 812 ). Dorsal length of flagellomere I 2.0 × apical width, of flagellomere X 0.8 × apical width. Sternum VIII broadly emarginate apically ( Fig. 816 ). Genitalia: Figs. 817, 818 . Length 5.7 mm; head width 1.3 mm.

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION (Fig. 819).–

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia.

RECORDS.– AUSTRALIA: New South Wales:

Coolbaggie Forest Reserve 10 km E Eumungerie at

31°58.5ʹS 148°40.5ʹE (2 ♀, CAS), Kinchega National Park at 32°23.7ʹS 142°22.7ʹE (1 ♀, CAS), Lake

George Cullerin (1 ♀, UCD), 0.5 km SE Lansdowne

(1 ♀, ANIC), Lorien Wildlife Refuge 3 km N and ca

1 km NNW Lansdowne near Taree (1 ♀, AMS) ,

Nadgee Nature Reserve south of Newton’s Beach

(1 ♀, ANIC), 23 km SE Tamworth (1 ♀, ANIC) ,

Warrumbungle National Park at 31°16.9ʹS

148°59.1ʹE (2 ♀, 1 ♂, CAS), Wollemi National Park

(northern edge) at 32°23.4ʹS 150°24.8ʹE (1 ♀, CAS). FIGURE 819. Collecting localities of Pison pertinax Turner.

Northern Territory: Gregory National Park at

15°58ʹ17ʺS 130°29ʹ17ʺE (1 ♀, ANIC) , Serpentine Gorge in West MacDonnell National Park 84 km W Alice Springs at 23°45.0ʹS 132°58.7ʹE (1 ♀, CAS) . Queensland : Brisbane (1 ♀, ANIC) , Cairns (Turner, 1916b), Carnarvon National Park at 25°04.0ʹS 148°14.7ʹE (1 ♀, CAS) , Eungella National Park at 21°10.5ʹS 148°30.3ʹE (9 ♀, CAS) , 16 km N Heathlands Homestead at 11°41ʹS 142°42ʹE (1 ♀, QMB) , Homevale National Park at 21°26.9ʹS 148°32.4ʹE (3 ♀, CAS) , Kuranda (1 ♀, BMNH) , Mackay (12 ♀, BMNH, including lectotype and 7 paralectotypes of Pison pertinax ), Mission Beach (1 ♀, AMS) . South Australia : Elder Range, (1 ♂, SAM) , Oraparinna Creek in Flinders Ranges National Park at 31°21ʹS 138°42ʹE (4 ♀, ANIC) , 79 km NNW Renmark at 33°31ʹS 140°24ʹE (1 ♀, ANIC) , Wilpena in Flinders Ranges National Park at 31°31.7ʹS 138°36.2ʹE (1 ♀, CAS) .

Figures

FIGURES 811-815. Pison pertinax Turner. (811) Female clypeus and mandibles; (812) Male clypeus and mandibles; (813) Left mandible of female; (814) Female tegula and adjacent scutum; (815) Apical part of forewing.

FIGURES 816-818. Pison pertinax Turner, male. (816) Sternum VIII (ventral surface); (817) Genitalia in dorsal view; (818) Genitalia in lateral view.