Dinetus (Venustidinetus) cereolus Morice, 1897

Jacobs, Hans-Joachim, 2021, A review of Dinetus Panzer, 1806 with descriptions of five new species and keys to world species (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae), Zootaxa 5061 (1), pp. 69-94 : 71-72

Dinetus (Venustidinetus) cereolus Morice, 1897

( Figs 13 , 43, 44 )

Dinetus cereolus Morice, 1897: 310 , ♀. Holotype: ♀, Egypt: Cairo area (UMO). Description female. Dorsal and lateral view: figs 43, 44.

Colour. Head yellow, vertex and mandibular apex black. Antenna reddish yellow. Pronotum yellow with ivory front- and hind margin and black spot medially. Scutum yellow and ivory with large black median spot extending about the whole length. Scutellum yellow. Metanotum black basally, yellow distally. Mesopleuron and metapleuron yellow. Propodeum yellow except a black dorso-medial stripe. Metasoma and legs yellow.

Morphology. Frons dull with very fine microsculpture, additionally with scattered puncture on vertex. Scutum, scutellum and mesopleuron smooth, shiny, nearly without microsculpture. Propodeal enclosure dull, the central part with distinct transverse striae (fig. 13). Head, thorax and metasomal terga without erect setae and silver pubescence. Fore tarsal rake with five spines, much longer than diameter of the basitarsus. Outer vein of subdiscoidal cell (cu) of fore wing vertical, parallel with the nervulus (cu-a) (see fig. 1). Body length 4.5 mm.

Male unknown.

Distribution. Egypt (type locality), Morocco.

Examined material. MOROCCO: 1 ♀ Bouarfa 10 km S, 20.05.1995, M. Halada leg. ( OLML) .

Figures

FIGURES 13–18. Propodeal enclosure: 13 D. cereolus ♀, 14 D. schmideggeri holotype ♂, 15 D. nabataeus ♀, 16 D. pulawskii ♂, 17 D. pictus ♀, 18 D. simplicipes ♀. (phot. Jacobs)

FIGURES 43–50. View dorsal and lateral: 43–44 D. cereolus ♀, 45–46 D. pictus ♀, 47–48 D. pictus ♂, 49 D. simplicipes ♀, 50 D. simplicipes ♂. (phot. Jacobs) (scale bar 1 mm)