Podalonia parvula 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

Podalonia parvula LI & YANG Figs 130 - 135

Podalonia parvula LI & YANG 1992: 88 ,. Holotype:, China: Nei Mongol Province: Bayanner League: Urad Front Banner (Beijing Agricultural University ).

D e s c r i p t i o n o f m a l e translated from Chinese by Q. Li: "Body length 10.5 mm. Black; abdominal petiole apically, terga I-III whole, IV basally, sterna I-III whole, and IV basally reddish yellow; apical half of mandible reddish yellow; leg femur, tibia tarsi, and abdominal petiole largely dark red; posterior half of tegula and wings pale yellow, veins pale brown. Vertex and frons with white and black long setae, other portion of head and thorax with white long setae; lower frons and upper clypeus laterally with appressed silver setae, mesopleuron and metapleuron with sparse appressed silver setae.

Vertex with sparse, large punctures; frons with dense, large punctures; clypeus with sparse, fine, and inconspicuous punctures. Median portion of clypeus flat, anterior margin prominent shortly (fig. 130). OOD: POD: OOD: IODP: IODC: length of antennal scape (fig. 133): pedicel: flagellomere I: II: II: X = 1: 3: 4: 11.6: 6.9: 3: 1.1: 4.1: 3.8: 4: 3.

Pronotal collar length: width = 4.7: 8, with middling density punctures, without carina and longitudinal furrow. Scutum with punctures denser than that on pronotal colar; scutellum and metanotum with sparse punctures. Propodeal enclosure with coarse, irregularly, transverse rugae, with incomplete median carina. Mesopleuron with episternal sulcus; punctures on upper mesopleuron and mesosternum same as that on scutum. Metapleuron and propodeal side with coarse, oblique rugae, with punctures between rugae. Forewing (fig. 133). Relative length of hind tibia: tarsomere I: II: III: abdominal petiole = 22: 12.5: 7: 5: 14. Genitalia (figs 132, 134, 135), penis valve with a large thorn apicoventrally larger than in P. tydei (GUILLOU) ."

Female 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.

Figures

Figs 130-135: male of Podalonia parvula (Li & Yang 1992:88): (130) clypeus frontal; (131) flagellomers I. II; (132) penis valve lateral; (133) marginal cell of forewing; (134) volsella; (135) gonostyle.