Gonaporus mirabilis I. Zonstein & Wahis

Zonstein, Irina & Wahis, Raymond, 2015, Revision of the Palaearctic genus Gonaporus Ashmead, 1902 of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Zootaxa 4018 (4), pp. 451-505 : 486

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5665475
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scientific name	Gonaporus mirabilis I. Zonstein & Wahis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Gonaporus mirabilis I. Zonstein & Wahis View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs 94 View FIGURES 92 – 95 , 116 View FIGURES 110 – 120 , 137 View FIGURES 131 – 141 , 148 View FIGURES 142 – 152 , 159 View FIGURES 153 – 159 , 170 View FIGURES 167 – 174 , 181 View FIGURES 175 – 181 , 191 View FIGURES 189 – 195 )

Diagnosis. The female of this species differs from all congeners by the presence of five posterior spines of the tarsal comb on the protarsomere 1 ( Fig. 137 View FIGURES 131 – 141 ). The congeners have three, four or six such spines. For more characters, see Table 1.

Description. Female. Body length 7.9–8.7 mm. Structure see Table 1. Coloration: Head mostly black; clypeus mostly orange to orange on apical half and black on basal; mandible mostly yellow, brown-orange on apical 0.4; scape orange to orange ventrally, brown dorsally; pedicel brown; flagellum brown dorsally, yellowish-brown to orange-brown ventrally. Mesosoma mostly black; pronotum mostly black, narrowly orange-brown laterally and posteriorly; tegula yellowish-orange to brown-orange. Legs mostly orange; coxae black basally; tarsi orange basally, brown apically or entirely brown; spurs yellowish basally, blackish apically; spines of tarsal comb orange, darkened apically; other leg spines orange-brown. Metasoma orange. Pygidium orange-brown. Setae: In female from Karachi frons and vertex with short brown setae, clypeus with moderately long relatively stout reddish setae; in other two females frons, vertex and clypeus lacking setae; occiput and propleuron with short fine whitish setae. Protarsomere 1 with 5 long spines posteriorly ( Fig. 137 View FIGURES 131 – 141 ) and 2 very short spines anteroventrally.

Male. Body length 7.0 mm. Structure: see Table 2. Subgenital plate and genitalia not examined. Coloration: Head mostly black; clypeus orange apically and medially and black latero-basally; mandible mostly yellowish, orange-brown on apical 0.33; antenna dark brown dorsally and orange-brown ventrally. Mesosoma mostly black; pronotum with orange areas anteriorly and laterally; metapleura orange. Legs: trochanters, coxae, femora and tibiae orange; tarsi brown. Metasoma: Segments 1–3 orange; segment 4 orange basally and black apically; other segments black; T7 with large white spot. Setae: Occiput and propleuron with few fine whitish setae.

Etymology. The specific epithet mirabilis (Latin) , meaning "extraordinary", denotes the unique number of tarsal comb setae on the female protarsomere 1.

Material examined. Holotype: ♀, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Suweihan Rd., 9.iv.1988, I. L. Hamer ( BMNH). Paratypes: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: N of Ajman, water traps, 5–16.vii.2008, A. van Harten, 1♀ ( CRW). PAKISTAN: Karachi, Bombey Presidency, 1910, E. Comber, 1♀ ( BMNH). Other material. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: N of Ajman, water traps, 5–16.vii.2008, A. van Harten, 1♂ ( CRW).

Distribution. Pakistan, United Arab Emirates ( Fig. 216 View FIGURE 216 ).

Habitat. Judging from the label data, most probably arid areas.

Biology. Unknown.