Gonaporus omanicus Wolf, 1990

Zonstein, Irina & Wahis, Raymond, 2015, Revision of the Palaearctic genus Gonaporus Ashmead, 1902 of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Zootaxa 4018 (4), pp. 451-505 : 486-487

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Gonaporus omanicus Wolf, 1990 View in CoL

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Gonaporus omanicus Wolf, 1990: 634 View in CoL (holotype, ♀: OMAN: Muscat, Ruwi, 2.III.1976, K.M. Guichard [BMNH], examined).

Diagnosis. G. omanicus is most similar to G. ecbatanus , differing from it and from all other congeners by the almost entirely black body coloration ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 5 – 10 ). The shape of the subgenital plate and genitalia are very similar to those of G. ecbatanus . For more characters see Tables 1 and 2.

Redescription. Female. Body length 7.1–9.0 mm. Structure see in Table 1. Coloration ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 5 – 10 ): Head mostly black; inner orbit with narrow orange stripe along eye margin; clypeus mostly black, narrowly orange to blackishbrown apically; mandible mostly yellow to yellowish-orange, brown-orange on apical 0.3; antenna blackish-brown sometimes orange-brown ventrally. Mesosoma mostly black; pronotum mostly black, narrowly brown lateroventrally; tegula blackish-brown. Legs entirely dark brown to mostly brown with coxae narrowly orangebrown apically; femora narrowly orange-brown anteroventral; tibiae narrowly orange-brown basally, pro- and mesotibia also apically. Spur of fore leg yellowish-brown basally, blackish apically; other spurs blackish-brown; spines of tarsal comb brown; other leg spines dark orange-brown. Metasoma mostly blackish-brown; T1–3 dark orange lateroapically, in one female all metasomal segments orange-brown laterally. Setae: Clypeus with moderately long relatively stout reddish setae; occiput and propleuron with long fine whitish setae; procoxa anteriorly with few long fine whitish setae. Protarsomere 1 with 3 long spines posteriorly ( Fig. 138 View FIGURES 131 – 141 ) and 1 short to long spine anteroventrally.

Male. Body length 8.1 mm. Structure: see Table 2. Subgenital plate and genitalia similar to G. ecbatanus (examined without being dissected from the specimen). Coloration: Head mostly black; clypeus mostly black, apical 0.33 orange; mandible mostly yellowish-orange, orange-brown on apical 0.33; antenna dark blackish-brown. Mesosoma black. Legs mostly black; coxae, femora and protibia narrowly brown apically; metasoma mostly black; T1–4 brown lateroapically. Pubescence: T6 apically and T7 dorsally with white pubescence. Setae: Occiput and propleuron with quite numerous fine long setae variable from whitish to brownish.

Material examined. Holotype ♀: OMAN: Muscat, Ruwi, 2.iii.1976, K.M. Guichard ( BMNH). Paratype: ♂, OMAN: Muscat, Ruwi, 2.iii.1976, K.M. Guichard ( BMNH). Other material. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Wadi Maidaq, yellow & white watertraps, 25°18'N 56°07'E, 28-30.xi.2005, A.van Harten, 1♀; idem 1♀ (Leiden, CRW); Wadi Hayl, 25°08'N 56°21'E, 11–19.iii.2009, Shmid-Egger, 1♀(CSE); Sharjah Desert park, light trap, 25°17'N 55°42'E, 20.x–8.xi.2005, A.van Harten, 1♀, ( CRW).

Distribution. United Arab Emirates, Oman ( Fig. 217 View FIGURE 217 ).

Habitat. Desert areas, according to the label data.

Biology. Unknown.