Podalonia erythropus (F. SMITH 1856)

Mith, 2013, The Ammophilini Wasps of the " Biologiezentrum Linz " - Collection in Linz, Austria (part 2) including the Genera Ammophila KIRBY and Podalonia FERNALD (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Sphecidae), and description of the hitherto unknown male of Podalonia erythropus (F. SMITH 1856), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (1), pp. 565-591 : 590

Podalonia erythropus (F. SMITH 1856) 3

R e c o g n i t i o n:Themaleof Podalonia erythropus has a propodeal enclosure with erect setae, the legs, the free margin of the clypeus, the petiole (partly) and the gaster basally are reddish-brown. The gastral apex has no metallic shine. The male of P. erythropus is similar to P. canescens but differs in having reddish-brown legs ( P. canescens has black legs). The male of P. tydei differs from P. erythropus in having a clypeal free margin slightly arcuate laterally and black legs ( P. erythropus has a clypeal free margin broadly produced and reddish-brown legs).

D e s c r i p t i o n 3: 17 mm. Black, with the following reddish-brown: mandible (except apex), free margin of clypeus, scape and pedicel ventrally, tegula, wing veins, legs (except coxa), petiole ventrally and gastral segments I-IV (dorsally darkened). Clypeus, frons, pronotal lobe posteriorly and mesopleuron (finely) covered with appressed silvery setae; Clypeus broadly produced as in P. canescens (see DOLLFUSS 2010b: 1287, fig. 122), pronotal collar punctate, scutum densely coarsely punctate and scutellum longitudinally striate. Mesopleuron and mesopleural venter densely, coarsely punctate.Propodeal enclosure punctato-rugose and all covered with erect setae. Propodeum laterally coarsely punctato-rugose. Episternal sulcus indistinctly developed, arolia large and claws without basal tooth. Length of petiole = hindtarsomere I+II; OOD: POD = 20: 15. Genitalia as in P. canescens .

G e o g r a p h i c d i s t r i b u t i o n: Senegal, Cameroon, Gambia.

R e c o r d s:13, Allotype: Senegal ( St. Louis ), det. Kohl ( NHMW).

The following modifications should be made in my key for the males of the genus

Podalonia of the Old World ( DOLLFUSS 2010b: 1248):

16 Penis valve in lateral view with large thorn apicoventrally (fig. 52). Mesopleuron covered with more or less appressed silvery setae. .........................................................16a

- Penis valve in ventral view with tiny teeth (fig. 35); mesopleuron with fine appressed silvery setae; terga I-III (partly IV) light brown; 11-20 mm. North Africa, West Sahara, Canary Islands.............................................................................. P. mauritanica (MERCET)

16a Legs (partly), free margin of clypeus and petiole (partly) reddish-brown. 17 mm. Senegal, Cameroon, Gambia. ........................................................ P. erythropus (F. SMITH)

- Legs, clypeus and petiole black.........................................................................................17