Ammophila pachythoracalis YANG & LI, 1989

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Ammophila pachythoracalis YANG & LI ( Figs 707-715 )

Ammophila pachythoracalis YANG & LI 1989: 107 , 3. Holotype: 3, China: Shaanxi Province: Ganquan County: Quingquan (Beijing Agricultural University ), not examined.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d:None.

D e s c r i p t i o n: (YANG & LI 1989: 107, translated from Chinese by Yan Chengjin): "3: Body length 17.0 mm. Black; petiole apex ventrally, tergum I largely, tergum II, sternum II, base of tergum III and sternum III yellowish red; gastral apex black without metallic blue luster; posterior part of tegula and wings pale yellowish brown, veins dark brown. Vertex, frons, gena and prosternum with long white setae, other areas with sparse, short setae. Pronotal lobe sparsely pubescent at middle, gastral petiole basally pubescent. Vertex, frons and clypeus sparsely punctate, with supra-antennal projection; anterior margin of clypeus emarginate medially. Postocellar diameter (ODD): postocellar distance (POD): oculocellar distance (OOD): interocular distance at anterior ocellus (IODP): interocular distance at clypeus (IODC) = 1: 2: 3: 9: 4.4. Relative length of antennal pedicel: flagellomeres I: II: III: IX = 1.7: 4.3: 2: 2: 1.7. Pronotal collar: length: width = 4.5: 9, sparsely punctate, with deep median furrow; anterior slope swollen, with transverse, dense, slender striae. Scutum with short admedian line, transversely, densely, finely striate and punctate; scutellum longitudinally striate; metanotum without distinct striae; propodeal enclosure with median carina, coarsely, obliquely striate laterally. Mesopleuron and mesosternum transversely striate and punctate, episternal sulcus present; metapleuron and lateral side of propodeum coarsely rugose-striate. Submarginal cell III petiolate. Claws simple, with arolia. Hindleg: relative length of tibia: tarsi I: II: III = 22.2: 11.7: 6.3: 4.9. Length of gastral petiole: terga I: II = 17: 15: 10.7. Genitalia with penis valves as in Fig. 712, 713 , volsella as in Fig. 715 , and gonostyli as in Fig. 714 .

♀ unknown.

R e l a t i o n s h i p s:Thisnewspeciesisrelatedto A. ganquana YANG & LI (1989) and A. obliquestriolis YANG & LI (1989) but it differs from A. obliquestriolis in having a swollen pronotal collar and a different shape of genitalia, as well as the sculpture of the scutellum and prodeal enclosure."

G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: China (ShaanxiProvince).

Figures

Figs 697-715: (697-706) A. menghaiana: (697) submarginal cells of female, (698) clypeus and mandible of female, (699) foretarsomere I-II of female, (700) prothorax of female in lateral view, (701) female flagellum, (702) pronotal collar of female in dorsal view, (703) clypeus and mandible of male, (704) penis valve in lateral view, (705) genitalia in ventral view, (706) gonostyle in lateral view (LI & YANG 1989: 35); (707-715) A. pachythoracalis male: (707) head in frontal view, (708) pronotal lobe in dorsal view, (709) submarginal cells, (710) prothorax in lateral view, (711) flagellum, (712) penis valve in lateral view, (713) penis valve inventral view, (714) gonostyle in lateral view, (715) genitalia in ventral view (YANG & LI 1989: 108).