Ammophila clypeola LI & YANG, 1990

Dollfuss, H., 2013, Revision of the Wasps Genus Ammophila KIRBY 1798 (Hymenoptera Apoidea Sphecidae) of the Palearctic Region and India, Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (1), pp. 383-564 : 421

Ammophila clypeola LI & YANG ( Figs 613 /b-619)

Ammophila clypeola LI & YANG 1990: 262 , ♀. Holotype: ♀, China: Nei Mongol: Dongsheng County: Neimenggu (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: (LI & YANG 1990: 262, translated from Chinese by Yan Chengjin): " ♀: Body length 15.0 mm. Black; petiole apex ventrally, terga I-II, sterna II-III, side of tergum IV basally dark red, but with dark spot; gastral apex without metallic blue luster; posterior part of tegula and wings pale yellowish brown, veins pale brown. Vertex and clypeus with sparse, long setae, pale brown or white; gena and prosternum with more long setae, pale brown or white. Pronotal lobe, mesopleuron posteriorly and propodeum posterolaterally covered with dense appressed setae. Gastral petiole basally with sparse pubescence. Vertex, frons and clypeus sparsely punctate, without supra-antennal projection. Clypeus medially with roughly spherical protuberance. Postocellar diameter (ODD) = postocellar distance (POD): oculocellar distance (OOD): interocular distance at anterior ocellus (IODP): interocular distance at clypeus (IODC) = 1: 2.1: 3.6: 10: 8.7. Relative length of antennal pedicel: flagellomeres I: II: III = 1.4: 4.6: 2.7: 2. Pronotal collar length: width = 3.8: 9.6, sparsely punctate, with deep median furrow; transversely, densely, slenderly striate on anterior slope, laterally coarsely striate. Scutum sparsely punctate, with long admedian line. Scutellum coarsely, longitudinally rugose-striate; metanotum without distinct striae. Propodeal enclosure without median carina, surface obliquely slenderly striate laterally. Mesopleuron and mesosternal sparsely punctate, with episternal sulcus; medial region of anterior half of mesosternum normal. Metapleuron and lateral side of propodeum coarsely rugose-striate. Submarginal cell III of forewing petiolate. Foretarsus asymmetrical; hindleg, relative length of tibia: tarsus I: II: III = 21.2: 11.3: 6.3: 5.3, claw simple, with arolia. Length of gastral petiole: tergite I: II = 15.4: 14.4: 10.7.

3 unknown.

R e l a t i o n s h i p s. This new species is related to A. campestris LATREILLE (1809) , but the latter can be easily distinguished from it by the gena and prothorax with long black setae, scutum transversely rugose-striate, propodeal enclosure with median carina."

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 (Nei Mongol).

Figures

Figs 609-619: (609) A. lativalvis: gaster apex in lateral view; (610) A. punctata: hypostomal carina in lateral view; (611) A. abnormis: male genitalia: cuspis in lateral view; (612) A. smithii: male genitalia (JHA & FAROOQI 1994: 8); (613/a) A. abnormis: hypostomal carina in lateral view; (613/b-619) A. clypeola: (613/b) head in frontal view, (614) head in lateral view, (615) flagellomeres, (616) pronotal collar laterally, (617) pronotal collar dorsally, (618) forewing, (619) foretarsomeres I-II (YANG & LI 1990: 262).