Ammophila heteroclypeola LI & XUE, 1998

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Ammophila heteroclypeola LI & XUE ( Figs 679-687 )

Ammophila heteroclypeola LI & XUE 1998: 181 , ♀, 3. Holotype: ♀, China: Xingjiang : Wujiagu (Zheiyang 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 & XUE 1998: 181, translated from Cinese by Yan Chengjin): " ♀: Bodylength 14.8 -15.1 mm. Black; anterior half of tegula, gastral petiole, terga I-IV and sterna II-IV wholly, tergum V and sternum V partly yellowish red; tibia and tarsi, mandibles and antennae brown to dark brown. Gastral apex black, without steel blue luster; wings pale yellowish brown, veins brown to dark brown. Upper clypeus and lower frons, pronotal lobe, prepeptus, mesopleuron and posterior sides of propodeum covered with dense appressed silvery setae; gena, prothorax except collar above, mesosternum, metapleuron, metasternum, propodeum except propodeal enclosure, coxae and femora of legs with sparse appressed silvery setae; head and thorax with long, erect, white setae. Clypeus densely punctate, disk slightly bulging, free margin with two lateral teeth ( Fig. 679 ). Frons densely punctate, without supra-antennal projection. Vertex sparsely punctate. POD: OOD: IODP: IODC = 22: 30: 96: 72. Relative length of antennal pedicel: flagellomeres I: II: VIII: IX = 13: 48: 30: 28: 18: 17. Pronotal collar ( Fig. 684 ): length: width = 34: 90, shiny, sparsely punctate, with median furrow. Scutum shiny, sparsely punctate, sides of anterior half and medial region of posterior half irregularly, transversely or obliquely rugose-striate. Scutellum shiny, longitudinally rugose-striate and punctate. Metanotum shiny, densely punctate. Mesopleuron with episternal sulcus, other structures covered by dense, appressed silvery setae. Metapleuron coarsely, irregularly rugose-striate. Propodeal enclosure with median carina, its sides irregularly obliquely rugose-striate; lateral area of propodeum coarsely, irregularly rugose-striate. Submarginal cell III petiolate ( Fig. 682 ). Foretarsus with rakes ( Fig. 685 ); hindleg: relative length of tarsomeres I: II: III = 115: 65: 53. Length of gastral petiole: terga I: II = 145: 125: 108.

3: Body length 15 mm. Similar to female. Terga I-III and sterna II-III wholly, tergum IV and sternum IV partly yellowish red; mandibles, antennae, wing tegulae, legs, gaster except yellowish red area dark reddish brown; wing veins yellowish brown to brown. Free margin of clypeus without tooth (fig. 680). POD: OOD: IODP: IODC = 21: 30: 96: 41. Relativ length of antennal pedicel: flagellomeres I: II: III: VIII: IX = 14: 46: 28: 28: 17: 15. Pronotal collar length: width = 40: 86. Scutum coarsely, densely and obliquely rugose-striate. Foretarsal rake absent. Hindleg: relative length of tarsomere I: II: III = 110: 59: 58. Length of gastral petiole: terga I: II = 164: 144: 102. Genitalia: gonostyle: Fig. 683 , volsella: Fig. 686 , and penis valves: Fig. 687.

R e l a t i o n s h i p s: This species is closely related to A. clypeola YANG & LI 1990 . It can be easily distinguished from the latter by the clypeal disk being only slightly bulging, the sculpture and punctures of the scutum, metapleuron and propodeum, the body coloration, appressed silvery setae on clypeus, frons, mesopleuron, metapleuron and lateral area of propodeum, and by the male genitalia."

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 (Xingiang).

Figures

Figs 679-696: (679-687) A. heteroclypeola: (679) female head in frontal view, (680) male head in frontal view, (681) female flagellum, (682) submarginal cells of female, (683) gonostyle in lateral view, (684) pronotal collare of female in lateral view, (685) female foretarsomeres I-II, (686) volsella in ventral view, (687) penis valve in lateral view (LI & XUE 1998: 182); (688-696) A. obliquestriolae male: (688) head in frontal view, (689) submarginal cells, (690) pronotal collar in lateral view, (691) pronotal collar in dorsal view, (692) flagellum, (693) penis valve in ventral view, (694) penis valve in lateral view, (695) gonostyle in lateral view, (696) genitalia in ventral view (YANG & LI 1989: 107).