Dinetus (Dentidinetus) turanicus Kazenas, 1993

Jacobs, Hans-Joachim, 2021, A review of Dinetus Panzer, 1806 with descriptions of five new species and keys to world species (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae), Zootaxa 5061 (1), pp. 69-94 : 87-88

Dinetus (Dentidinetus) turanicus Kazenas, 1993

Dinetus turanicus Kazenas, 1993: 59 , ♀, ♂. Holotype: ♀, Turkmenistan: Repetek (ZIN).

Description female (after Kazenas 2000).

Colour. Yellow or whitish yellow are basal half of mandible, clypeus except red border, frons up to the front ocellus except the median part, narrow bands on outer orbit, front of scape, spots on antennomeres 2‒4, prothorax almost, spots on mesopleuron on the lower part and below the tegula, scutellum, postscutellum, spots on the upper parts of metapleuron, border of propodeal enclosure, bands or lateral spots on terga I‒III and pygidium. Antenna mostly dark brown. Metasoma red except yellow parts. Fore coxa mostly pale yellow, femur yellow with black and ivory parts. Mid and hind legs mostly or completely reddish. Wing veins reddish.

Morphology. Front margin of clypeus regular arched, median slightly excised. Antennomere 3 nearly 4× as long as broad. Mesosoma with dense silver pubescence, masking the sculpture. Head and thorax with long and curved setae between the appressed pubescence. Propodeal enclosure on the proximal quarter with longitudinal striae distally ending in a furrow, obliquely ridged in the apical part, finely reticulated, hardly shiny. Terga densely and finely punctured, with reticulated microsculpture, apically with bands of appressed silver setae. Outer vein of subdiscoidal cell (cu) vertical, parallel with the nervulus (cu-a) (see fig. 1) (after Du et al. 2019). Body length 5.5–7.0 mm.

Description male (after Kazenas 2000).

Colour. Colour and pubescence generally similar to female. Antenna yellow, apical antennomeres reddish. Frons, underside of head and thorax yellow. Tergum I with big yellow spot, V reddish-yellow, VI‒VII pale yellow. Fore femur without black or brown spots.

Morphology. Sculpture and pubescence similar to female. Clypeus protruding with excised apex.Antenna stout, apical antennomere strongly flattened, 2× as long as broad. Fore trochanter without teeth. Fore femur without tooth or basal edge. Body length 4.0– 5.5 mm.

Distribution. Turkmenistan (type locality), Uzbekistan ( Mokrousov & Zryanin 2015), Kazakhstan ( Kazenas 2002).

No material examined.