Ammophila cellularis Gussakovskij, 1930

Danilov, Yuriy N., 2015, New and little known digger wasps of the genus Ammophila W. Kirby, 1798 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) from Central Asia, Zootaxa 3964 (5), pp. 537-545 : 539-540

Ammophila cellularis Gussakovskij, 1930

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Ammophila cellularis Gussakovskij 1930: 203 , ♀. Holotype: ♀, Kazakhstan: Pavlodar Province, Pavlodar (ZISP), examined. Ammophila cellularis: Bohart & Menke 1976: 151 ; Kazenas 1978: 37, 1998b: 162, 2001b: 17, 2002a: 36; Danilov 2009: 57, 2010: 45; Dollfuss 2013a: 393, 418; Pulawski 2015.

Diagnosis. The female of A. cellularis differs from all species with a petiolate submarginal cell III in having red legs. The male is unknown.

Description. Female. Body length 18 mm. Head. Mandible dark brown, with light brown patch medially. Clypeus with rounded ventral margin. Clypeus in the upper quarter, subantennal area and part of paraocular area covered with appressed silvery setae. Erect setae of head white. Flagellomeres black. Mesosoma . Black, pronotum and mesoscutum glabrous; mesoscutum slightly transversely striate and with irregular foveae. Mesopleuron covered with dense appressed silvery setae. Propodeum covered with sparse appressed silvery setae; posterolaterally covered with dense, appressed silvery setae. Erect setae white. Propodeal enclosure glabrous, obliquely striate. Tegula red. Wings. Hyaline; wing venation brown. Submarginal cell III petiolate. Legs. Red; coxa, trochanter, tarsi and hindtibia partly brown. Metasoma. Red, T5, T6 partly dark brown.

Material examined. Kazakhstan: Holotype of Ammophila cellularis Gussakovskij , ♀, Pavlodar Province, Pavlodar [76º57'E 52º18'N], 10.VII.1928, V.I. Belizin ( ZISP).

Distribution. North-Eastern Kazakhstan.

Remarks. The species is known from the holotype only from the north-eastern Kazakhstan (not from Russia, as stated by Dollfuss 2013a and Pulawski 2015).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Collecting localities of new and little known Ammophila.

FIGURES 8 – 10. 8. Ammophila cellularis Gussakovskij: holotype, lateral view, labels; 9 – 10. Ammophila separanda F. Morawitz: specimens, lateral view, labels; 10. Lectotype, female; 11. Paralectotype, male.