Ceropales Latreille, 1796

Anju, K., Thejass, P., Binoy, C. & Kumar, P. Girish, 2023, Taxonomic study on the spider wasp genus Ceropales Latreille, 1796 (Pompilidae: Ceropalinae) with description of two new species from India, Zootaxa 5264 (1), pp. 119-128 : 120-121

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.1.8

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scientific name

Ceropales Latreille, 1796
status

sensu stricto

Subgenus Ceropales Latreille, 1796 View in CoL View at ENA sensu stricto

Ceropales Latreille, 1796: 123 View in CoL .

Type species: Evania maculata Fabricius, 1775 , by subsequent monotypy of Latreille 1810: 437.

Agenioxenus Ashmead, 1902: 137 . Type species: Ceropales rufiventris Walsh & Riley, 1869 View in CoL = robinsonii Cresson, 1867 View in CoL , by original designation. Junior subjective synonym of Ceropales Latreille, 1796 View in CoL according to Viereck 1902: 275.

Ceratopales Schulz, 1906: 174 View in CoL . Subsequent misspelling of Ceropales Latreille, 1796 View in CoL .

Hypsiceraeus Morice & Durant, 1915: 403 View in CoL , 405. Type species: Evania maculata Fabricius, 1775 , by original designation. Junior subjective synonym of Ceropales Latreille, 1796 View in CoL according to Wahis 1986: 34.

Bifidoceropales Wolf, 1965: 72 (as subgenus of Ceropales View in CoL ). Type species: Ceropales (Bifidoceropales) pygmaeus Kohl, 1880 View in CoL , by original designation. Synonymy with Ceropales View in CoL s. str. by Waichert et al. (2022).

Key to species of the subgenus Ceropales (Ceropales) from India

1. Tarsal claws simple, not bifid apically; body ferruginous or black with yellow-ivory patches......................... 2

– Both claws of fore (♀) and middle (♀, J) tarsi bifid, with a long appressed, obliquely truncate subapical tooth; body black; inner claw of fore leg (J) deeply split owing to the unusually large, not truncate inner tooth basally..................................................................................................... declivis ( Haupt, 1934) View in CoL

2. Wings subfuscous or fusco-hyaline....................................................................... 3

– Wings hyaline....................................................................................... 5

3. Fore wing infuscated in apical third; metasoma black, T1–T3 with white lateral bands............. ligea Bingham, 1903 View in CoL

– Fore wing subfuscous or fusco-hyaline entirely; metasomal segments ferruginous or yellow with ferruginous patches..... 4

4. Metasoma yellow, basal margin of the metasomal segments 1–3 basally ferruginous, fuscous or fusco-ferruginous; mesosoma yellow, mesothorax and base of metathorax black or fuscous; legs yellow, variegated with ferruginous spots.................................................................................................. ornata Smith, 1855 View in CoL

– Metasoma ferruginous with basal segment black; mesosoma: pronotum, tegula ferruginous; legs ferruginous, coxa and trochanter black................................................................... fuscipennis Smith, 1855 View in CoL

5. Pronotum strikingly convex in lateral view and rather steeply sloping to mesonotum................................ 6

– Pronotum not convex in lateral view, in level with mesonotum................................................. 7

6. Frons raised in lateral view onto antennal region; lateral side of propodeum with remarkable and finely cross-wrinkled metapleural suture; free margin of the last metasomal segment significantly curved; propodeum conspicuously flat over its entire length; posterior part of propodeum dark reddish laterally.............................. judicatrix Nurse, 1902 View in CoL

– Frons normal, moderately raised in lateral view, shortly flat below fore ocellus and raised between antennal sockets; metapleural sulcus not developed, rarely hardly discernible; free margin of the last metasomal segment nearly straight, slightly curved above in lateral view; posterior margin of propodeum raised laterally; lateral corners of propodeum white........................................................................................................ indica Móczár, 1989 View in CoL

7. Head with dense yellowish-brown setae, mainly concentrated on upper frons and vertex; clypeus completely pale yellow without any marking; ivory patch on face non confluent; antenna pale yellow ventrally, brownish black dorsally; medial emargination of compound eyes not deep......................................... keralaensis Anju, Binoy & Thejass , sp. nov.

– Head without prominent yellowish-brown setae; clypeus pale yellow with a black spot medially; ivory patch on face confluent till upper eye margin; antenna entirely brownish black; compound eyes medially deeply emarginated............................................................................. anaghae Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass , sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Loc

Ceropales Latreille, 1796

Anju, K., Thejass, P., Binoy, C. & Kumar, P. Girish 2023
2023
Loc

Hypsiceraeus

Morice, F. D. & Durant, J. H. 1915: 403
1915
Loc

Ceratopales

Schulz, W. A. 1906: 174
1906
Loc

Agenioxenus

Ashmead, W. H. 1902: 137
1902
Loc

Ceropales

Latreille, P. A. 1796: 123
1796
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