Argogorytes, Ashmead, 1899

Kumar, P. Girish & Dubey, Anil Kumar, 2021, Discovery of the digger wasp genus Argogorytes Ashmead, 1899 (Hymenoptera Crabronidae: Bembicinae) in India and description of a new species, Zootaxa 4927 (2), pp. 282-288 : 283

Key to Argogorytes species of the Indian subcontinent

1. Head, mesosoma and metasoma metallic blue; scutellum in middle with narrow, transverse, raised smooth area..................................................................................... A. caerulescens ( Turner, 1914)

- Head, mesosoma and metasoma black with yellow or creamy white maculations; scutellum in middle without narrow, transverse, raised smooth area............................................................................... 2

2. Metanotum black ( Fig. 5 ); basal four metasomal terga black with a pair of small creamy white spot on Gt 1 subapically, and a pair of very narrow elongated creamy white band on Gt 2 subapically ( Fig. 10 ); wings clear hyaline except stigma....................................................................... A. pulawskii Girish Kumar & Dubey sp. nov.

- Metanotum with yellow band ( Fig. 17 ); basal four metasomal terga black with subapical yellow bands ( Fig. 20 ); wings brownish hyaline except stigma.................................................... A. tonkinensis ( Yasumatsu, 1943)

Figures

FIGURES 1–12. Argogorytes pulawskii sp. nov. Holotype ♀. 1. Habitus, lateral view. 2. Head, frontal view. 3. Lower half of head, frontal view. 4. Antenna. 5. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view. 6. Mesosternum. 7. Propodeum. 8. Forewing. 9. Hindwing. 10. Metasoma, dorsal view. 11. Metasoma, ventral view. 12. Last metasomal tergum.

FIGURES 13–22. Argogorytes tonkinensis (Yasumatsu) ♀. 13. Habitus, lateral view. 14. Head, frontal view. 15. Lower half of head, frontal view. 16. Antenna. 17. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view. 18. Forewing. 19. Hindwing. 20. Metasoma, dorsal view. 21. Basal two metasomal sterna. 22. Last metasomal tergum.