Oxybelus sp. 1

Dollfuss, H., 2008, The Crabronid Wasps of the Genera Oxybelus LATREILLE 1796 and Brimocelus ARNOLD 1927 of " Biologiezentrum Linz " Collection in Linz, Austria (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1), pp. 463-505 : 500

Oxybelus sp. 1 (2)

: 5-6 mm. Mandibles, legs, mucro and pygidial area reddish. Vertex, mesonotum, mesopleuron and tergites I and II coarse and densely punctate. Mucro foliaceous and narrowed to the apex and pointed! Metanotal squama curves downwards and acute. Pygidial area as long as basally broad and apex with two small teeth. Maybe this species is the hitherto unknown female of Oxybelus congophilus BENOIT 1951: 132 .

K e n y a:2, Voi (Tsavo) env., 22.XI.-2.XII.1996, leg. Mi. Halada.