Telostholus Haupt, 1929

Loktionov, Valery M. & Lelej, Arkady S., 2019, The spider wasp genus Telostholus Haupt, 1929 (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) in Indonesia, with the description of three new species, Zootaxa 4648 (2), pp. 260-272 : 261

Genus Telostholus Haupt, 1929

Telostholus Haupt, 1929: 185 , ♀ ♂; Yasumatsu 1939: 280, ♀; Pate 1946: 109; Ishikawa 1967: 3, ♀; Tsuneki 1989: 151, ♀ ♂; 1990: 3; Li et al. 2015: 27, ♀ ♂; Shimizu & Terayama 2016: 218, 220, 509, 599, ♀ ♂.

Type species. Planiceps orientalis Cameron, 1891 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Female. Fore wing with two submarginal cells ( Fig. 8 ). Dorsal and posterior faces of vertex distinctly differentiated from each other; posterior margin of vertex concave ( Figs 4 , 28 , 35 ). Propodeum usually with small hump-like or tubercle-like projection postero-laterally ( Figs 6 , 29 , 37 ). Posterior declivity of propodeum usually well differentiated from dorsum ( Fig. 7 ). Tarsal claws bifid, with additional tooth obliquely truncated apically.

Male. Fore wing with two submarginal cells ( Fig. 16 ). Dorsal and posterior faces of vertex distinctly differentiated from each other; posterior margin of vertex concave ( Fig. 13 ). Flagellomeres serrate ventrally ( Fig. 13 ). Tarsal claws symmetrical and bifid, with additional tooth obliquely truncated apically. Head, body and legs black.

Species included. Twelve species (including new ones described below): Telostholus alobscuratus Li & Ma, 2015 , ♀ ( China: Shanxi); T. bidentatus Haupt, 1935 , ♀ ( Indonesia: Java); T. celebes Loktionov & Lelej , sp. nov., ♀ ♂ ( Indonesia: Sulawesi); T. esakii ( Yasumatsu, 1933) , ♀ ( China: Taiwan); T. kanoi Yasumatsu, 1939 , ♀ ( China: Taiwan); T. lucidulus (de Saussure, 1897) , ♀ ( Sri Lanka); T. nontuberatus Li & Ma, 2015 , ♀ ♂ ( China: Yunnan); T. orientalis ( Cameron, 1891) , ♀ ♂ ( India: West Bengalia; Myanmar; China: Yunnan, Taiwan); T. rinjani Loktionov & Lelej , sp. nov., ♀ ( Indonesia: Lombok); T. sulawesi Loktionov & Lelej , sp. nov., ♀ ( Indonesia: Sulawesi); T. verticitumidus Li & Li, 2015 , ♀ ( China: Yunnan); T. yasumatsui Ishikawa, 1967 , ♀ ♂ ( Japan: Honshu and Kyushu).

Distribution. India (West Bengal), Myanmar, Sri Lanka ( Bingham 1897), China (Yunnan, Shanxi, Taiwan) ( Li et al. 2015), Japan (Honshu and Kyushu) ( Shimizu & Terayama 2016) and Indonesia (Java, Sulawesi and Lombok) ( Haupt 1935, and current data).

Figures

FIGURES 1–9. Telostholus celebes sp. nov., ♀, holotype. 1. Habitus, lateral view. 2. Head, frontal view. 3. Head, lateral view. 4. Mesoscutum, pronotum and head, dorsal view. 5. Tubercle on propodeum, dorso-lateral view. 6. Mesoscutellum, metanotum, metapostnotum, propodeum and T1 part., dorsal view. 7. Head and mesosoma, lateral view. 8. Fore wing. 9. Hind wing. Scale bar: 1.0 mm for 1; 0.5 mm for 2–4 and 6–9; 0.2 mm for 5.

FIGURES 24–31. Telostholus rinjani sp. nov., ♀, holotype. 24. Habitus, lateral view. 25. Head, frontal view. 26. Pronotum and head, lateral view. 27. Head, mesosoma and T1 part., lateral view. 28. Pronotum, head and antenna, dorsal view. 29. Mesoscutellum, metanotum, metapostnotum and propodeum, dorsal view. 30. Fore wing. 31. Hind wing. Scale bar: 1.0 mm for 24; 0.5 mm for 30 and 31; 0.2 mm for 25–29.

FIGURES 32–40. Telostholus sulawesi sp. nov., ♀, holotype. 32. Habitus, dorso-lateral view. 33. Head, frontal view. 34. Pro- notum and head, lateral view. 35. Mesoscutum part., pronotum and head, dorsal view. 36. Head and mesosoma, lateral view. 37. Mesoscutellum, metanotum, metapostnotum, propodeum and T1 part., dorsal view. 38. Tubercle on propodeum, dorso-lateral view. 39. Fore wing. 40. Hind wing. Scale bar: 1.0 mm for 32; 0.5 mm for 33–37; 0.2 mm for 38.

FIGURES 10–23. Telostholus celebes sp. nov., ♂, paratype. 10. Habitus, lateral view. 11. Head, frontal view. 12. Head, lateral view. 13. Head, dorsal view. 14. Mesosoma, lateral view. 15. Mesoscutellum, metanotum, metapostnotum, propodeum and T1 part., dorsal view. 16. Fore wing. 17. Hind wing. 18. S6 part., ventral view. 19–21. Genitalia (19, lateral view; 20, ventral view; 21, dorsal view). 22, 23. Hypopygium (22, ventral view; 23, lateral view). Scale bar: 1.0 mm for 10; 0.5 mm for 16 and 17; 0.2 mm for 11–15; 0.1 mm for 18–23.