Cerceris odontophora Schletterer, 1887

Malash, Alyaa A., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2024, A revision of bupresticida species group of Cerceris Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Philanthinae) of the Western Palearctic region, with the description of Cerceris ammonia, a new species from Egypt, Zootaxa 5448 (1), pp. 1-28 : 17-19

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Cerceris odontophora Schletterer, 1887 View in CoL

Figs 14 View FIGURE 14 (A–D), 15(A, B)

Cerceris odontophora Schletterer, 1887: 398 View in CoL , ♀, ♂; Syntypes: Greece .

Brief description. Female: Body length: 7.0-8.0 mm. dark ferruginous, with yellowish white ( Fig. 14A, C View FIGURE 14 ); antenna dark ferruginous ( Fig. 14C View FIGURE 14 ); mandible dark ferruginous, pale at base ( Fig. 14C View FIGURE 14 ); tegula yellowish white with black spot ( Fig. 14A View FIGURE 14 ); legs with femora (except black streaks dorsally), tibiae and tarsi yellowish white ( Fig. 14A View FIGURE 14 ); T 3 with a medially interrupted posterior band, extended to lateral side of tergum ( Fig. 14A View FIGURE 14 ), almost all of T 5 yellowish white (except at base) ( Fig. 14A View FIGURE 14 ); clypeus with middle lobe convex, with two preapical median teeth or process, sometimes hardly seen from punctures, free margin with two small lateral teeth surrounding minute ones in the middle ( Fig. 14C View FIGURE 14 ); S 5 with apical denticles, with two medial lobes with incision between ( Fig. 15B View FIGURE 15 ); downwardly curved posterior margin of S 6 slightly indented or rounded medially; propodeal enclosure smooth and shiny ( Fig. 14D View FIGURE 14 ), rarely with arched longitudinal of transverse wrinkling at base; pygidial plate oval, narrowly rounded at apex, finely rugose, with some scattered fine whitish setae at base.

Male ( Fig. 14B View FIGURE 14 ): Smaller in size; with more yellowish white than in female, T 5 reddish; S 6 with inconspicuous teeth.

Colour variation: In some of the Turkish specimens, the black of some body parts (scutellum, propodeum and T 1-3) is replaced by red in females; in males, posterior margin of T 1 and T 2 edged with rusty red ( Schmidt 2000).

Material examined: Bulgaria: A photograph from the CAS: 1♀, Varna, 4.viii.1956, W.J. Pulawski collector ; Greece: A photograph from the CAS: 1♂, Island of Crete: Iraklion, 3.vi.1976, Cambridge Morea Expedition .

Distribution: PA: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Greece, Iran, Israel / Palestine, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey.

Comments. The female of Cerceris odontophora is similar to C. bupresticida except for the following: the downwardly curved posterior edge of S 5 without lateral teeth, slightly indented or rounded medially (S 5 trilobed, with lateral teeth, and more or less pointed denticles medially in C. bupresticida ); propodeal enclosure smooth and shiny ( Fig. 14D View FIGURE 14 ), rarely with arched longitudinal or transverse wrinkles at base (propodeal enclosure conspicuously longitudinally ridged at basal half, smooth posteriorly in C.bupresticida ( Fig.5B View FIGURE 5 )or sometimes entirely longitudinally ridged ( Fig. 5B View FIGURE 5 )); pale parts of body yellowish white and more reduced ( Fig. 14A, B View FIGURE 14 ) (pale parts clearly yellow in C. bupresticida and extensive ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A-D)).