Ferreola denticulata, Taschenberg, 1869

Schmid-Egger, Rnold Christian, 2018, New species of Ferreola L, 1845 and Eoferreola A, 1935 with key to Ferreola species from the Palaearctic region (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 389-412 : 399

Ferreola denticulata TASCHENBERG, 1869, figs 20-25

Ferreola denticulata TASCHENBERG, 1869: 72. Holotype female Sudan, " Chartum " [= Khartoum] (Halle).

Sphex dimidiata (FABRICIUS, 1793, nec. VAN DER LINDEN, 1827), misidentification, is Schistonyx perezi (TOURNIER, 1895), (see WAHIS & GROS 2000).

Records: Greece: 1 male 1 female 24.vii.1965 Alt Korinth; 1 male 31.v.2006 Samos, Phytagorio ( OLL): 1 male 15.ix.2014 Lesbos, Scala Polichnitos ( CSE); 1 female vi.1971 Insel Rhodos; 1 female 12.viii.2003 Rhodos, Tsambika beach ( CSE); 2 females 21.viii.1925 Kithira Island (Berlin); male 10.v.2014 Peloponnes, Kalogria, photo by H.Wiesbauer ( fig. 21 ). Israel: 1 male 16.vi.1965 En Gedi; 1 male 9.iv.1986 Qumran ( OLL) Sudan: male female 8.iii.1994 150 km SE Khartoum, Narga ( CSE).

Diagnosis: Ferreola denticulata can be recognized by its large body size (females 17-21 mm, one female only 15 mm, males 12-18 mm) in combination with a distinctive colour pattern: Head (apart the black area around ocelli), pronotum, scutellum and metanotum are orange-yellow, remaining body black. Wings are dark infuscate. Propodeal declivity is evenly spoke-like striate, striae originate on medial part of declivity base, and reach the edge between declivity and propodeal dorsum, leaving a small zone behind edge smooth. The similar F. pseudodenticulata nov.sp. is smaller (females 13.5-16 mm, males 9-13 mm), striae of propodeal declivity are shorter, more irregular and cover only the lower half of declivity.

Geograf ic distribution: Greece (mainland and islands), Israel, Sudan. Cyprus; Algeria /Hoggar (WAHIS & TERZO 1996, as Ferreola dimidiata ), Egypt ( PRIESNER, 1955: 189 as Platyderes dimidiatus Lind. ), Turkey (ÖZBEK et. al. 2000, as Ferreola dimidiata (VAN DER LINDEN, 1827)).

Figures

Figs 19-24: (19) Ferreola barrei, male from Iran, genital; (20) Ferreola denticulata, female from Sudan; (21) Ferreola denticulata, male from Greece, Peloponnes, by H. Wiesbauer; (22) Ferreola denticulata, male from Greece, head and mesosoma dorsally; (23) Ferreola denticulata, male from Greece, head laterally; (24) Ferreola denticulata, male from Greece, subgenital plate.

Figs 25-30: (25) Ferreola denticulata, male from Greece, genital; (26) Ferreola diffinis, male from Croatia; (27) Ferreola diffinis, female from Greece, head and mesosoma dorsally; (28) Ferreola diffinis, female from Greece, face; (29) Ferreola diffinis, male from Croatia, subgenital plate; (30) Ferreola diffinis, male from Croatia, genital.