Podalonia nigrohirta (KOHL)

Dollfuss, H., 2010, A Key to Wasps of the Genus Podalonia FERNALD 1927 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) of the Old World, Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2), pp. 1241-1291 : 1262-1263

Podalonia nigrohirta (KOHL) Figs 34, 58, 83, 94

Ammophila nigrohirta KOHL 1888a: 154 ,. Lectotype:, Caucasus: no specific locality (NHMW), present designation.

R e c o g n i t i o n Podalonia nigrohirta has a propodeal enclosure with erect setae, and a basally red gaster.

In the female the scutum is densely punctate, the punctures are mostly elongate posteriorly, and in some specimens the scutum is longitudinally ridged. The arolia are distinct and in fresh specimens the wings are dark. In addition, the frontal line to anterior ocellus is relatively deep and the frontal depression and the vertex laterad of the ocelli is microsculptured, dull and sparsely punctate. The mesopleuron of female is ventrally transversely ridged. The female of P. nigrohirta resembles P. hirsuta , but differs in having distinct arolia. Podalonia nigrohirta differs from P. andrei only by the criteria given in the key.

The male of P. nigrohirta is similar to P. hirsuta but can be recognized by a slender penis valve in dorsal view (fig. 83), in ventral view (fig. 34), in lateral view (fig. 58) and in apical view (fig. 94). Additionally, the erect setae on the head and thorax are long and white, only on vertex are they black. The punctures on the head and thorax are posteriorly elongate, in some specimens the scutum is partly longitudinally ridged, and the petiole is as long as hindtarsomere I.

G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d 20, 11.