Podalonia hirticeps (CAMERON), 1889

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 : 1258

Podalonia hirticeps (CAMERON) Fig. 150

Ammophila hirticeps CAMERON 1889: 99 , sex not indicated. Holotype or syntypes: Pakistan: Gilgit (OXUM or Calcutta Museum).

R e d e s c r i p t i o n o f f e m a l e by BINGHAM 1897: 234. " Head and thorax sparsely punctured and densely pubescent; anterior margin of clypeus broadly rounded, almost sinuate in the middle; scutellum indistinctly longitudinally striate; the median segment obliquely striate, with central longitudinal furrow, which has a carina down the middle; petiole of gaster pubescent. Black, with long black setae and silvery pubescence on the clypeus and face in front; gaster with segments 2-4 and the base of the 5 th red; wings nearly hyaline, the apex infuscate."

D e s c r i p t i o n o f m a l e g e n i t a l i a by JHA & FAROOQI (1994: 11): " Gonostyli broad at base but sharply narrowing apically, apices acute and directed inwards, several stout and long hairs present along the dorsal margin of apical half, general pubescence short and thick. Aedeagus elongated, exceeding the length of gonostyli, uniformly broad with aedeagal head sharply bent carrying acute acuminate process which are directed outward almost at a right angle, apodemal protuberances at base well developed. Volsella broader, abruptly narrowing at base; cuspis thin and narrow; digital head comparatively large and triangular, when viewed ventrally its head sharply pointed, hairs comparatively large and erect, pubescence on lamina fine and short. " Genitalia: fig. 150.

G e o g r a p h i c d i s t r i b u t i o n: India, Pakistan.

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d None.