Podalonia kansuana LI & YANG

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 : 1258-1259

Podalonia kansuana LI & YANG Figs 125 - 129

Podalonia kansuana LI & YANG 1992: 87 ,. Holotype:, China: Kansu: Wenxian County (Beijing Agricultural University ).

D e s c r i t i o n o f f e m a l e translated from Chinese by Q. Li: " Body length 18- 19 mm. Black, no yellowish and reddish spot on whole body except for mandible; gaster without steel blue and green luster; wing slightly dark brown, veins dark brown. Long setae on head, prothorax and mesothorax black, on metathorax an propodeum white; head and thorax without appressed silver setae, propodeal enclosure without setae, petiole beneath with sparse short setae. Frons, vertex, pronotal collar and scutum subshiny.

Frons densely punctate, vertex and clypeus sparsely punctate. Vertex swollen, higher than eye; median portion of clypeus swollen (fig. 127). POD: OOD: IOPD: IODC: length of flagellomere I (fig. 125): flagellomere II: flagellomere III = 3: 5.2: 16: 16.6: 7.5: 4.8: 4.7.

Anterior and dorsal portion of pronotal collar (fig. 126) sparsely punctate, without carina, lateral portion with transverse carinae. Scutum with punctures sparser than that on frons and denser than that on vertex, without carina except for anterolateral portion that with less oblique rugae. Scutellum slightly swollen, with fine, dense and weak longitudinal rugae and sparse punctures. Metanotum slightly swollen, with incomplete anterolateral rugae. Anterior half of propodeal enclosure with coarse, oblique carinae, posterior half with fine, dense transverse carinae, or without carinae. Mesopleuron with episternal sulcus, with irregular oblique rugae, sparsely punctate; mesosternum without ruga, densely punctate. Lower metapleural areas and propodeal side with oblique rugae coarser than that on mesopleuron, with inconspicuous punctures. Forewing (fig. 127). Claw with a large basal tooth on inner margin. Inner apical portion of fore coxa with a semicircular prominence, without coarse thorn; dissymmetrie of fore tarsomeres I-IV (fig. 129) stronger than in P. hirsuta (SCOP.) ,weaker than in P. ebenina (SPINOLA) . Relative length of abdominal petiole: hind tarsomere I: II: III = 13.5: 19.5: 10.8: 8.

Male unknown.

Podalonia kansuana is related to P. ebenina , but differs in having a stronger tooth at the base of claw, weaker asymmetry of tarsi of forelegs, shorter petiole and different sculpture of propodeal enclosure and thorax pleuron."

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.

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

Figures

Figs 125-129: female of Podalonia kansuana (Li & Yang 1992:87): (125) clypeus frontal; (126) pronotum lateral; (127) marginal cell of forewing; (128) flagellomere I, II; (129) foretarsomeres.