Podalonia hirsuta (SCOPOLI)

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 : 1257-1258

Podalonia hirsuta (SCOPOLI) Figs 16, 18 , 31, 55, 80, 92

Sphex hirsutus SCOPOLI 1763: 292 , sex not indicated. Holotype or syntypes: Carniolia , now Slovenia (destroyed).

Sphex arenarius FABRICIUS 1787: 273 , sex not idicated, junior primary homonym of Sphex arenarius LINNAEUS 1758 . Lectotype: sex not indicated, Germany: Kiel (ZMK), designated by van der Vecht 1961: 41.

Sphex arenosus GMELIN 1790: 2742, sex not idicated. Holotype or syntypes: Kilonia, now Germany: Schleswig-Holstein: Kiel (destroyed).

Ammophila argentea W. KIRBY 1798: 208 []. Holotype or syntypes:, Great Britain: no specific locality (BMNH?).

Sphex viatica var. macrogaster DAHLBOM 1831: 44 ,. Syntypes: Sweden: Gotland: no specific locality; Östergötland: Vadstena Lot and Medhamra Äng: Scania: Ystad (Lund).

Ammophila mervensis Radoszkowski 1887: 89 ,,. Syntypes: Turkmenistan: Samsaul ; Caucasus; France: Corse (Kraków).

Ammophila ebenina LEPELETIER de SAINT FARGEAU 1845: 366 , (authorship attributed to Spinola), junior primary homonym of Ammophila ebenina SPINOLA 1839 . Lectotype: Egypt: no specific locality (MSNT).

Ammophila bolanica NURSE 1903: 8 ,. Syntypes:, Pakistan: Quetta (BMNH).

R e c o g n i t i o n Podalonia hirsuta is a wildely distributed, common species whose propodeal enclosure is covered with erect setae.

The female can be recognized by rudimentary arolia, a scutum that is densely punctate at least anteriorly, and the head and thorax with black erect setae, in some specimens with white ones. In addition, OOD = 1.5 POD, the foretarsomeres are moderately asymmetrical (fig 18), and the free margin of the clypeus (fig 16). Female gaster color varies: most specimens have a basally red gaster, but in some specimens terga I and II are partly reddish-brown, and many specimens described as Ammophila mervensis have a black gaster. The black female of P. hirsuta differs from P. marismortui in having rudimental arolia, and from P. schmiedeknechti in having moderately asymmetrical tarsomeres of foreleg and a vertex convex.

The male of P. hirsuta is characterized by a large penis valve, which in ventral view has transverse spines and a more or less produced median thorn (fig. 31). Penis valve in lateral view: fig. 55, in dorsal view: fig 80 and in apical view: fig. 92. Additionally, the mesopleuron has no appressed silver setae, and the erect setae on the head and thorax are black in most specimens, but whitish-grey in some.

G e o g r a p h i c d i s t r i b u t i o n PalearcticRegion.

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d 647, 624.

Figures

Figs 9-22: (9) P. kozlovii foretarsomeres of female; (10) P. moczari foretarsomeres of female; (11) P. moczari marginal cell of forewing; (12) P. moczari clypeus of female; (Tsuneki 1971). (13) P. atrocyanea flagellomeres I, II of female; (14) P. chalybea flagellomeres I, II of female; (15) P. schmiedeknechti head of female; (16) P. hirsuta head of female; (17) P. schmiedeknechti foretarsomeres of female; (18) P. hirsuta foretarsomeres of female; (19) P. luffii foretarsomeres of female; (20) P. mauritanica foretarsomeres of female; (21) P. pungens marginal cell of forewing; (22) P. harveyi head of female in dorsal view.