Ageniella Banks, 1912

Waichert, Cecilia, Colombo, Wesley Dondoni, Von Dohlen, Carol D. & Pitts, James P., 2018, Taxonomic contributions to Ageniella Banks, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Brazil, Zootaxa 4403 (1), pp. 133-153 : 134-136

Genus Ageniella Banks, 1912

TypE SpEcIES: Pompilus acceptus CrESSON, 1867, AMEr. ENt. SOc. TraNS., vOL. 1, p. 130. [HOLOtypE: ♀, U.S.A., GEOrgIa (ANSP), ExaMINEd], by OrIgINaL dESIgNatION.

Diagnosis. ThIS gENUS caN bE REcOgNIZEd bY haVINg SpEcIES WITh ThE bOdY SIZE RaNgINg fROm SmaLL TO LaRgE; ThE cLYpEUS IS USUaLLY ROUNdEd OR TRUNcaTE; aNd ThE pROpOdEUm IS ROUNdEd IN pROfILE VIEW. AddITIONaLLY, fEmaLES haVE ThE apIcaL TERgITE cOVEREd WITh SETaE aNd mENTUm WITh OR WIThOUT ThIN SETaE; aNd maLES haVE ThE gENITaLIa WITh paRamERES aLmOST aS LONg aS ThE EdEagUS, cOVEREd WITh LONg EREcT SETaE.

A TOTaL Of SIx SUbgENERa aNd 40 SpEcIES Of Ageniella OccUR IN BRaZIL, Of ThESE, 25 SpEcIES aRE ENdEmIc ( TabLE 1).

MaLE SpEcImENS aRE VERY SImILaR TO Each OThER, dOUbTfULLY aSSIgNEd TO fEmaLE SpEcImENS aNd TaxONOmIcaLLY dIffIcULT TO IdENTIfY. A kEY fOR maLES IS NOT RELIabLE aNd WILL NOT bE pRESENTEd hEREIN.