Dicranopilus aff. areatus (Taschenberg, 1869)

Waichert, Cecilia, Fernandez, Fernando, Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Juanita Rodriguez, & Pitts, James P., 2017, More new records of spider wasps from Colombia (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), ZooKeys 658, pp. 89-95 : 90

Dicranopilus aff. areatus (Taschenberg, 1869)

Specimen data.

Bolívar. 2♂, Santuario de Fauna y Flora Los Colorados, Alto el Mirador, 6-24 Oct 2001, E. Deulufeut (IAvH-E). Magdalena. 8♂, 1♀, PNN Ta y rona, Neguanje, 20 Apr-4 May 2001; 9♂, 2♀, 4 -23 May 2001; 3♂, 14-28 Jul 2001; 11♂, 28 Jul-18 Aug 2001; 12♂, 17-27 Sept 2001, R. Henriquez (EMUS, IAvH-E).

Comments.

This is the first record of the genus for Colombia. Dicranoplius is restricted to the Neotropics, to both temperate and tropical South America. It was previously known from Trinidad south to Argentina ( Evans 1969). The studied specimens key out as Dicranoplius areatus in Evans’s (1969) key, but they belong to an undescribed species, which will be described elsewhere.