Gonaporus simulator Wahis & I. Zonstein

Zonstein, Irina & Wahis, Raymond, 2015, Revision of the Palaearctic genus Gonaporus Ashmead, 1902 of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Zootaxa 4018 (4), pp. 451-505 : 489-495

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5665489
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/900D9F6D-FFAF-404E-72C3-F890C8EDFCC7
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Gonaporus simulator Wahis & I. Zonstein
status	sp. nov.

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Gonaporus simulator Wahis & I. Zonstein , sp. nov.

( Figs 27 View FIGURES 17 – 28. 17 , 34 View FIGURES 29 – 37 , 97 View FIGURES 96 – 99 , 108 View FIGURES 105 – 109 , 119 View FIGURES 110 – 120 , 129 View FIGURES 121 – 130 , 140 View FIGURES 131 – 141 , 151 View FIGURES 142 – 152 , 162 View FIGURES 160 – 166 , 173 View FIGURES 167 – 174 , 184 View FIGURES 182 – 188 , 194 View FIGURES 189 – 195 )

Diagnosis. The female of G. simulator sp. nov. has shorter F1 than most species of Gonaporus (except of G. maureanus ) (Table 1). Similar to G. israelicus and G. setitarsus sp. nov., it has pubescence on the metapostnotum, but in G. simulator sp. nov. the pubescence is very sparse ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 29 – 37 ).

Description. Female. Body length 6.0– 8.2 mm. Structure: see Table 1. Coloration: Head mostly black sometimes with narrow yellow stripe on inner orbit; clypeus mostly orange, narrowly black basally; mandible mostly orangeyellow, dark brown-orange on apical 0.33–0.4; scape brown dorsally and orange ventrally to entirely orange; pedicel orange-brown; flagellum mostly brown dorsally; basal flagellomeres orange-brown ventrally. Mesosoma mostly black; pronotum mostly black and orange laterally to mostly orange; propodeum usually mostly black and orange posteriorly or entirely black; tegula light orange. Legs: Coxae, trochanters, femora, tibiae orange; tarsi dark brown; spur of fore leg orange basally, dark brown apically, other spurs dark brown; spines of tarsal comb orange or slightly brown apically; spines on tibiae and femora orange-brown; tarsi with brown spines. Metasoma orange. Pygidium orange-brown and shiny. Metapostnotum with sparse pubescence ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 29 – 37 ). Setae: Frons and vertex with short brown setae; clypeus with long reddish setae; occiput and propleuron with long fine whitish setae. Protarsomere 1 with 3 long spines posteriorly and 2 short spines anteroventrally ( Figs 27 View FIGURES 17 – 28. 17 , 140 View FIGURES 131 – 141 ).

Male. Body length 4.5–5.6 mm. Structure see Table 2. Subgenital plate and genitalia not studied. Coloration: Head mostly black; clypeus mostly orange, narrowly black basally; mandible yellowish orange basally, yellow medially, orange-brown on apical 0.25; scape and pedicel dark brown dorsally and orange ventrally; flagellum dark brown dorsally and orange-brown ventrally. Mesosoma: Pronotum mostly black, orange posteriorly and laterally; scutum and scutellum black; episternum mostly black, orange posteriorly; propodeum black dorsally, orange everywhere else; tegula light yellow. Legs, except of blackish-brown tarsi, mostly orange-brown; spurs of protibia yellowish-orange apically; spurs of meso- and metatibia dark orange-brown; leg spines dark reddish-black. Metasoma: Segments 1–2(3) orange; segments 4–7 almost entirely black. Metapostnotum with sparse pubescence. Setae: Occiput and propleuron with short fine whitish setae.

Etymology. Latin adjective, because, at first sight, this species is very similar (mimics) in size and coloration to israelicus .

Material examined. Holotype, ♀: S. ARABIA: Hofuf, 145m, 21–6 [sic]. vi.1980, K.M. Guichard ( BMNH). Paratypes: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Liwa, 8.v.1987, I.L. Hamer, 1♀ ( BMNH); Israel: Arava Valley, Kibbutz Ketura, Malaise trap nr. water treatment shed, 30°58'30''N 35°03'52''E, - 114 m, 15–31.iv.1995, M.E. Irwin, 1♀ ( CRW); EGYPT: Assiut, 9.v.1981, KMS 1♀ ( BMNH). Other material. MAURITANIA: Nouakchott, iv.1991, F. Borgato, 1♀ ( CRW); Nouakchott, iv.1991, F. Borgato, 2♂ ( CRW).

Distribution. Mauritania, Egypt, Israel; Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates ( Fig. 217 View FIGURE 217 ).

Habitat. Unknown.

Biology. Unknown.