Ampulex assimilis Kohl, 1893

Gadallah, Neveen S., 2017, Revision of the digger wasps of the Ampulicidae and Heterogynaidae (Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia, with the description of a new species of the enigmatic genus Heterogyna Nagy, Journal of Natural History 51 (33 - 34), pp. 2057-2085 : 2062

Ampulex assimilis Kohl, 1893

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Ampulex assimilis Kohl, 1893: 464 , ♀. Lectotype: ♀, Iraq, Baghdad (NHMW), designated by de Beaumont, 1970: 395.

Diagnosis

Male about 18 mm and female about 13 mm in length; integument metallic blue (tibiae and tarsi with black tint) ( Figure 3 (a,b)); antennal tubercles separated from each other ( Figure 3 (c,d)); pronotum with large median tubercle adjacent to posterior margin; fore wing with two SMCs (SMC1 and SMC2 fused) ( Figure 3 (e)); apex of marginal cell of fore wing not reaching wing margin ( Figure 3 (e)).

Material examined: Saudi Arabia

1 ♂, Al-Baha, Buljurashi, SW, 24 May 2012 (leg. A. Nuru) [ KSMA]; 1 ♂, Riyadh, Bader, SW, 6 December 2006 (leg.?) [ KSMA]; 1♀, Riyadh, Diriyah, KSU, SW, 13 May 2015 (leg. M. Al Sufayan) [ KSMA]; 1 ♂ and 1♀, Riyadh, SW (other data lost) [ EFC] .

Distribution

Iraq ( Morice 1921; Beaumont 1961, 1970; Al-Ali 1977), Oman ( Guichard 1980), UAE ( Ohl 2011), Saudi Arabia (new record).

Figures

Figure 3. (a–e) Ampulex assimilis Kohl (a,c,e: male; b,d: female). (a,b) Habitus, dorsal view; (c,d) head, frontal view; (e) fore- and hind wings.