Hoplisoides Gribodo, 1884

Mokrousov, Mikhail V., Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. & Maharramov, Mahir M., 2020, Digger wasps of the genus Hoplisoides Gribodo (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae, Bembicinae) from the Palaearctic region, with description of two new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 79, pp. 213-233 : 213

Genus Hoplisoides Gribodo, 1884

Hoplisoides Gribodo, 1884: 276. Type species: Hoplisoides intricans Gribodo, 1884, by monotypy.

Icuma Cameron, 1905: 21. Type species: Icuma sericea Cameron, 1905, by monotypy [= Gorytes vespoides F. Smith, 1873]. Synonymized with Hoplisoides by R. Bohart in Bohart and Menke, 1976: 53.

Diagnosis.

Genus Hoplisoides , according to Bohart and Menke (1976) with clarifications, characterized by: medium to small wasps; inner eye margins often nearly parallel and widely separated, sometimes converging below, especially in males; median frontal groove often indistinct; labrum inconspicuous; at least male flagellomeres VIII and IX specially modified, flattened or concave beneath; first flagellomere less than three-fourths as long as scape; mandible with an inner subtooth; pronotal collar a little thinner medially, rather closely appressed to scutum; female foretarsal rake well developed, basitarsus with three bladelike setae before apex; female arolia usually equal; posterolateral oblique scutal carina present; mesopleuron with a complete sternaulus; acetabular carina present, distinct and complete; subomaulus lacking or reduced to elevation in the form of an inflection; scutum usually coarsely punctate; forewing usually pictured, media diverging before cu-a, stigma moderate, veinlet of submarginal cell II between recurrents short; jugal lobe larger than tegula, hindwing media diverging at or very near cu-a; midtibia with two apical spurs; metapostnotum usually with longitudinal carinulae, lateral boundaries sometimes indistinct; spiracular groove present but not well impressed; metasomal segment I sometimes narrowed but tergum evenly curved, not strongly humped towards apex, male with normally visible six or seven terga and six sterna, sterna V and VI with basal and concealed hairbrushes (often hidden beneath the edge of the previous sternum), sternum VIII sword shaped and pointed apically; female pygidial plate distinct, often long and ovoid-triangular, sides sometimes bent.