Ageniella (Ameragenia) similaris (Banks, 1946)

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 : 143

Ageniella (Ameragenia) similaris (Banks, 1946)

Ameragenia similaris BaNkS, 1946, MUS. COMp. ZOOL. BULL., vOL. 96, p. 433 [HOLOtypE: ♀, BRAZIL, SãO PaULO ( MCZ #26764 ), ExaMINEd].

Distribution. BRaZIL.

Host. UNkNOWN.

Remarks. ThE bOdY-ShapE IS SOmEWhaT SImILaR TO ThE NEaRcTIc SpEcIES A. arcuata (BaNkS). Ageniella similaris , hOWEVER, LackS ThE ROW Of ScaLE-LIkE SpINES SEEN IN A. arcuata aNd pRESENT IN aLL NEaRcTIc fEmaLES Of Ageniella (Priophanes) ( A. similaris haS TWO ROWS Of SpINES IN ThE hINd TIbIa, bUT ThEY aRE NOT ScaLE-LIkE). MOREOVER, ThE bOdY IS cOVEREd bY SILVER SETaE. BaNkS (1946) mORphOLOgIcaLLY RELaTEd ThIS SpEcIES TO A. (Priophanes) rufigaster (BaNkS), bUT dIffERENTIaTE ThEm fROm A. similaris bY ThE LaTER haVINg LEgS mOSTLY bLack, ThE hEad IS mORE SETacEOUS, ThE STIgma IS SLENdER aNd paLER, aNd ThE INNER SpUR IS ShORTER IN A. similaris ThaN IN A. rufigaster . BESIdES, BaNkS (1946) STaTEd ThaT ThE cELL 3RS IS LONgER IN A. similaris . ThE ORIgINaL dEScRIpTION IS ThE ONLY REcORd Of ThIS SpEcIES.