Podalonia schmiedeknechti (KOHL)

Dollfuss, H., 2010, A Key to Wasps of the Genus Podalonia FERNALD 1927 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) of the Old World, Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2), pp. 1241-1291 : 1266

Podalonia schmiedeknechti (KOHL) Figs 15, 17 , 59, 84, 96

Ammophila schmiedeknechti KOHL 1898: 340 ,. Syntypes: Egypt: Wadi Hof near Cairo (TMB). Ammophila saharae GINER MARI 1945b: 364 ,. Holotype:, Morocco: Western Sahara: Ansert

(MNCN).

R e c o g n i t i o n Podalonia schmiedeknechti has a propodeal enclosure with erect setae and a black gaster.

The female is further characterized by the flat frons and the slightly concave vertex (fig. 15). In addition, the free margin of clypeus is arcuate or the median lobe has very small teeth. The foretarsus has remarkably long spines (fig. 17) and the flagellum is slender. The arolia are small but distinctly visible and the wings in fresh specimens are dark and in some specimens with violet reflections.

The male is characterized by a penis valve that lacks transverse spines, but in lateral view there is an acute thorn (fig. 59), in dorsal view (fig. 84) and in apical view (fig. 96), and the gonostyle is apically evenly pointed. It is further characterized by the clypeus and frons with appressed silver setae, and black erect setae on the head and thorax. The scutum is shiny and sparsely punctate (punctures 0-1 diameter apart) and obliquely ridged laterally. In addition, the mesopleuron is obliquely ridged and punctate, the petiole is slightly shorter than hindtarsomere I. Furthermore, POD: OOD = 14: 17 and flagellomere I: II = 27: 18.

G e o g r a p h i c d i s t r i b u t i o n: Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco.

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d 9, 1.

Figures

Figs 9-22: (9) P. kozlovii foretarsomeres of female; (10) P. moczari foretarsomeres of female; (11) P. moczari marginal cell of forewing; (12) P. moczari clypeus of female; (Tsuneki 1971). (13) P. atrocyanea flagellomeres I, II of female; (14) P. chalybea flagellomeres I, II of female; (15) P. schmiedeknechti head of female; (16) P. hirsuta head of female; (17) P. schmiedeknechti foretarsomeres of female; (18) P. hirsuta foretarsomeres of female; (19) P. luffii foretarsomeres of female; (20) P. mauritanica foretarsomeres of female; (21) P. pungens marginal cell of forewing; (22) P. harveyi head of female in dorsal view.