Podalonia moczari (TSUNEKI)

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 : 1262

Podalonia moczari (TSUNEKI) Figs 10, 11, 12

Ammophila moczari TSUNEKI 1971: 161 ,. Holotype:, Mongolia: South Gobi Aymag : 35 km SW Somon Sevrey (TMB).

R e c o g n i t i o n Thefemaleof Podalonia moczari has a glabrous propodeal enclosure, a black gaster, and claws without a tooth near the base. In addition, the scutum is shiny, punctate (punctures 2-4 diameter apart) and without microsculpture. The forecoxa has no spine, and the tarsomeres of foreleg are distinctly asymmetrical (fig. 10). The marginal cell of forewing is short and rounded (fig. 11), and the clypeus is as in fig 12. Additionally, the mesopleuron is finely and densely striate (dorsally obliquely and ventrally transversely), not rugose and the scutellum is smooth, shiny and sparsely punctate.

Podalonia moczari is similar to P. ebenina but differs in having the forecoxa without a spine, the mesopleuron not rugose, the petiole 0.5 as long as hindtarsomere I, and the marginal cell of forewing is short and rounded (fig. 11).

Male unknown.

G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Mongolia.

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d 1 holotype (TMB).

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.