Podalonia luffii (E. SAUNDERS)

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 : 1260

Podalonia luffii (E. SAUNDERS) Figs 19 , 39, 64, 89, 101

Psammophila arenaria LÜDERWALDT 1897: 125 ,,, junior secondary homonym of Podalonia arenaria ( FABRICIUS 1787) . Syntypes: Germany: Gollnow, now Poland: Goleniów (depository?).

Ammophila luffii E. SAUNDERS 1903: 248 ,,. Syntypes: Great Britain: Channel Islands: Jersey: no specific locality (OXUM).

R e c o g n i t i o n Podalonia luffii has a propodeal enclosure with erect setae, and a basally red gaster.

The female scutum in most specimens is densely punctate, the arolia are well defined, the clypeus and frons are not covered with appressed silver setae. In addition, foretarsomeres are distinctly asymmetrical and have long spines (fig. 19), the mandible is largely or all dark reddish (in some specimens the mandible is nearly black). The free margin of clypeus is evenly arcuate, erect setae on head and thorax are predominately black, but on propodeum they are whitish, and the petiole is as long as hindtarsomere I or a little shorter. Podalonia mauritanica differs from P. luffii in having the free margin of the clypeus with a median lobe and blunt teeth.

In some larger males of P. luffii the clypeus is produced like in P. mauritanica , but such specimens differ distinctly by the shape of penis valve (fig. 64), ventrally (fig. 39, the tiny lateral teeth are hard to see). See also the penis valve dorsally (fig 89), and apically (fig. 101). Additionally, the male of P. luffii has black mandibles (in some specimens brown) and the wings are dark brown, whereas in P. mauritanica the mandible in most specimens is yellowish-brown and the wing veins are light-brown. Podalonia tydei differs from P. luffii in having appressed silver setae on the mesopleuron.

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

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d 53, 46.

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.