Podalonia harveyi (de BEAUMONT)

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 : 1257

Podalonia harveyi (de BEAUMONT) Fig. 22

Ammophila harveyi de BEAUMONT 1967: 262 ,. Holotype:, Turkey: Ankara: above Hasanoglan (BMNH).

R e c o g n i t i o n The female of Podalonia harveyi differs from all Palearctic species with a setose propodeal enclosure in having a flattened clypeus, a conspicuous median depression on the frons (fig. 22), and the interocellar distance is short (POD: OOD = 1: 2). In addition, the mesopleuron is densely rugose, the clypeus and frons are without appressed silver setae and the erect setae on head and thorax are black. The length of the petiole is 0.75 hindtarsomere I, the foretarsomeres are slightly asymmetrical and the arolia small.

Male unknown.

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

S p e c i m e n s e x a m i n e d 1 paratype (MZL).

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.