Ammatomus aljahdhamii, Schmid-Egger, 2019

Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2019, Review oI the genus Ammatomus A. COSTA, 1859 (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) Irom the Palearctic region with description oI Iour new species, Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (1), pp. 437-457 : 441

Ammatomus aljahdhamii SCHMID- EGGER nov.sp. ( figs 1-3 )

Holotype: female Oman, 30.xi.2018 Dhofar, Salalah, Ayn Athum 17.114N 54.364E, leg. Al- Jahdhami (coll ZSM).

R e c o g n i t i o n: A. aljahdhamii is unique amoung Palearctic Ammatomus species by the extended black body colour with only a few whitish marks, by a relatively large T 1 (the species is intermediate between A. rogenhoferi and remaining species) and with the lack of punctation on propodeum and abdomen.

D e s c r i p t i o n o f h o l o t y p e, f e m a l e: Body length 10.2 mm. Colour: black, whitish yellow are: clypeus apart from lower third, large spot on inner eye margin below scape, very small spot below scape, scape ( AS I) below, thin band on hindmargin of pronotum, pronotal lobe, lateral spots on T 1 apically, narrow bands on T 2 and T 3, medially interrupted, medial band on tergites V, indistinct medial spot on T 5. Forefemora with large spot on inner side, and small spot on outer side, midfemora with small spot on outer side. Mid- and hindtibiae black with brownish innerside, hindtibia black with brownish apex. Tarsi dark yellowish-green, hindtarsomere black in apical half. AS VIII- XII orange red below, last AS nearly completely red. Wing venation black. Morphology: Clypeus and frons with some erect white setae, remaining body without erect setae, with fine and sparse pubescence. T 1 1x. Apical margin of T 4 and T 5 with some white bristles. Frons around midocellus with some irregular punctation, mesoscutum and scutellum with sparse punctation, mesopleuron with dense punctation, punctures 0,3 - 1 diameters apart, punctures larger than those of mesoscutum.

M a l e: unknown.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Southern Oman, Dhofar region.

E t y m o l o g y: The species is dedicated to the Omani entomologist Ali Al-Jahdhami, who collected the holotype.

Figures

Fig. 1-7: (1) Ammatomus aljahdhamii, female holotype; (2) Ammatomus aljahdhamii, female holotype, face; (3) Ammatomus aljahdhamii, female holotype, T1; (4) Ammatomus asiaticus, female from Tunisia; (5) Ammatomus asiaticus, female from Tunisia, T1 laterally; (6) Ammatomus asiaticus, female from Tunisia, hindclaw; (7) Ammatomus asiaticus, male from Israel.