Ammophila vetuberosa LI & YANG

Dollfuss, H., 2013, Revision of the Wasps Genus Ammophila KIRBY 1798 (Hymenoptera Apoidea Sphecidae) of the Palearctic Region and India, Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (1), pp. 383-564 : 501

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5341134

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scientific name

Ammophila vetuberosa LI & YANG
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Ammophila vetuberosa LI & YANG ( Figs 753-763 View Figs 753-769 )

Ammophila vetuberosa LI & YANG in LI, LI & YANG 1994: 290, 3. Holotype: 3, China: Shandong Province: Dongying City: Xianthe Town (Shandong Agricultural University ), not

examined. M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Mongolia: Ordos (13 NHMW).

R e c o g n i t i o n The male of A. vetuberosa has the submarginal cell III petiolate, the gastral apex without metallic shine, the propodeal enclosure glabrous, the supraantennal lamellate projection absent and the mesothoracic venter not prominent anteriorly. Additionally, the episternal sulcus extends to the anteroventral margin of the pleuron, the arolia are well developed and the claws have no basal tooth. The posterior surface of the forecoxa has a tooth (angulation). The male of A. vetuberosa differs from all species with a petiolate submarginal cell III in having a tooth on the posterior surface of the forecoxa.

D e s c r i p t i o n 3: 12-17 mm. Black except petiole (basally more or less black), tergum I and gastral segments II and III red. Clypeus, frons, pronotal lobe, patch on mesopleuron and propodeum posterolaterally covered with dense appressed silvery setae, remaning areas of head and thorax distinctly pruinose. Clypeus elongate ( Fig. 753 View Figs 753-769 ), disk flat. Pronotal collar dorsally impunctate, in lateral view see Fig. 759 View Figs 753-769 , scutum dull, sparsely punctate and transversely microstriate; scutellum longitudinally striate and punctate. Mesopleuron dull and punctate, metapleuron and propodeum laterally punctatorugose. Propodeal enclosure obliquely striate. Genitalia: Figs 760-763 View Figs 753-769 . Flagellomere I: II=2.4.

♀ 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: China, Mongolia.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Poales

Family

Poaceae

Genus

Ammophila

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