Ammoplanus (Ammoplanus) insularis, Giner

Boucïek, Zdenek, 2001, Palaearctic species of Ammoplanus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), Journal of Natural History 35, pp. 849-929 : 886-888

A (Ammoplanus) insularis Giner MarõÂ

Ammoplanu s (Ammoplanus) insularis Giner MarõÂ, 1943a: 30±32. Spain: Ibiza. Holotype male

(`tipo’), by original designation; deposited in MNCN Madrid (two paratypes examined). Ammoplanu s (Ceballosia) insularis Giner MarõÂ, 1943b: 291±292. Ammoplanu s insularis Giner MarõÂ; Gayubo, 1981: 195±199. Spain: Salmanca Province. Female

described by BoucÏek and Gayubo, 2001: 60.

Diagnostic features.

Male. Body length 1.9±2.8 mm. Pterostigma very pale yellowish; pale mask of face creamy white, including mandibles, middle part of labrum, clypeal sides and scapes. Frons in small specimens with very dense engraved reticulation. Clypeal median tooth smooth, short, rounded or obtuse-angular on top (®gures 99, 100), rarely somewhat upturning, but the two long setae always more distant from each other than from toruli. Labrum ¯at, trapezoidal, its short anterior side almost straight to moderately emarginate. Antenna with pedicel only very slightly longer or even slightly shorter than the following ®rst ¯agellar segment which is subequal to ¯agellar 2±10 (penultimate), each of them 1.6±1.7 times as long as broad, bare, but with usually six rows of rather small sensillar pits. Head dorsally in small specimens with very dense engraved reticulation, hence rather dull; in larger specimens puncturation prevailing over reticulation, which becomes almost obliterated, hence more convex parts rather shiny. Minimum width of frons between eyes in average males 0.97±1.05 times length of eye, but in big-headed males up to 1.26 times so (for variation see also Gayubo, 1981b: 196) and antennal torulus removed from lower end of eye by much greater distance than toruli from each other. Oral fossa rather small, only about two-thirds as deep as its distance from foramen magnum. Placoid sensilla on ¯agellar segments rather coarse, oblong to elongate, usually in ®ve rows on each segment, surface of segments almost smooth; pilosity sparse, minute, suberect.

Hind basitarsus somewhat similar to that of marathroicus , but the distinct expansion visible from above and from outside (®gures 24, 25), being directed more ventrad than in marathroicus , inner side from base to expansion usually with rather strong setae visible in dorsal view. On mesal side (®gure 98) moderately concave in broadened clavate part and there very densely beset with suberect hairs rather suddenly ending at end of expansion, here surface shortly bare (®gures 24, 25); in dorsal view basitarsus appearing strongly narrowed (incised) just beyond expansion on mesal side.

Fifth tergite with broad transverse area of dense and long, adpressed pilosity not found on adjacent tergites. Sternites up to the fourth almost bare and shiny but hind margin of 4 submedially with a transverse row of erect and slightly forwardcurving setae which vary from relatively loose to rather compact. Sternite 5 on apex of its slightly produced hind margin with erect, slightly arcuate comb of setae (®gure 101). Sternite 6 shorter than 5, medio-posteriorly slightly raised, almost bare. Aedeagus: gonostylus broad at apex, together with outer spine turned out and backwards, truncate end pointing outwards and bearing a row of setae (®gures 22, 23).

Female. Upper half of head and mesoscutum rather densely punctured. Lower face: clypeus in middle low, apex (®gures 27, 99) not rising as in marathroicus , for main characters see the key above. Inner eye orbits converging in lower half almost straight, not strongly curving towards toruli (®gure 99). Antennal pedicel very slightly shorter than following two segments combined, ®rst ¯agellar quadrate, middle to penultimate segments 1.3±1.4 times as long as broad. Formally described by Gayubo (1981b). In the material examined I have not seen specimens with heads of his ®gures 1 and 3.

Comment. The female of A. insularis is very similar to A. marathroicus (5 handlirschi ) and to A. kohlii ; all three species have a pale parastigma and the diOEerence between them is rather delicate. The males of the ®rst two can be easily separated by the secondary sexual characters on the hind basitarsus (®gure 98), the ®fth tergite without area of dense pilosity and by the modi®cation of apical sternites (®gure 101), the male of A. kohlii by the clypeus and labrum but its female is close to marathroicus .

Material examined. France (Vaucluse): Mont Ventoux, 2, 27 July 1978 (Gijswijt; ZMA); ( Aude ) : Ferrals-les-CorbieÁres, 1, 29 June 1985 (J. Bitsch); (PyrenneÂes Orient.): Banyuls-sur-Mer, 1, February 192? (J. R. Denis; MZL) , 2m, 27± 28 March 1961 (Nouvel; Bitsch Coll.). Spain (Navarra): Tudela, 1m, 15 July 1969 (VerhoeOE; RMNH); ( Burgos ) : Aranda de Duero, 3 land 1m, 1 July 1973 (BoucÏek; BMNH); (Aragan, Zaragoza ) : Pina de Ebro, 3m, 14 April 1990 and 7 June 1991 (J. Blasco; UZUS); ( CastelloÂn ) : Benicasim , 1 land 3m, 14 June 1973 (BoucÏek), Atzaneta, 2m, 17 October 1990 (BoucÏek; BMNH); (Baleares) : Ibiza, 1 lparatype, 8 March 1934 (Giner M.; MNCN); ( Cuenca ) : Contreras, R. Cabriol, 1, 22± 26 May 1987 (Gijswijt; ZMA); (Valencia) Albaida , 1, 13 October 1990 (BoucÏek); (Albacete) : La CanÄada, Manga , 1, 4 June 1989 (F. Luna); (Alicante) : Moraira , 8m, 17 June 1973 (BoucÏek; BMNH) ; Ferrandet nr Calpe , 12m, April 1982 and 1 land 25m, 22 April 1982 (v. Achterberg and Exp. Univ. Leiden; RMNH) ; Rebate forest , 1 l and 1m, 13 October 1990 (BoucÏek) ; Ablo , R. de Torre, 1m, 21 June 1989 (F. Luna) ; Jijona , 4, 13 October 1990 (F. Luna); (Murcia) : Sierra de EspunÄa nr Totana, 6m, 20 June 1973 (BoucÏek; BMNH); ( Alicante ) : Rebate , 1m, 13 October 1990 and Rio de la Torre, 1m, 28 June 1989) (both F. Luna); (Murcia) : Sierra de EspunÄa nr Totana , 1m, 20 June 1973 (BoucÏek); (Almeria) : Berja , 1 land 1m, 8± 10 May 1986, 1987 (Gijswijt; ZMA) ; Fondon , 1m, 9 May 1986 (Gijswijt; ZMA) ; Villaricos, Sta .

Almagrera , 2 land 1m, 24± 26 April 1997 (Gijswijt; ZMA) ; Nijar , 1 land 1m, 2 May 1997 (Gijswijt; ZMA); ( Granada) : Sierra Nevada , 1, 20 July 1980 (K. Guichard; BMNH) ; La Herradura, 10m, 24 June 1973 and 2 July 1974 (BoucÏek; BMNH, NMP); (Malaga) : Sta. Almenara 20 km N Aquilas, 1m, 28 April 1997 (Gijswijt; ZMA) ; Nerja , 6m, 23 June 1973 (BoucÏek, BMNH) ; Coin , 2, 1 June 1962 (Jekel en Wiering; ZMA) ; Torremolinos , 1m, 11 April 1984 (v. Achterberg; RMNH) .

Distribution. S. France, Spain ( Gayubo, 1991: 145, added to distribution provinces Zaragoza, Alicante and Almeria).