Ammoplanellus handlirschi, Gussakovskij, 1931

Boucïek, Zdenek, 2001, Palaearctic species of Ammoplanus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), Journal of Natural History 35, pp. 849-929 : 885-886

A. handlirschi see marathroicus

A. ( Ammoplanus ) hoOEeri SÏnoāÂk

Ammoplanus hoOEeri SÏnoāÂk, 1943: 93±96. Czech Republic (S. Moravia): Brumovice. Lectoptype male, here designated; in MZMB (examined).

Type material. It was SÏnoāÂk’s practice to label as` Type’ both a female and a male, hence I designate herewith the male type as Lectotype. He stated that the type material was returned to Dr HoOEer. Thanks to our colleague, Dr P. Lauterer of Brno ( MZMB), most of the sphecid type material of hoOEeri could be located there, including a male from Brumovice that is here designated as LECTOTYPE; four other syntypes have been labelled as paralectotypes. To ®nd most of the type material in MZMB was surprising, because about 1967 Dr HoOEer sold his collection of Sphecidae , including the types, to the National Museum in Prague ( NMP) where I worked at the time. However, he failed to deliver the types that probably remained in his own hands till his death in 1981. Then part of his collection disappeared, including some types .

Diagnostic characters

Male. Head in lateral view, see ®gure 20. Underside of head apart from the two cavities (in both sexes) behind oral fossa with large cavity around foramen magnum reaching on sides occipital carina (®gures 19, 95). Antenna very long, ®rst ¯agellar segment distinctly longer than pedicel (as 13 5 7, pedicel itself 8 5 7); middle segments each 1.8±2.0 times as long as broad, cylindrical; ¯agellum bare, with dense elongate sensorial pits, very short and thin hairs present only on distal part of ¯agellum. Whole pterostigma of pale colour, not bicolorous.

Hind basitarsus moderately widened in middle, compressed from side-to-side, dorsally broader, ventral margin thin, mesal side distinctly concave and densely pubescent as the outer side; distal quarter of basitarsus narrower than base of segment.

Metasoma. Sternite 4 hardly longer than the third, with few hairs only in posterior corners. Sternite 5 with hind margin in median quarter angularly produced and here with broad lozenge of a very dense brush of erect but short, curved hairs; outside of lozenge the hairs becoming sparse and thinner, each arising from a tiny tubercle on more or less rugulose substrate; anterior corners of sternite almost bare. Sternite 6 short, its apex in middle slightly raised, bare, sides with short subdecumbent pilosity. For aedeagus see ®gure 97.

Female. In larger specimens a transverse area in front of mid ocellus smooth. Eye orbit on either side of frons deepened into elongate fovea (sometimes weak); lower ends of eyes strongly curved mesad in female, slightly less so in male. A diagonal depression present in larger specimens (of both sexes) formed by union of a large pit outside each antennal torulus with a shallower pit above torulus; in smaller specimens the pit becomes shallow or even disappears, in particular outside torulus. In female an angulate tooth present on the inner margin of each mandible (®gures 21, 96; di cult to see if mandibles closed). Clypeus with a long, rather parallel-sided median tooth which is depressed and often sculptured dorsally near apex; rarely with a shallow depression without sculpture; submedian teeth of clypeus about as apart as centres of toruli. Maxillary palpi with segments 2±6 strongly elongate, last two symmetric.

Comment. As to the concave or depressed area on the underside of head A. hoOEeri is similar to three other species as mentioned in the key; at present they are known to have a more easterly distribution, only A. rjabovi is known also from Greece. In some specimens of hoOEeri the depression behind the oral fossa is deeper than in others, in one female very shallow, but still bearing the coarse subparallel rugae .

Biology. Mainly in loess and sandy habitats.

Material examined. Czech Republic (Bohemia): Praha: Podhor, 2m; Hazmburk Hill nr Louny , 1m, 30 July 1949 ( BoucÏek ; NMP); (Moravia): Brno district : Bystrc, Z Ïluty kopec etc., 4 land 20m, C ÏejcÏ, 1m, August 1958 (Kocourek) . Slovakia: SÏtuÂrovo (5 Parkan) district, PlesÏivec, Somotor , 12 land 18m ( NMP, MZMB etc.) . Austria: Wien, NiederoÈsterreich, Burgenland, 27 land 51m, May to August 1937 ±1984 (Gusenleitner; OLML; Dollfuss, Schremmer etc.) . Jugoslavia (Serbia; Vojvodina); Deliblat Sands , Uljima , 1m, 1 July 1981 (Day and Fitton; BMNH) . Bulgaria: Madara , 1, 4 July 1928 (BiroÂ; TMB) . Greece (Peloponnisos): Olympia , 1m, 28 June 1964 (W. GruÈnwaldt; OLML) . Turkey (Anatolia): Kirikkale, 50 km E of Ankara, 2m, 25 July 1987 (Reinhold); (Sivas): 10 km S of GuÈruÈn, at GoÈpkinar , 1m, 30 July to 2 August 1983 (v.d. Brink and Wiering ; ZMA); (E. Anatolia): Saraycik, 2m, 22 June 1991 (K. Guichard, BMNH); (SE; Prov. Siirt): Botan Cayi Valley , 1m, 23 June 1985 (W. Schacht) .

Distribution. Czech Republic, south-east Poland, West Ukraine (Polesye, Podol; Noskiewicz and Pulawski, 1960: 71), south Slovakia, Austria, Hungary (e.g. BajaÂri, 1957: 91; Benedek, 1969: 421), Yugoslavia ( Serbia), Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey ( Anatolia).