Ageniella (Alasagenia) flavipennis (Banks, 1946) Waichert & Colombo & Von Dohlen & Pitts, 2018

Waichert, Cecilia, Colombo, Wesley Dondoni, Von Dohlen, Carol D. & Pitts, James P., 2018, Taxonomic contributions to Ageniella Banks, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Brazil, Zootaxa 4403 (1), pp. 133-153 : 138

Ageniella (Alasagenia) flavipennis (Banks, 1946) , comb. nov.

Lissagenia flavipennis BaNkS, 1946, MUS. COMp. ZOOL. BULL., vOL. 96, p. 457 [HOLOtypE: ♀, BRAZIL, SaNta CatarINa ( MCZ #26779 ), ExaMINEd].

Distribution. BRaZIL.

Host. Enoploctenus cyclothorax (BERTkaU) ( ARaNEaE : CTENIdaE ) (SaNTOS et al. 2017).

Remarks. ThIS IS ThE TYpE SpEcIES fOR Lissagenia . EVaNS (1973) dIffERENTIaTEd A. ( Alasagenia ) fROm A. ( Lissagenia ) bY ThE pRESENcE Of SERRaTE TIbIaE—WhEN VIEWEd IN pROfILE—IN ThE fORmER gROUp. HOWEVER, maLES Of A. ( Alasagenia ) Lack SpINES IN ThE hINd TIbIa aS WELL. WE jUSTIfY ThE NEW cOmbINaTION, aNd cONSEQUENTLY ThE NEW SUbgENUS SYNONYm, bY A. flavipennis haVINg SpEcImENS SETOSE aNd LaRgE, ThE cLYpEUS IS LaRgE aNd TRapEZOIdaL, ThE mESOpLEURUm IS pROjEcTEd LaTERaLLY IN fEmaLES, aNd ThE maLE SpEcImENS Lack STRONg SpINES ON ThE dORSaL facE Of ThE hINd TIbIa. ALL ThESE chaRacTERS aRE dIagNOSTIc fOR SUbgENUS Alasagenia . SaNTOS et al. (2017) REpORTEd fEmaLES Of A. flavipennis NESTINg cOmmUNaLLY IN BRaZIL, SãO PaULO STaTE, bY USINg mUd NESTS. ThIS WaS ThE fIRST REcORd Of a SpEcIES Of Ageniella bOTh NESTINg cOmmUNaLLY aNd USINg pRObabLY pRE-ExISTINg mUd NESTS.