Arachnospila (Ammosphex) mongolica Moczar 1968

• Main Authors: Loktionov, Valery M., Lelej, Arkady S.
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Pompilidae; Arachnospila; Arachnospila mongolica; Orda; Primorskiy; Sakhalin; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6186267; https://zenodo.org/record/6186267

Arachnospila ( Ammosphex ) mongolica Móczár, 1968 (Figs 13, 14, 43, 65, 69, 85, 90, 107, 114) Arachnospila ( Holarctopompilus ) luctuosa mongolica Móczár, 1968: 429, Ƥ 3 (holotype, Ƥ, " Mongolia: Central aimak, Kerulen, 40 km O v. Somon Bajandelger, 1400 m, Exp. Dr. Kaszab, 1965, Nr. 304, 26.VII. 1965 " [Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest]). Arachnospila ( Ammosphex ) mongolica : Lelej 1995: 245, 3; Loktionov 2011: 83. Arachnospila mongolica : Zonstein 2002: 138, 3. Diagnosis of male. The male of this species clearly differs from other males by having flat hypopygium with dense long erect setae (Figs 13, 14 vs . 1 –12, 15– 37). Genitalia as in Fig. 43. Diagnosis of female. The female of this species is distinguished from other females of the subgenus Ammosphex by having ratio of eye width to half frontal width 0.8 and less (0.9 and more in A. ( A. ) anceps (Wesmael, 1851) and A . ( A .) wolfi Lelej, 1995), by protarsomere 1 with three short spines of tarsal comb (with four long spines in A. ( A. ) kaszabi Wolf and Móczár, 1972), by first flagellomere length 4.3 × and less its width (4.4 × in A . ( A .) zonsteini sp. nov. ), by apical flagellomere length almost 3 × its width (2 × in A. ( A. ) orientausa sp. nov. ), and by mesopleuron and propodeum with brownish micropubescence (silver or gray micropubescence in other females). Clypeus as in Fig. 65. Metapostnotum as in Fig. 85. Venation of fore wing as in Fig. 107. Material examined. RUSSIA. Primorskiy Terr.: 1 Ƥ 1 3, Khasan, 26.VI. 2010; 1 3, Ryazanovka, 15.VII. 1992; 1 3, 20 km N Plastun, 30.VII. 1986; 6 3, Anisimovka, 3, 4.VII.1982, 20.VII. 1992; 2 Ƥ 4 3, Brovnichi, 4, 6.VI. 1994; 3 Ƥ 6 3, Lazovsky Reserve, 11–17.VII. 2008; 1 3, 18 km SW Krounovka, 29, 30.VII. 1990; 2 3, Barabash-Levada, 28, 29.VI. 1978; 1 3, Evseyevka, 20.VI. 1981; 3 3, 20 km N Plastun, 30.VII. 1986; 1 3, Cheremukhovaya River, 20.VII. 1987. Amurskaya Prov.: 1 Ƥ, Blagoveschensk, 16.VIII. 1982; 1 Ƥ 1 3, Svobodnyi Trud, 11.VIII. 1982. Sakhalin: 2 Ƥ 1 3, Val, 14.VIII. 2003; 1 Ƥ, 20 km SW Nogliki, Tym River, 31.VII. 2002. Transbaikalskiy Terr.: 4 Ƥ 3 3, 30 km SW Borzya, 20, 21.VII. 1977; 1 3, Durbachi, 23.VII. 1984; 1 3, Khoranhoi, 2.VIII. 1977; 1 Ƥ, Chita, Peschanka, 28.VII. 1984 [IBSS]. Buryatia: 3 Ƥ, Gusinoye Lake, Baraty, 25, 26.VII. 2007; 20 Ƥ, Selenduma, 20, 21.V. 2008; 3 Ƥ, Ust-Kiran, Chikoy River, 27.V. 2008. Irkutsk Prov.: 1 3, Bolshie Koty, 12.VIII. 1983; 4 Ƥ 2 3, 15 km E Ust-Orda, Ordinsk, 2–5.VIII. 1994 [IBSS]. Distribution . Russia (Primorskiy Terr., *Amurskaya Prov., Sakhalin; Transbaikalskiy Terr., Buryatia, Irkutsk Prov.), Mongolia, East Kazakhstan (Lelej 2005), Kyrgyzstan (Zonstein 2002). Biology. Inhabits steppe areas and sandy shores along rivers and sea. Remarks. One female of Arachnospila ( Ammosphex ) mongolica from Transbaikalia somewhat differs from other examined females by the sculpture of anterior part of clypeus and by somewhat longer and denser setae on the frons and propodeum laterally. We regard these characters as variable and figure this specimen (Figs 69, 90, 114). : Published as part of Loktionov, Valery M. & Lelej, Arkady S., 2011, Review of the subgenus Ammosphex Wilcke, 1942 of the genus Arachnospila Kincaid, 1900 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Russian Far East and East Siberia, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 3137 on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202611 : {"references": ["Moczar, L. (1968) Ergebnisse der zoologischen Forschungen von Dr. Z. Kaszab in der Mongolei. 167. Pompilidae (Hymenoptera). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 14 (3 - 4), 427 - 439.", "Zonstein, S. (2002) [Supplementary materials to the spider wasp fauna (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Kyrgyzstan]. [Entomological Investigation in Kyrgyzstan], 22, 119 - 144. (In Russian).", "Wesmael, M. (1851) Revue critique des Hymenopteres fouisseurs de Belgique. Bulletin de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 18 (2), 362 - 384 [Mutillidae, Scoliidae, Sapygidae]; 451 - 493 [Pompilidae].", "Wolf, H. & Moczar, L. (1972) Ergebnisse der zoologischen forschungen von Dr. Z. Kaszab in der Mongolei. 287. Pompilidae Gattungen: Cryptocheilus bis Arachnospila (Hymenoptera). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 18 (1 - 2), 237 - 265.", "Lelej, A. S. (2005) [Spider wasps (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) of Sakhalin Island]. In: Bogatov, V. V., Barkalov, V. Y., Lelej, A. S., Makarchenko, E. A. & Storozhenko, S. Y. (Eds.), [Flora and Fauna of Sakhalin Island (Materials of International Sakhalin Island Project). Part 2]. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, pp. 122 - 140. (In Russian)."]}