Priocnemis (Priocnemis) germana Cresson 1867
Description
Priocnemis (Priocnemis) germana (Cresson, 1867)
(Figs 31–33)
Pompilus (Priocnemis) germanus Cresson, 1867: 116, ♀. Syntypes, 3 ♀, " Connecticut, Delaware " (USA) [ANSP]. Salius germanus: Dalla Torre 1897: 226.
Priocnemis (Priocnemis) germana: Krombein 1979: 1531.
Diagnosis. Male. Body length 7.0 mm. Suberect setae on volsella ventrally long; paramere with three separated tufts of long spines (Figs 31, 32). Hypopygium wide, 1.2 × its width (Fig. 33). Female. Body length 8.5 mm. Propodeum posteriorly with fine transverse striae. Fore wing with subapical milky white spot. Fore wing cu-a postfurcal 0.8 × its length. Metasoma completely black.
Material examined. USA. Michigan: 1 ♀, Missaukee Co., Mich., 11.VII.1959 (R. and K. Dreisbach); 1 ♂, Midland Co., Mich., 18–22.VII.1959 (R.R. Dreisbach) [OLL].
Distribution. USA (from Atlantic coast to 100° west in Transition and upper Austral zones, Colorado and Arizona) (Krombein 1979).
Etymology. We regard the original specific name as Latinized adjective germanus, - a, um (cognate, consanguine) which should be agree in gender with the current generic name (ICZN 1999, article 31.2).
Remarks. The material from USA has been identified by Dreisbach R.R.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ANSP
- Event date
- 1959-07-11 , 1959-07-18
- Family
- Pompilidae
- Genus
- Priocnemis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Cresson
- Species
- germana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Verbatim event date
- 1959-07-11 , 1959-07-18/22
- Taxonomic concept label
- Priocnemis (Priocnemis) germana Cresson, 1867 sec. Loktionov, Lelej & Xu, 2017
References
- Cresson, E. T. (1867) Notes on the Pompilidae of North America, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 1, 85 - 150.
- Dalla Torre, C. G. de (1897) Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusgue Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonimicus. Folumen FIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Guilelmi Engelmann, Lipsiae [Leipzig], [4] + viii + 750 pp.
- Krombein, K. V. (1979) Superfamily Pompiloidea. In: Krombein, K. V., Hurd, P. D. Jr., Smith, D. R. & Burks B. D. (Eds.), Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Fol. 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., pp. 1523 - 1571.