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Didineis kozhevnikovi Kokujev 1906

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Didineis kozhevnikovi Kokujev 1906

Didineis kozhevnikovi Kokujev 1906: 218, ♀. Holotype: ♀, Russia, Moskovskaya Oblast, Serpukhovskii Rayon, no specific locality (ZIN), examined.

Didineis kozhevnikovi: Gussakovskij, 1937: 612; Bohart & Menke, 1976: 459. Alysson koshevnikovi [sic]: Pulawski, 1978: 213.

Material examined. Holotype of Didineis kozhevnikovi Kokujev—♀, Russia, Moskovskaya Oblast, Serpukhovskii Rayon, no specific locality, 1– 3.VIII (Katkov) (ZIN). Russia: 1♀, Kurskaya Oblast, Borisovka, 18.VII 1916 (Malyshev) (ZIN); 1♀, Udmurtiya, outfall of Siva River, 31.VII 1989 (Sitdikov) (ZIN).

Recognition. Didineis kozhevnikovi has a unique color combination: the pronotum and the metasomal base are red, whereas the scutum is contrastingly black. The well-defined scutal punctures are a subsidiary recognition feature.

Description. Body black with red pronotum and metasomal base. Propodeum sometimes partly red. Clypeus except for dark basal and lateral margins and scape ventrally yellow, flagellum black. Legs red. Frons and scutum well-defined very densely punctate (punctures about one diameter apart). Lateral surface of mesopleuron finely rugose, mat. Metasomal tergum II densely punctate (punctures less than one diameter apart). Female flagellomeres VI–IX twice as long as wide. Male unknown.

Distribution. Russia (Moskovskaya Oblast, Kurskaya Oblast, Udmurtiya).

Notes

Published as part of Nemkov, Pavel G., 2015, The digger wasps of the genus Didineis Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Bembicinae) of Russia and adjacent territories, with a key to species and new synonymies, pp. 391-400 in Zootaxa 3941 (3) on page 396, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/236033

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kokujev
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Crabronidae
Genus
Didineis
Species
kozhevnikovi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Didineis kozhevnikovi Kokujev, 1906 sec. Nemkov, 2015

References

  • Kokujev, N. R. (1906) O russkich predstavitelakh podsemeystva Alysonini Dalla Torre (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae). Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 37, 209 - 219.
  • Gussakovskij, V. V. (1937) Obzor palearkticheskikh vidov rodov Didineis Wesm., Pison Latr. i Psen Latr. (Hymenoptera, Sphecodea). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 4, 599 - 698. [plate. I]
  • Bohart, R. M. & Menke, A. S. (1976) Sphecid Wasps of the World. A generic revision. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, ix + 695 pp.
  • Pulawski, W. J. (1978) Nadsem. Sphecoidea. In: Medvedev, G. S. (Ed.), Opredelitel nasekomykh evropeyskoi chasti SSSR. Tom III. Pereponchatokrylye. Pervaya chast. Leningrad: Nauka, pp. 173 - 279.