Cerceris bupresticida Dufour 1841
Creators: name: Malash, Alyaa A.
name: Edmardash, Yusuf A.
name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Cerceris
Cerceris bupresticida

description: Key to species of Cerceris bupresticida group of western Palearctic region.
1. Hindcoxa without carina ventrally; male gastral T 6 and S 6 without postero-lateral processes; scutum and propodeum partly or entirely yellow (Figs 16A, 17C).............................................. Cerceris palmetorum de Beaumont
- Hindcoxa with ventral carina along its whole length; at least male gastral S 6 with postero-lateral processes or teeth; scutum entirely black, without any yellow....................................................................... 2
2. Body black and red to dark reddish or ferruginous, without yellow (Fig. 2A, B); free margin of clypeal middle lobe of female shallowly, broadly emarginate (Fig. 2C, D)........................ Cerceris ammonia Malash, Edmardash & Gadallah
- Body black and yellow or whitish yellow, sometimes with some red; free margin of clypeal middle lobe of female truncate or nearly so............................................................................................ 3
3. Propodeum sparsely punctate adjacent to propodeal enclosure, punctures separated by more than one puncture diameter; body with some red markings................................................................................ 4
- Propodeum closely punctate adjacent to propodeal enclosure; body with or without red markings..................... 5
4. Female clypeus with minute, emarginate lamella just above free margin, free margin with four distinct teeth (Fig. 12B); T 1 distinctly short, globular (Fig. 11A, C); male S 6 only with postero-lateral process (Fig. 11E); male T 2 short, non-petiolate (Fig. 11A); female S 5 straight postero-medially (Fig. 13B)..................................... Cerceris hathor Pulawski
- Female clypeus without lamella, free margin of middle lobe wavy, with lateral minute tooth on each side (Fig. 19A); T 1 distinctly long (Figs 18B, 20A); male T 6 and S 6 with postero-lateral processes or spine (Fig. 21D); male T 2 elongate, narrowed at base (Fig. 20A); female S 5 distinctly emarginate postero-medially (Fig. 19D).............. Cerceris tricolorata Spinola
5. Propodeal enclosure longitudinally ridged throughout (Fig. 8B) or longitudinally ridged at base, then smooth and shiny (Fig. 5B), posterior corner of male S 6 only dentate; S 5 of female (see Fig. 8D); body with extensive yellow (Fig. 7 A-C)...................................................................................... Cerceris bupresticida Dufour
- Propodeal enclosure smooth and shiny (Fig. 14D); male posterior corners of both T 6 and S 6 with dents or teeth; S 5 of female (see Fig. 15B); pale parts of body (ivory-white) distinctly reduced (Fig. 14A, B)............ Cerceris odontophora Schletterer
description: Published as part of Malash, Alyaa A., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2024, A revision of bupresticida species group of Cerceris Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Philanthinae) of the Western Palearctic region, with the description of Cerceris ammonia, a new species from Egypt, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 5448 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11231152