Arachnospila (Ammosphex) abnormis Dahlbom 1842
Creators: name: Loktionov, Valery M.
name: Lelej, Arkady S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Arachnospila
Arachnospila abnormis

description: Arachnospila (Ammosphex) abnormis (Dahlbom, 1842)
(Figs 3, 4, 38, 57, 77, 95)
Pompilus abnormis Dahlbom, 1842: 10, 3 (lectotype, 3 "UPPBO, ö. Dalarne. 2.9.[18]40" [Sweden], designated by v.d. Smissen 1996: 88 [Universitetets Zoologiska Institution, Lund, Sweden]).
Pompilus (Boreopompilus) abnormis: Wolf 1966: 43, 51, 54, 92, Ƥ 3.
Arachnospila (Boreopompilus) abnormis: Wolf 1972: 96, 98, 112, Ƥ 3.
Arachnospila (Ammosphex) abnormis: Tobias 1978: 128, 130, Ƥ 3; Wahis 1986: 19; Lelej 1995: 243, 3; 2005: 127, Ƥ 3; v.d. Smissen 1996: 86, 87, Ƥ 3; Loktionov 2011: 83; Wahis 2011.
Arachnospila abnormis: Zonstein 2002: 137.
Diagnosis of male. The male of this species is easily distinguished from other males of Arachnospila (Ammosphex) abnormis -species group (hypopygium ventro-preapically with tuft of long erect setae medially) by having one row of bristles (not setae) on the hypopygium baso-laterally (Figs 3, 4 vs. 1, 2, 5–12). Genitalia as in Fig. 38.
Diagnosis of female. The female of this species is very similar to that of Arachnospila (Ammosphex) kuwayamai (Ishikawa, 1966) by having apical spine of first protarsomere more than 0.5 of protarsomere 2 in length, by shiny frons, by ratio of first flagellomere length to its width 3.2–3.9, by protarsomere 1 with three spines, but clearly differs by having curved 2rs-m vein of fore wing (Fig. 95 vs. 106). Clypeus as in Fig. 57. Metapostnotum as in Fig. 77.
Material examined. RUSSIA. Primorskiy Terr.: 1 3, Khasan, 13.VII.1992; 2 3, "Kedrovaya Pad" Reserve, 5.VI.1997; 1 3, Vladivostok, 3.VI.1978; 1 3, Anisimovka, 21.VI.1975; 1 3, Lazovsky Reserve, 20–21.VII.2006; 1 3, Milogradovo, 14.VI.1986; 1 3, Margaritovka, 14.VI.1986; 1 3, Uglekamensk, 2.VI.1994; 3 Ƥ 12 3, Brovnichi, 18.VII.1984, 5.VI.1994; 1 3, Novitzkoe, 18.VIII.1985; 1 3, Suvorovka, 13.VI.1993; 1 Ƥ 5 3, Ussuriiskiy Reserve, 30.VIII.1982, 9.VIII.1986, 2.VI.1989; 6 3, Barabash-Levada, 29.VI.1978, 3, 4.VI.1980, 23.VI.1999; 2 3, Novoselische, 5.VI.1977; 2 3, Yakovlevka, 25.VII.1986; 1 3, Shumnyi, 28.VI.1989; 1 3, Tekhmenevo, 4.VIII.1986; 1 3, 70 km SE Chuguevka, 13.VII.2010. Khabarovsk Terr.: 1 3, 15 km SW Elabuga, 4.VIII.1975; 3 3, Savinskoe, 8.VIII.1991. Amurskaya Prov.: 1 3, Shimanovsk, 1–3.VII.1958; 1 Ƥ 1 3, Natal'ino, 11, 12.VII.1975. Sakhalin: 4 Ƥ 1 3, Pomr Bay, 13.VIII.2003. Kamchatka: 1 Ƥ 1 3, 10 km S Kozyrevsk, 23.VII.1985; 2 Ƥ 1 3, Esso, 20.VII.2005; 1 Ƥ 1 3, 20 km E Esso, 21.VII.2005. Chukotka: 1 Ƥ 1 3, Omolon River, 180 km N Omolon, 24.VII, 16.VIII.1976. Magadan Prov.: 1 3, 50 km N Magadan, 2.VII.1975; 2 3, Seimchan, 24.VII, 4.VIII.1975. Buryatia: 2 3, Ust-Kiran, Chikoy River, 27.V.2008. Irkutsk Prov.: 1 3, Baikalsk, 30.VI.1983. BELARUS. 1 3, Pinsk, 15.VII.1987 [IBSS].
Distribution. Russia (Primorskiy Terr., Khabarovsk Terr., Amurskaya Prov., North Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Magadan Prov., Chukotka; north-east, center and south of European part) (Tobias 1978; Lelej 2005), Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands (Wahis 2011), Ukraine, Belarus (Shlyachtenok 1996), Kazakhstan, North-East China, Kyrgyzstan (Zonstein 2002).
Biology. Nests in natural cavities in the ground, sometimes females excavate short tunnels ending in a single cell (WiŠniowski 2009).
The cleptoparasites of Arachnospila (Ammosphex) abnormis are pompilids: Evagetes sahlbergi (Dahlbom) and E. siculus (Lepeletier) (v.d. Smissen 2003).
description: 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 3-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202611