Cryptocheilus schakuhensis Egger & Liebig 2019
Creators: name: Egger, Christian Schmid-
name: Liebig, Wolf-Harald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Cryptocheilus
Cryptocheilus schakuhensis

description: Cryptocheilus schakuhensis SCHMID- EGGER & LIEBIG nov.sp. (figs 10 -18)
H o l o t y p e: 1♀ 04.vii.2018 Amol (Mazandaran) 36.400 N, 52.343 E leg. Liebig, coll. SDEI (Müncheberg).
P a r a t y p e s: 1♀ 06.vii.2018 Pol Aram (Golestan) 36.920 N, 55.115 E; 1♀ 02.vii.2018 Ziarat, mountain road (Golestan) 36.680 N, 54.564 E; 1♂ 05.vii.2018 Ziarat, plateau (Golestan) 2299 m 36.696 N, 54.575 E; 1♀ 08.vii.2018 Hossein Abad (Semnan) 37.197 N, 55.702 E all leg. Liebig, coll. Liebig and CSE.
R e m a r k: The genus Cryptocheilus is under revision by the senior author. There is no key for species from Iran available, and species can only be recognized by original descriptions.
D i a g n o s i s: The female of C. schakuhensis nov.sp. is characterized by colour pattern. It is all black with lateral white spots on T2 and a medial white spot on T4. Inner eye margin has a small white spot. This colour pattern is unique among Cryptocheilus species from the palearctic region. The male is all black, with lower inner eye margin white, and innerside of foretibia orange-red. Wing colour is distinctive: Wings are yellowish-grey infuscate, with wing apex dark with violet shimmer.
D e s c r i p t i o n f e m a l e: Body length 13.5 mm. Colour: Black, the following parts whitish (with some yellow tinge): Small round spot on inner eye margin medially, small irregular spot near hindmargin of mesoscutum, large triangular spots on T2 laterally, large oval spot on T4 medially. Mandible medially and foretibia apically with some red. Wings infumate yellowish-greyish, apex dark. Apical clypeal margin emarginated in whole width. Metapostnotum narrow. Propodeum with fine, crosswise striation. Tergites without punctures. Otherwise similar to Crypocheilus elegans.
V a r i a t i o n i n f e m a l e s p a r a t y p e s: Paratypes are smaller, 9.5-11.0 mm, and agree otherwise with holotype.
D e s c r i p t i o n m a l e: Body length 11.5 mm. Black, large triangular band on inner eye margin (between antennal socket and clypeus) whitish. Innerside of foretibia and small spot on apex of forefemora reddish. Clypeus laterally, lower mesopleuron and coxa with thin silver pubescence. Wings as in females, but contrast between greyyellowish part and dark apex is more distinct as in females. Metapostnotum 0.6x as long as metatnotum, with some distinct rugae. Striation of propodeum coarser as in females. S8 flat, with indistinct medial keel, apically truncate, with a row of short setae around margin in apical half of S8. Genital see fig. 17, SGP see fig. 18.
E t y m o l o g y: The species is named after the mountain Schah Kuh north of Bastam close to the type area.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Northern Iran.
description: Published as part of Egger, Christian Schmid- & Liebig, Wolf-Harald, 2019, New records of Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) from northern Iran with description of a new species, pp. 1195-1203 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2) on pages 1198-1199, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3742262