Gonaporus setitarsus I. Zonstein & Wahis, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zonstein, Irina
name: Wahis, Raymond
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Gonaporus
Gonaporus setitarsus

description: Gonaporus setitarsus I. Zonstein & Wahis, sp. nov.
(Figs 96, 107, 118, 128, 139, 150, 161, 172, 183, 193, 206, 214)
Diagnosis. Gonaporus setitarsus sp. nov. is most similar to G. israelicus. The females of both species have more than one long anteroventral spine on the protarsomere 1 (Figs 26, 135, 139); and both sexes have dense pubescence on the metapostnotum (Figs 30–32). The other congeners have mostly short anteroventral spines on the protarsomere 1 (sometimes only one spine is long). G. simulator sp. nov. has pubescence on the metapostnotum, but the pubescence is very sparse (Fig. 34). Males of G. israelicus and G. setitarsus sp. nov. share a unique character among Gonaporus species—the asymmetrical and widened protarsomere 5, and similarly to G. jaziratensis sp. nov., they have long hyaline spines on the protarsus (Figs 23, 146, 150). However, the males of G. israelicus and G. setitarsus sp. nov. have very convex subgenital plate with two longitudinal keels on its ventral side (Figs 204, 206) and genitalia with widened paramere and characteristic shape of volsella, that is pointed apically (Figs 212, 214). The male of G. jaziratensis sp. nov. has convex subgenital plate but lacking longitudinal keels (Fig. 205), the parameres are not widened apically and the volsella is oval and not pointed apically (Fig. 213). The female of G. setitarsus sp. nov. differs from the females of G. israelicus by the presence of three (not two) spines in the anteroventral row of the tarsal comb. The male of G. setitarsus sp. nov. differs from the male of G. israelicus by the presence of six (not three) posterior spines on the protarsomere 1 and by the longer protarsomere 1 (Table 2).
Description. Female. Body length 5.7 mm. Structure: see in Table 1. Coloration: Head mostly black; inner and outer orbits with narrow orange stripes along eye margin; clypeus black on basal half and orange on apical; mandible mostly yellowish-orange, dark orange on apical 0.33; scape orange dorsally, yellowish-orange ventrally; flagellum brown dorsally, orange-brown ventrally. Mesosoma mostly black except of orange posterior edge of pronotum; tegula orange. Legs mostly orange; coxae black basally, orange apically; tarsi orange-brown; spur of fore leg hyaline basally, blackish apically; other spurs mostly hyaline, slightly blackish apically; spines of tarsal comb mostly hyaline, slightly orange basally; other spines orange. Metasoma brownish-orange; pygidium black, shiny. Setae: Head and propleuron with numerous long fine whitish setae; clypeus with moderately long brownish setae. Protarsomere 1 with 3 long spines posteriorly and 3 long spines anteroventrally (Fig. 139).
Male. Body length 3.9–5.8 mm. Structure: see Table 2. Subgenital plate (Fig. 206): hirsute, reversetrapeziform, trapeziform in cross-section. Genitalia as in Fig. 214. Coloration: Head mostly black; inner orbit with narrow orange stripe along eye margin; clypeus black basally, orange-brown apically; mandible mostly yellow, orange-brown apically; antenna yellowish-orange ventrally, brown dorsally. Mesosoma mostly black except of orange lateral and posterior edges of pronotum; tegula light yellow. Legs mostly orange; coxae mostly orange, narrowly black basally; protarsus mostly orange, meso- and metatarsus mostly orange to mostly brown, apical tarsomeres of all legs brown; spur of fore leg whitish basally, blackish apically; other spurs brownish-orange; leg spines hyaline to light orange. Metasoma: Segment 1–2 orange, segment 3 orange basally, blackish-orange apically; segments 4–6 mostly black, yellowish-orange apically; T7 with large white spot medially. Setae: Posterior part of head with long fine whitish setae.
Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the strongly spined protarsus of both sexes.
Material examined. Holotype: ♂, PAKISTAN: Karachi, 1911, T. R. Bell (BMNH). Paratypes: PAKISTAN: Karachi, T. R. Bell, 2♂; Karachi, T. R. Bell, 1♀ (all in BMNH).
Distribution. Pakistan (Fig. 217).
Habitat. Unknown.
Biology. Unknown.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Irina & Wahis, Raymond, 2015, Revision of the Palaearctic genus Gonaporus Ashmead, 1902 of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 451-505 in Zootaxa 4018 (4) on pages 487-488, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234261