Pristocera Klug 1808
Creators: name: Fadeev, Kirill I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Pristocera

description: Key to species of the genera Pristocera and Pristepyris European part of Russia and adjacent territories
1. Males (♂) winged; body mainly black (Figs 1A, 2, 4A, 5, 7A).................................................. 2
- Females (♀) wingless; body mainly yellow or reddish (Figs 1B, 3, 4B, 6, 7B, 8)................................... 4
2(1). Metasomal segments entirely black or dark brown (Fig. 7A); hypopygium not divided into two lobes, subtriangular (Fig. 7C); distal part of harpe slender, slightly curved; active in July – October; body length 7.0–8.0 mm............................................................................................ Pristepyris masii (Giordani Soika, 1933)
- Metasomal segments I–III reddish, remainder segments brown (Figs 1A, 2G, 4A, 5K); hypopygium deeply divided into two lobes (Figs 1D, 4C); distal part of harpe wide and flattened; active from February to June, usually in spring.............. 3
3(2). Median carina of clypeus high, subtriangular in lateral view with its outer corner almost right and only apex weakly rounded; transverse pronotal carina and posterior pronotal sulcus absent (Figs 2C, F); dorsal pronotal area with transverse striation in narrow anterior part (Figs 1A, 2F); forewing hyaline, not darkened (Figs 1A, 2K); metapectal-propodeal disc with median carina developed posteriorly, forming narrow elongated cell (Figs 1A, 2I); harpelong and twice sinuate, without tooth on inner side of end; aedeagus long, conical, slender, its apical lobe long and deeply divided up to half its length; active in early spring; body length 8.0–12.0 mm..................................................... Pristocera depressa (Fabricius, 1804)
- Median carina of clypeus low (Figs 5A, C), arched in lateral view; transverse pronotal carina and posterior pronotal sulcus well developed (Figs 5C–E).; dorsal pronotal area without transverse striation (Figs 4A, 5D); forewing faintly darkened from pterostigma to wing apex (Figs 4A, 5M); metapectal-propodeal disc without median carina (Figs 4A, 5D); parameres (harpe) short, C-shaped and with low blunt tooth on inner side of end; aedeagus short, subconical, thick, its apical lobe divided up to quarter its length, rounded; active from late spring to half of summer; body length 10.0–14.0 mm................................................................................................... Pristocera morawitzi sp. nov.
4(1). Median lobe of clypeus with two short projections and central notch in dorsal view (Fig. 8A, B); active in July–August (second half of summer); body length 4.0–6.0 mm................................. Pristepyris masii (Giordani Soika, 1933)
- Median lobe of clypeus with three or four projections and without central notch in dorsal view (Figs 3A, 6A); active from February to July (usually in spring to first half of summer); body length 7.0–10.0 mm............................... 5
5(4). Mandible with three teeth (Fig. 3B); median lobe of clypeus with four projections in dorsal view (Fig. 3A); head with convex dorsal and ventral surfaces in lateral view, narrowed anteriorly (Fig. 3E); head and dorsal pronotal area slightly longer than its width, with sparse punctation (Figs 1B; 3A, C); metapectal-propodeal complex polished dorsally (Figs 1B, 3C), with single punctures along lateral sides (Fig. 3C); active from February to July, commonly in early spring, April – May.................................................................................... Pristocera depressa (Fabricius,1804)
- Mandible with four teeth (Fig. 6B); median lobe of clypeus with three projections in dorsal view (Fig. 6A); head with flat and parallel-sided dorsal and ventral surfaces in lateral view (Fig. 6E); head and dorsal pronotal area distinctly longer than width, with dense punctation (Figs 4B; 6 A–C); metapectal-propodeal complex sparsely punctate dorsally with dense punctures along their lateral sides (Figs 4B, 6C); active in May – June.................................. Pristocera morawitzi sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Fadeev, Kirill I., 2021, Review of the genera Pristocera Klug and Pristepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera Bethylidae, Pristocerinae) of Russia and adjacent territories, pp. 461-482 in Zootaxa 4965 (3) on pages 479-480, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4965.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4753699