Ammoplanus (Ammoplanus) denesi Boucïek 2001, sp. n.
Creators: name: Boucïek, Zdenek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Ammoplanus
Ammoplanus denesi

description: A. (Ammoplanus) denesi sp. n.
Male. Length of body 2.1 mm. Black including most of antenna and legs, but tarsi brown and underside of fl agellar segments beginning with fi fth, yellowish brown; white facial mask (fi gure 12) includes mandibles (except tips), labrum, sides of clypeus, spots in angles at eyes, a middle spot above black middle clypeus with tooth, and a spot anteriorly on lower half of scapus. Pterostigma bicolorous, with distal half darkened.
Head hardly broader than long, in upper half (as well as mesoscutum) moderately dull owing to dense engraved reticulation; punctures sparse, barely distinct. Frons regularly convex, without orbital foveae, only shallow depression present above toruli, interrupted by weak median ridge. Mid ocellus fully twice its diameter above upper ocular line. Eyes with inner orbits shallowly emarginate (fi gure 12), converging downward (above 50 apart, below only 40); in full view eye long-oval, as 42: 23. Toruli by nearly their diameter above lower ocular line, intertorular distance subequal to one diameter, distance from eye 1.4 times the diameter. Clypeal median tooth conical. Labrum transverse, fully twice as broad as long (high), not longer than one torular diameter, removed from torulus by a third of its diameter; its lower margin shallowly bilobed. Mandibles apparently (closed, not properly seen) without additional tooth on upper edge. Palpi not long; maxillary palpus with third segment the broadest, almost as long as two preceding ones combined. Underside of head convex, slightly dull, very fi nely striate. Occipital carina fi ne, laterally distinct. Antennal scapus widening distally; pedicel oblong; fl agellum very slightly clavate, short pilosity almost erect, placoid sensilla small, not conspicuous; fi rst two fl agellar segments subtransverse, following ones gradually quadrate to oblong, last one barely twice as long as broad, subacuminate.
Mesosoma. Pronotum not carinate. Mesoscutum convex, reticulate; parapsidal furrows hardly indicated. Scutellum with shallowly engraved reticulation and minute dispersed punctures; transverse groove close to anterior margin, narrow, not distinctly subdivided. Propodeal dorsum about two-thirds as long as broad, not convex, very shallowly and fi nely rugulose, median carina weak and irregular, con fi ned to anterior half, anteriorly accompanied by some low rugulae suggesting partial areolation. Mesepimeron almost smooth. Hind tarsus long, segments 1 plus 2 combined as long as hind tibia, basitarsus not modi fi ed, 0.72 the length of hind tibia.
Metasoma. Sternites 2 and 3 longer than 4 and 5, all bare and virtually without any sculpture, the fi fth with hind margin broadly and shallowly emarginate. Sternite 6 medially convex, posteriorly slightly produced and there bearing a broad elongate tuft of erect whitish setae, each seta at tip slightly curved caudad (fi gure 11).
Female. Not known.
Material examined. Turkey (S.E.): Nemrut Dagi, Karadut, HOLOTYPE male, 2 July 1993 (K. DenesÏ; OLML).
Distribution. Asiatic Turkey.
Etymology. Named in honour of the collector, Mr Karel DenesÏ.
description: Published as part of Boucïek, Zdenek, 2001, Palaearctic species of Ammoplanus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), pp. 849-929 in Journal of Natural History 35 on pages 878-879