Evansiclavelia Pitts, Rodriguez &amp; Shimizu 2021, gen. nov
Creators: name: Shimizu, Akira
name: Pitts, James P
name: Rodriguez, Juanita
name: Wahis, Raymond
name: Yoshimura, Jin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Evansiclavelia

description: <i>Evansiclavelia</i> Pitts, Rodriguez &amp; Shimizu, gen. nov. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:A2BAB947-2745- 4D26-B8B6-FCB40A34C083 Type species: <i>Evansiclavelia poecilopteryx</i> Pitts, Rodriguez &amp; Shimizu, sp. nov. (here designated). Diagnosis This genus differs from other genera of the Australian ‘Ctenocerini’ <i>sensu</i> Evans (1972) by the following female features: head wider than high (Fig. 4a); clypeus much narrower than LID, roughly rectangular in shape (lateral margin vertical and apical margin truncate), mostly flattened and polished; lower frons laterally to antennal sockets and below them deeply depressed with median bridge (frontal bridge) connecting frons and clypeus at the same level; eye broader than half of frons; malar space very long (Fig. 4a); gena in dorsal view abruptly receding posteriorly (Fig. 4b); and pronotum with anterior face vertical, flattened and polished, forming right angle with dorsum (Fig. 4c), latter truncate anteriorly, shallowly depressed anteromedially and posteriorly (Fig. 4b). Description <i>Female</i> Vertex moderately convex between eye tops (Fig. 4a), distance from eye top to vertex crest, in profile, less than tenth of eye height (Fig. 4c). Posterior ocelli at level of eye tops (Fig. 4a). Scape curved outward with lateral face concave (Fig. 4b). Uppermost portion of occipital suture very high, almost at level of vertex top (Fig. 4d, arrow). Pronotum with shoulder swollen (Fig. 4b). Propodeum with declivity rather flattened but not clearly divided from dorsum (Fig. 4c,e). Fore femur thinner than mid femur. Dorsal apex of fore tibia with short stout decurved spines interiorly (Fig. 4f) and exteriorly (Fig. 4g). All femora, tibiae and undersides of tarsomere 5 lacking spines. Hind tibiae without integumental serrations dorsally. Orbicula very small with a few divergent, straight, weak setae. Tarsal claws unidentate. Transverse groove on S2 almost concealed by posterior margin of S1. S6 compressed laterally with sharp median carina. <i>Male</i> Unknown. Distribution Australia. Etymology The generic name is in honour of the late entomologist Dr H. E. Evans, who was an authority on systematics and behaviour of solitary wasps, especially of spider wasps; and ‘ <i>Clavelia</i> ’ a generic name in the subfamily Ctenocerinae. The name is considered feminine.
description: Published as part of <i>Shimizu, Akira, Pitts, James P, Rodriguez, Juanita, Wahis, Raymond &amp; Yoshimura, Jin, 2021, Systematics and convergent evolution in three Australian genera of Pepsinae spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 301-316 in Austral Entomology 60 (2)</i> on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.1111/aen.12530, http://zenodo.org/record/4627871
description: {"references": ["Evans HE. 1972. The tribe Ctenoceratini in Australia (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 11, 244 - 252."]}