Priophanes Banks 1944
Creators: name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Colombo, Wesley Dondoni
name: Von Dohlen, Carol D.
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Priophanes

description: Key to the species of Priophanes from Brazil (female)
1 Forewing hyaline maculated with two dark bands............................................................ 2
- Forewing hyaline without dark bands...................................................................... 7
2 Integument with golden scale-like setae; face with invaginations laterally to the antennal insertion..................... 3
- Integument without golden scale-like setae; face without invaginations laterally to the antennal insertions............... 4
3 Clypeus large, convex, with a median projection on the anterior margin, similar to a tooth; metasoma black covered with gol- den setae........................................................................... A. sericosoma (Banks)
- Clypeus large, rounded without median projection on the anterior margin; metasoma orange-rufous without golden setae....................................................................................... A. rufigaster (Banks)
4 Integument rufous; forewing subhyaline with two faint bands; clypeus trapezoidal with an apical median tooth............................................................................................... A. pictipennis (Banks)
- Integument various; forewing various; clypeus various........................................................ 4
5 Antennal segments 1–7 orange-rufous (7th segment with brown color as well); fore tibia, including the very distal portion of the fore femur, mid and hind tarsi orange-rufous.................................................. A. rufitarsis (Fox)
- Antennal segments uniform in color; legs various........................................................... 6
6 Head, legs and metasoma black with bluish reflections, mesosoma rufous; clypeus trapezoidal with anterior margin slightly tri- lobed; forewing with three wide dark bands and two white bands................................... A. comes (Banks)
- Head, mesosoma and metasoma black with bluish reflections; clypeus trapezoidal with anterior margin slightly prolonged medially; forewing with two dark bands................................................... A. pallicornis (Banks)
7 Forewing darkened; metasoma with basal terga 1–4 rufous, apical terga black......................... A. basirufa (Fox)
- Forewing hyaline or subhyaline; metasoma uniform in color (basal terga black in A. otiosa)........................... 8
8 Metasoma black; dorsal integument covered with cuprum setae; forewing hyaline.................................. 9
- Metasoma rufous, apical terga black; dorsal integument covered with cuprum setae; forewing subhyaline, tip broadly brownish....................................................................................... A. otiosa (Banks)
9 Integument black without bluish-purple reflections; forewing slightly fuscous; clypeus trapezoidal, large, anterior margin sli- ghtly invaginate medially................................................................ A. nigerrima (Fox)
- Integument black with faint bluish-purple reflections; forewing subhyaline; clypeus various......................... 10
10 Forewing with a faint darkened band partially covering cells R, 1M, and 1Cu–2Cu, and cells 2R1, 1Rs–2Rs, and 2M, vein M has a small-faint spot; legs black; clypeus rounded............................................ A. dolorosa (Banks)
- Forewing without faint darkened bands; mid and hind femora, tibia and basitarsi rufous; clypeus truncate below............................................................................................. A. erythroptera (Banks)
description: Published as part of Waichert, Cecilia, Colombo, Wesley Dondoni, Von Dohlen, Carol D. & Pitts, James P., 2018, Taxonomic contributions to Ageniella Banks, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Brazil, pp. 133-153 in Zootaxa 4403 (1) on page 146, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/1212065