Dinetus (Dentidinetus) dentipes E. Saunders 1910
Creators: name: Jacobs, Hans-Joachim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Dinetus
Dinetus dentipes

description: Dinetus (Dentidinetus) dentipes E. Saunders, 1910
(Figs 8, 23–26)
Dinetus dentipes E. Saunders, 1910: 530, ♀, ♂. Syntypes: Algeria: Biskra (UMO, BMNH).
Dinetus gracilis Giner Marí, 1945: 234, ♀. Holotype: ♀, Morocco: Saguia el Hamra: Arirar Garfa (Mus. Barcelona). Synonymized by de Beaumont (1960: 259).
Description female. Dorsal and lateral view: figs 23, 24.
Colour. Head black with yellow mandibular base, clypeus, frons and hind margin of eyes. Scape yellow with black reverse face. Antennomeres 2–5 yellow, the remaining brown. Pronotum yellow with median black spot. Pronotal lobe yellow. Scutum black with yellow spots before the tegula. Scutellum and metanotum yellow. Mesopleuron yellow with large black area on the distal half. Metapleuron black with yellow spot on the upper part. Propodeum black with yellow spots posterior and broad yellow U-shaped border of the dorsal area. Fore coxa yellow, middle and hind coxa black with yellow apex. Fore and middle femora yellow with brown stripe on the upper side. Hind femur reddish yellow. Tibia and tarsi of all legs reddish yellow. Metasoma light brown with broad ivory apical bands on terga I–III and V; VI ivory with orange apex.
Morphology. Head and thorax with long white setae, longer than diameter of front ocellus. Scutum, mesopleuron and propodeum except dorsally with appressed silver pubescence masking the sculpture. Propodeal enclosure dull, reticulated, without transverse striae. Hind trochanter with small tooth basally. Fore tarsal rake with long spines, longer than diameter of the basitarsus. Outer vein of subdiscoidal cell (cu) of fore wing oblique, almost converging with the nervulus (cu-a) (see fig. 2). Body length 5.0– 5.5 mm.
Description male. Dorsal and lateral view: figs 25, 26.
Colour. Colour and setae like female. Sterna I‒II yellow.
Morphology. Antenna stout, antennomere 3 about as long as broad, antennomeres 4‒6 broader than long. Fore trochanter with big tooth (fig. 8), underside of fore femur flattened, with little edge basally. Body length 5 mm.
Distribution. Algeria (type locality), Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan (see below), United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2014, see below), Turkmenistan (Myartseva 1972), Kazakhstan (Kazenas 2002).
Examined material. JORDAN: 2 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀ Wadi Rum, 05.05.1996, M. Halada leg., (CSE, OLML). MOROCCO: 1 ♂ 1 ♀ Beni-Bassia 60 km EN Boudnib, 21.05.1995, M. Halada leg., OLML); 3 ♂♂ 22 ♀ Bouarfa 10 km S, 19.‒ 20.05.1995, M. Halada leg., (OLML); 1 ♂ Gabes 70 km W, 16.04.1994, Schwarz leg. (OLML); 1 ♀ Mhamid 10 km N, 22.05.1995, Halada leg., (OLML); Nefta, 14.‒ 15.04.1981, Schwarz leg. (OLML); 1 ♂ Oued Draa Beni-Zouli 778 m, 02.04.2009, Jacobs leg. (JAC); 1 ♀ Taroudant, 11.05.2003, Halada leg. (OLML); 1 ♀ Tissint 2 km NW, 29.922N 7.328W, 12.04.2015 Schmid-Egger leg., GBOL 15143 (CSE); 1 ♀ Zagora, 24.04.1995, Halada leg. (OLML). TUNISIA: 1 ♂ 1 ♀ Nefta, 14.‒ 15.04.1981 Schwarz leg. (CSE,); 1 ♂ Remada 10 km NW, 10.04.2001, Halada leg. (photo) (OLML). UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: 1 ♂ Jebel Hafit, 24.07N 55.75E, 03.03.2011, van Harten leg. (CSE); 1 ♀ Jebel Hafit S Al Ain, 24.07N 55.75E, 16.11.2009, van Harten leg. (CSE); 1 ♂ Sharjah Desert Park, 25°17’N 55°42’E, 06.04.2005, van Harten leg., GBOL 15146. (CSE).
description: Published as part of Jacobs, Hans-Joachim, 2021, A review of Dinetus Panzer, 1806 with descriptions of five new species and keys to world species (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae), pp. 69-94 in Zootaxa 5061 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5061.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5642248