Ammophila iliensis KAZENAS
Creators: name: Dollfuss, H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Ammophila
Ammophila iliensis

description: Ammophila iliensis KAZENAS (Figs 631-641)   
 Ammophila tsunekii KAZENAS 1978: 661, ♀, 3, junior primary homonym of Ammophila tsunekii MENKE 1976. Holotype: ♀, Kazakhstan: Ili River Valley 15 km E Ayak-kalkan (ZIN), not examined.   
 Ammophila iliensis KAZENAS 2001: 18. Substitute name for Ammophila tsunekii KAZENAS 1978.   
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d:None.  
D e s c r i p t i o n: (KAZENAS 1978: 661, translated from Russian by H.-J. Jacobs): " ♀: Bodylength 16 mm. Clypeus and frons covered with appressed silvery setae which obscure most of underlying sculpture. Ventral (glabrous) part of clypeus with fine dense punctuation on smooth ground. Eyes convergent beneath (Fig. 631), minimal distance at top of clypeus 1.3× smaller than at level of midocellus. Vertex sparsely punctate, indistinctly microscopically reticulate and micropunctate. OOD: POD = 1.3. Flagellomere I nearly twice as long as II (Fig. 632). Last flagellomere approximately twice as long as apically broad. Pronotal lobe dorsally notched and anteriorly and laterally microsculptured and micropunctate. Scutum nearly all glabrous, laterally more or less covered with appressed setae, with sparse coarse punctures (punctures 3.5-4.0× smaller than midocellus) and indistinctly microscopically reticulate. Scutellum sculptured like scutum, longitudinally ridged posteriorly. Thorax with dense appressed silvery setae that obscure nearly all sculpture. Propodeal enclosure irregularly rugose and punctate, with irregularly distributed silvery setae. Claws without teeth. Petiole nearly as long as tergum I, 1.2× shorter than hindtibia and 1.55× as long as hindtarsomere I. Terga with extremely fine reticulate microsculpture, head and thorax black. Mandible largely, clypeus next to ventral margin and tegula red. Flagellum brown, scape anteriorly reddish, wing veins reddish-brown, red at wing base. Gaster largely red, petiole nearly all, tergum I (dorsally black), tergum VI apically brownish. Legs on most parts red, coxa and hindtrochanter nearly all black.  
 3: Bodylength 19 mm. Eyes strongly convergent beneath (Fig. 635), minimal distance at top of clypeus 1.8× shorter than at level of midocellus. OOD: POD = 1.25. Flagellomere I 1.6× longer than flagellomere II and 4× longer than broad on the apex. Last flagellomere truncate apically, 2.2× as long as broad (Fig. 636). Flagellomeres II-XI with tyloids on inner surface. Setae and sculpture as in female, only pronotum and scutum with more abundant setae. Petiole 1.1× as long as tergum I, nearly 1.3× shorter than hindtibia and 1.6× longer than hindtarsomere I. Colouring as in female, only mandible nearly all brown, clypeus black, tergum V dorsally with black spot, terga VI-VII all black. Distinctive for this species are the dense appressed silvery setae that are only present in A. tomentosa. A. iliensis differs from A. tomentosa in having a different coloration and the sculpture of the thorax."   
G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Kazakhstan.
description: Published as part of Dollfuss, H., 2013, Revision of the Wasps Genus Ammophila KIRBY 1798 (Hymenoptera Apoidea Sphecidae) of the Palearctic Region and India, pp. 383-564 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (1) on pages 447-448, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5341134