Ageniella (Ameragenia) Banks 1945
Creators: name: Rapoza, Márcia
name: Waichert, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Ageniella

description: Modified key from Waichert et al. (2018) to the species of Ageniella (Ameragenia) from Brazil (females)
1. Forewing maculated with darkened bands or distinct darkened spots ............................................. 2
– Forewing without maculations of darkened bands or darkened spots, if darkened spot present, then very weak .........................................................................................................................................11
2. Body black and rufous ...................................................................................................................... 3
– Body entirely black or blue ............................................................................................................... 5
3. Clypeus large, apical median margin with two teeth; head and pronotum rufous; metasoma black with blue metallic reflections; forewing hyaline with two darkened bands ....................................... .......................................................................................................... A. sanguinolenta (Smith, 1864)
– Clypeus various; head black (clypeus rufous in A. fabricii), pronotum various; metasoma various; forewing with or without darkened bands ........................................................................................ 4
4. Metasoma rufous; mesosoma and head black; forewings subhyaline with two darkened bands, the one on the basal vein narrow .................................................................... A. similaris (Banks, 1946)
– Metasoma black; mesosoma entirely or partially rufous, head black, clypeus rufous; forewing hyaline with two darkened bands, outer band incomplete .......................... A. fabricii (Banks, 1944)
5. Forewing with darkened spots partially covering cell 2M and fully covering cell 2Rs; cell 2Rs 0.69 × as long as 3Rs; clypeus trapezoidal, its surface slightly arched; fore tibia pale castaneous ............... ...................................................................................................................... A. agitata (Smith, 1873)
– Forewing with one or two transversal darkened bands; cells 2Rs and 3Rs of different lengths; clypeus various; fore tibia black .................................................................................................................... 6
6. Forewing with only one distinct darkened band (sometimes inconspicuous); silver setae covering integument on frons and distal portion of propodeum ...................................................................... 7
– Forewing with two distinct darkened bands; if silver setae present, not densely covering frons and propodeum ........................................................................................................................................ 8
7. Mid and hind femora, and inner side of fore femur pale castaneous; absence of blue reflections on hindwing veins and integument .............................................................. A. rustica (Fabricius, 1804)
– Fore, mid and hind femora black; blue reflections on hindwing veins and integument ..................... ........................................................................................................................ A. zeteki (Banks, 1925)
8. Integument black or blue without short and sparse golden pubescence; antennae various .............. 9
– Integument black with short and sparse golden pubescence, except propodeum, which has silver pubescence; antennomeres 1–8 light castaneous, segments 9–12 castaneous .................................... ................................................................................................................... A. banksii Waichert, 2018
9. Head and mesosoma blue with greenish reflections; clypeus blue with greenish reflections; antennae black .................................................................................................................... A. caerulea sp. nov.
– Head and mesosoma never blue, without greenish reflections; clypeus different than blue; antennae various ............................................................................................................................................. 10
10. Clypeus black; only antennomeres 7–10 yellowish; fore femur, tibia and tarsi black ....................... .................................................................................................................... A. citricornis (Fox, 1897)
– Clypeus pale castaneous; antennomeres entirely yellow; fore femur, tibia and tarsi black or dark castaneous and pale castaneous on the inner face ..................................... A. pretiosa (Banks, 1946)
11. Integument black with fore, mid and hind tibiae pale castaneous; forewing with a faint darkened spot on cells 2Rs and 2M ........................................................................................................................ 12
– Integument black, mid and hind tibiae black; forewing various .................................................... 13
12. Integument black with faint bluish reflections on head and metasoma; frons covered with silver scale-like setae from torulus to clypeus; anterior margin of clypeus trapezoidal; only fore tibia light castaneous ..................................................................................................... A. cleora (Banks, 1946)
– Integument black without bluish reflections on head and metasoma; frons without silver scalelike setae; anterior margin of clypeus rounded; fore, mid and hind tibiae with apical portion light castaneous ....................................................................................................... A. varipes (Fox, 1897)
13. Clypeus large, its surface arched, anterior margin with angulate median tooth ................................. ....................................................................................................................... A. clypeata (Fox, 1897)
– Clypeus with surface truncate, anterior margin without tooth ........................................................ 14
14. Legs and antennae entirely black; cell 2Rs about 0.65 × as long as 3Rs, tCu2 vein curved, very arched, as well as vein tCu1 ......................................................................... A. thione (Banks, 1946)
– Legs and antennae black, tibia with yellowish coloration; cells 2Rs and 3Rs of almost equal size .. ......................................................................................................................... A. serrula (Fox, 1897)
description: Published as part of Rapoza, Márcia & Waichert, Cecilia, 2022, Two new species of Ageniella Banks, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Brazil and updated keys, pp. 71-85 in European Journal of Taxonomy 787 on pages 80-81, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.787.1615, http://zenodo.org/record/5817989