Gonaporus maureanus Wolf 1990
Creators: name: Zonstein, Irina
name: Wahis, Raymond
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Gonaporus
Gonaporus maureanus

description: Gonaporus maureanus Wolf, 1990
(Figs 93, 115, 136, 158, 180)
Gonaporus maureanus Wolf, 1990: 634 (holotype, ♀: Mededra, Mauritania [MNHN], examined); S. Zonstein 2001: 140.
Diagnosis. In comparison with its congeners, the female of this species has mostly shorter acuminate spines of the tarsal comb (Table 1, Fig. 136). G. maureanus is most similar to G. ecbatanus differing from the latter by the straight abscissa Rs1 of the hind wing (Fig. 180) and shorter malar space (Table 1). The male is similar to those of G. ecbatanus and G. gracilis, differing from both species by the straight abscissa Rs1 of the hind wing, whereas in males of G. ecbatanus and G. gracilis abscissa Rs1 of the hind wing is mostly arcuate. The male subgenital plate and genitalia of G. maureanus are very similar to G. ecbatanus, the only difference is the shape of the subgenital plate, which is slightly wider in G. ecbatanus.
Redescription. Female. Body length 6.8–7.8 mm. Structure: see Table 1. Coloration: Head dark blackishorange; clypeus light orange with almost straight anterior margin; mandible reddish-yellow basally and medially, and dark brownish-orange on apical 0.33; antenna brownish-orange, darkened apically. Mesosoma orange; tegula light yellowish-orange. Legs orange; apical tarsomeres orange-brown; spines of tarsal comb light orange basally, hyaline apically; other leg spines light orange-brown. Metasoma entirely orange; pygidium brownish-orange and shiny. Setae: Occiput and procoxa with few fine long reddish setae or without setae. Protarsomere 1 with 3 long spines posteriorly (Fig. 136) and 1 short to relatively long spine anteroventrally.
Male. Body length 6.5 mm. Structure: see Table 2. Subgenital plate similar to G. ecbatanus, but slightly wider. Genitalia not distinguishable from G. ecbatanus. Coloration: Head mostly black; clypeus mostly orange, black apically; mandible mostly yellow, dark orange apically; scape orange; pedicel brownish-orange; flagellum mostly brown, F1–6 yellowish-orange ventrally. Mesosoma mostly black; pronotum and propodeum blackish-orange; tegula yellowish-orange. Legs: Coxae, trochanters, femora, tibiae orange; tarsi mostly brown, tarsomere 1 orangebrown basally; spur of fore leg orange basally, brownish-orange apically; other spurs brown; posterior spines on protarsomere 1 orange-brown; other leg spines dark brown. Metasoma: Segment 1–4 orange, segments 4–7 orangebrown. Setae: Clypeus with fine short whitish setae; head (posteriorly) and propleuron with moderately long fine whitish setae.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀: MAURITANIA: Trarza, Mederdra, 1908, G. Mere (MNHN). Other material. CHAD: Kanem district, iv.1958, P. Renaud, 1♀ (CRW); EGYPT: Assiut, 9.v.1981, KMS, 1♂ (BMNH).
Distribution. Mauritania, Chad, Egypt (Fig. 216).
Habitat. Unknown.
Biology. Unknown.
Notes. The conspecificity of the male described here with the holotype female from Mauritania and the second female from Chad is questionable. We recognize the male as G. maureanus according to the straight abscissa Rs1 of the hind wing, differing from males of G. ecbatanus of the same size, which have the arcuate abscissa Rs1 of the hind wing (in small-sized males of G. ecbatanus this section is straight). However, the male that is recognized here as G. maureanus may actually belong to G. ecbatanus.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Irina & Wahis, Raymond, 2015, Revision of the Palaearctic genus Gonaporus Ashmead, 1902 of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 451-505 in Zootaxa 4018 (4) on pages 482-483, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234261