Belomicrus heinrichwolfi Schmid, 2021, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Schmid, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Belomicrus
Belomicrus heinrichwolfi

description: Belomicrus heinrichwolfi SCHMID- EGGER nov.sp. (figs 4, 11, 18)   
H o l o t y p e: Spain, 1♂, 7.-14.v.1989 Alicante, Javes [38.802N 0.181E] (H. Wolf leg. coll. CSE).  
 D i a g n o s i s: B. heinrichwolfi nov.sp. is similar to B. christmani nov.sp., described from Morocco. Both species share a special and unique form of the squamae (fig. 4). It has a deep, U-shaped emargination apically. Both species differ by the surface of the squamae, which is distinctly shiny in B. heinrichwolfi nov.sp. and with some striae and more dull in B. christmani nov.sp.   
D e s c r i p t i o n o f m a l e h o l o t y p e: Body length 4.2 mm. Colour: Black, with the following parts yellow: basal half of mandible (apex black), scape (with brown band above), flagellomeres below, pronotal lobe, margin of squamae, apex of femora, tibiae and tarsi, apex of tergite VI. Tegula and basal sclerite of forwing transparent with some reddish parts, basal veins of forewing reddish, remaining veins dark brown. Wings transparent. Apical margin of tergites reddish. Morphology: Ventral mandibular margin straight. Apical clypeal margin weakly tridentate, lateral corner black, medial point with obtse angle, reddish (fig. 18). Clypeus shiny below. Gena shiny below near mandibular socket, frons also shiny above scape, remaining head and mesopleuron punctato-striate, mesonotum and scutellum densely punctured, interspaces shiny. AS 2-12 appr. as long as wide, AS 13 twice as long as basally wide. OOL = ocellar diameter, between lateral ocellus and eye with orbital fovea. Vertex large, distance between hindocellus and hindmargin of vertex as long as length of scape. Pronotal collar with indistinct medial impression. Mesopleuron below and mesosternum without carinae, mesopleuron in front of midcoxa with shiny lamella, twice as long as high, and as high as midocellar diameter. Squamae shiny, apically with deep U-shaped emargination, lateral margin bent upwards. Mucro apically enlarged, apex as large as wide of emargination of squamae (fig. 11). Propodeum dull, with fine reticulation and some striae, laterally in whole length horizontally striated. Tergites I-V dull, finely and densely punctured, punctures half in size compared to punctures of mesosoma. Tergite VI shiny with large punctation. All tergites laterally with keel in whole length. Sternites with indistinct and fine punctation, shiny, with a few erect pale setae. Lower half of face covered with short silver pubescence, remaining body with sparse pubescence.  
G e o g r a f i c d i s t r i b u t i o n: Alicancte province in southern Spain.  
E t y m o l o g y: The species is named in honour to the late Heinrich Wolf, a leading expert of Pompilidae, who collected the holotype.
description: Published as part of Schmid, Christian, 2021, Four new species of Belomicrus A. COSTA, 1867 (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) from Morocco and Southern Spain, pp. 1257-1266 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on pages 1263-1264, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038972