Cerceris odontophora Schletterer 1887
Creators: name: Malash, Alyaa A.
name: Edmardash, Yusuf A.
name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Cerceris
Cerceris odontophora

description: Cerceris odontophora Schletterer, 1887
Figs 14 (A–D), 15(A, B)
Cerceris odontophora Schletterer, 1887: 398, ♀, ♂; Syntypes: Greece.
Brief description. Female: Body length: 7.0-8.0 mm. dark ferruginous, with yellowish white (Fig. 14A, C); antenna dark ferruginous (Fig. 14C); mandible dark ferruginous, pale at base (Fig. 14C); tegula yellowish white with black spot (Fig. 14A); legs with femora (except black streaks dorsally), tibiae and tarsi yellowish white (Fig. 14A); T 3 with a medially interrupted posterior band, extended to lateral side of tergum (Fig. 14A), almost all of T 5 yellowish white (except at base) (Fig. 14A); clypeus with middle lobe convex, with two preapical median teeth or process, sometimes hardly seen from punctures, free margin with two small lateral teeth surrounding minute ones in the middle (Fig. 14C); S 5 with apical denticles, with two medial lobes with incision between (Fig. 15B); downwardly curved posterior margin of S 6 slightly indented or rounded medially; propodeal enclosure smooth and shiny (Fig. 14D), rarely with arched longitudinal of transverse wrinkling at base; pygidial plate oval, narrowly rounded at apex, finely rugose, with some scattered fine whitish setae at base.
Male (Fig. 14B): Smaller in size; with more yellowish white than in female, T 5 reddish; S 6 with inconspicuous teeth.
Colour variation: In some of the Turkish specimens, the black of some body parts (scutellum, propodeum and T 1-3) is replaced by red in females; in males, posterior margin of T 1 and T 2 edged with rusty red (Schmidt 2000).
Material examined: Bulgaria: A photograph from the CAS: 1♀, Varna, 4.viii.1956, W.J. Pulawski collector; Greece: A photograph from the CAS: 1♂, Island of Crete: Iraklion, 3.vi.1976, Cambridge Morea Expedition.
Distribution: PA: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Greece, Iran, Israel / Palestine, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey.
Comments. The female of Cerceris odontophora is similar to C. bupresticida except for the following: the downwardly curved posterior edge of S 5 without lateral teeth, slightly indented or rounded medially (S 5 trilobed, with lateral teeth, and more or less pointed denticles medially in C. bupresticida); propodeal enclosure smooth and shiny (Fig. 14D), rarely with arched longitudinal or transverse wrinkles at base (propodeal enclosure conspicuously longitudinally ridged at basal half, smooth posteriorly in C.bupresticida (Fig.5B)or sometimes entirely longitudinally ridged (Fig. 5B)); pale parts of body yellowish white and more reduced (Fig. 14A, B) (pale parts clearly yellow in C. bupresticida and extensive (Fig. 5 A-D)).
description: Published as part of Malash, Alyaa A., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2024, A revision of bupresticida species group of Cerceris Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Philanthinae) of the Western Palearctic region, with the description of Cerceris ammonia, a new species from Egypt, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 5448 (1) on pages 17-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11231152