Ageniella Banks 1912
Creators: name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Colombo, Wesley Dondoni
name: Von Dohlen, Carol D.
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Ageniella

description: Key to the subgenera of Ageniella from Brazil (females)
1 Large species (~ 110 mm – ~ 260 mm); long setae present on the integument, abundant on the propodeum; wing fully or partially darkened; wing venation long, 3Rs cell almost touching the apex of the forewing; usually with a prominence on the lower part of the mesopleurum; hind tibia with scale-like spines........................................ Alasagenia Banks
- Median to small size species (until ~ 110 mm); long setae on integument present or absent; wing usually hyaline or subhyaline; wing venation short, 3Rs cell about its length, or more, distant from the apex of the forewing; never with a prominence on lower part of mesopleurum; hind tibia with or without scale-like spines........................................... 2
2 Head and mesosoma black, metasoma rufous; pronotum elongate and somewhat flat, in profile view, length from the collar to the posterior margin of pronotum larger than its height; hind leg with inner brush distally interrupted........................................................................................ Nemagenia Banks [A. longula (Cresson)]
- Coloration of integument various; pronotum never elongate, in profile view, length from the collar to the posterior margin of pronotum as long as its height; hind leg usually with inner brush distally continued................................. 3
3 Frons in lateral view somewhat angulate, with swellings above or between the antennal insertion (A. innuba lacks distinct swellings)........................................................................................... 4
- Frons in lateral view more or less gently rounded, without swellings above the antennal insertion...................... 5
4 Frons with two large swellings; head black, covered with scale-like setae, except the swellings and the clypeus, which have a polished integument; forewing hyaline with one dark band; mesosoma red, metasoma black...................................................................................... Neotumagenia Fernández [A. amazonica Fernández]
- Frons with or without swellings, but never as large as described previously; head never covered by scale-like setae; forewing hyaline without dark band; integument various, with pale spots................................... Cyrtagenia Evans
5 Hind tibia serrate in profile, spines scale-like; propodeum somewhat flat in profile view and without abundant erect setae.......................................................................................... Priophanes Banks
- Hind tibia not serrate in profile, if spines are present, then never scale-like; propodeum rounded in profile view and with abundant erect setae......................................................................... Ameragenia Banks
description: Published as part of Waichert, Cecilia, Colombo, Wesley Dondoni, Von Dohlen, Carol D. & Pitts, James P., 2018, Taxonomic contributions to Ageniella Banks, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Brazil, pp. 133-153 in Zootaxa 4403 (1) on page 136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/1212065