Pompilinae Latreille 1805
Creators: name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Rodriguez, Juanita
name: Von Dohlen, Carol D.
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae

description: Key to the Pompilinae of the Dominican Republic  Females  
1 Pronotum with collar not well differentiated from disc; streptaulus absent medially and collar on nearly same plane as disc (Fig. 8A), or if on lower plane streptaulus absent altogether; pronotum longer than mesonotum (Fig. 8A); eyes sometimes wholly covered with short setae.......................................................................... 2  
- Pronotum with collar separated from disc by complete streptaulus; disc sloping upward strongly from collar; pronotum shorter than mesonotum along midline, or at least not notably longer (Fig. 8B); eyes never setose........................... 5  
 2 Fore wing with three radial sectors; front femora not swollen (Fig. 8A); integument black with bluish tomentum (Psorthaspis Banks)............................................................................................. 3   
 - Fore wing with two radial sectors; front femora usually swollen; integument black with red markings (Fig. 8C) (Drepanaporus Bradley)........................................................................................... 4   
 3 Fore wing translucent, with a broad, dark maculation covering the first radial 2 cell............ Psorthaspis naomi (Smith)   
 - Fore wing uniformly dark.................................................... Psorthaspis hispaniolae Bradley   
 4 Eyes setose; 2m-cu vein of fore wing interstitial or slightly distal 2r-m vein (Fig. 2H) … Drepanaporus antillarum (Bradley)   
 - Eyes with or without vestigial setae; 2m-cu vein of fore wing not interstitial with 2r-m vein (Fig. 2C).............................................................................................. Drepanaporus collaris (Cresson)   
5 Postnotum arcuately broadened on each side of median line, then constricted again opposite to propodeal spiracles (Fig. 8D)..................................................................................................... 6  
- Postnotum transverse band with nearly parallel margins, or broadened at midline (Fig. 8G)........................... 7  
 6 Metasomal tergum l, and usually parts of propodeum and mesosoma, bearing scale-like pubescence (Fig. 8E); integument black on mesosoma and metasoma........................................ Episyron conterminus cressoni (Dewitz)   
 - Body without scale-like pubescence; integument black with yellow markings on mesosoma, and dark brown with yellow stripes on metasoma....................................................... Poecilopompilus mixtus (Fabricius)   
 7 2m-cu vein of fore wing arising on cubital vein much more than half distance from base of second medial cell to outer wing margin (Fig. 2E); apical tergum not densely bristly; front with blunt tubercle between and slightly above antennal sockets (Fig. 1I).............................................................. Tachypompilus ferrugineus bicolor (Banks)   
 - 2m-cu vein of fore wing arising on cubital vein about half or somewhat less than half distance from base of medial cell to outer wing margin (Fig. 2D), or if somewhat more than half (some Anoplius) then apical tergum densely bristly; front without blunt tubercle............................................................................................ 8   
 8 Propodeum bearing distinct, more or less conical processes posterolaterally (Fig. 8F); body patterned with silvery and darker pubescence................................................................... Aporinellus medianus Banks   
 - Propodeum not produced posterolaterally into sharp, conical processes; body not patterned with silvery and darker pubescence (Anoplius Dufour).................................................................................... 9   
9 Integument black without bluish pubescence; metasoma red.................................................. 10  
- Integument black with bluish pubescence; metasoma black................................................... 11  
 10 1cu-a vein of fore wing meeting M+Cu vein slightly beyond origin of M vein (Fig. 2G)......... Anoplius hispaniolae Evans   
 - 1cu-a vein of fore wing meeting M+Cu vein at origin of M vein (Fig. 2F)....... Anoplius americanus ambiguus (Dahlbom)   
 11 Front basitarsus weakly spined, spines in upper row minute (Fig. 8H)....................... Anoplius fulgidus (Cresson)   
 - Front basitarsus bearing four comb-spines slightly longer than width of tarsus at their base (Fig. 8I).................................................................................... Anoplius amethystinus amethystinus (Fabricius)
description: Published as part of Waichert, Cecilia, Rodriguez, Juanita, Von Dohlen, Carol D. & Pitts, James P., 2012, Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic, pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 3353 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5251730