Gonaporus mirabilis I. Zonstein & Wahis, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zonstein, Irina
name: Wahis, Raymond
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Gonaporus
Gonaporus mirabilis

description: Gonaporus mirabilis I. Zonstein & Wahis, sp. nov.
(Figs 94, 116, 137, 148, 159, 170, 181, 191)
Diagnosis. The female of this species differs from all congeners by the presence of five posterior spines of the tarsal comb on the protarsomere 1 (Fig. 137). The congeners have three, four or six such spines. For more characters, see Table 1.
Description. Female. Body length 7.9–8.7 mm. Structure see Table 1. Coloration: Head mostly black; clypeus mostly orange to orange on apical half and black on basal; mandible mostly yellow, brown-orange on apical 0.4; scape orange to orange ventrally, brown dorsally; pedicel brown; flagellum brown dorsally, yellowish-brown to orange-brown ventrally. Mesosoma mostly black; pronotum mostly black, narrowly orange-brown laterally and posteriorly; tegula yellowish-orange to brown-orange. Legs mostly orange; coxae black basally; tarsi orange basally, brown apically or entirely brown; spurs yellowish basally, blackish apically; spines of tarsal comb orange, darkened apically; other leg spines orange-brown. Metasoma orange. Pygidium orange-brown. Setae: In female from Karachi frons and vertex with short brown setae, clypeus with moderately long relatively stout reddish setae; in other two females frons, vertex and clypeus lacking setae; occiput and propleuron with short fine whitish setae. Protarsomere 1 with 5 long spines posteriorly (Fig. 137) and 2 very short spines anteroventrally.
Male. Body length 7.0 mm. Structure: see Table 2. Subgenital plate and genitalia not examined. Coloration: Head mostly black; clypeus orange apically and medially and black latero-basally; mandible mostly yellowish, orange-brown on apical 0.33; antenna dark brown dorsally and orange-brown ventrally. Mesosoma mostly black; pronotum with orange areas anteriorly and laterally; metapleura orange. Legs: trochanters, coxae, femora and tibiae orange; tarsi brown. Metasoma: Segments 1–3 orange; segment 4 orange basally and black apically; other segments black; T7 with large white spot. Setae: Occiput and propleuron with few fine whitish setae.
Etymology. The specific epithet mirabilis (Latin), meaning "extraordinary", denotes the unique number of tarsal comb setae on the female protarsomere 1.
Material examined. Holotype: ♀, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Suweihan Rd., 9.iv.1988, I. L. Hamer (BMNH). Paratypes: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: N of Ajman, water traps, 5–16.vii.2008, A. van Harten, 1♀ (CRW). PAKISTAN: Karachi, Bombey Presidency, 1910, E. Comber, 1♀ (BMNH). Other material. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: N of Ajman, water traps, 5–16.vii.2008, A. van Harten, 1♂ (CRW).
Distribution. Pakistan, United Arab Emirates (Fig. 216).
Habitat. Judging from the label data, most probably arid areas.
Biology. Unknown.
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 page 486, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234261