Gonaporus omanicus Wolf 1990
Creators: name: Zonstein, Irina
name: Wahis, Raymond
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Gonaporus
Gonaporus omanicus

description: Gonaporus omanicus Wolf, 1990
(Figs 10, 95, 106, 117, 138, 149, 160, 171, 182, 192)
Gonaporus omanicus Wolf, 1990: 634 (holotype, ♀: OMAN: Muscat, Ruwi, 2.III.1976, K.M. Guichard [BMNH], examined).
Diagnosis. G. omanicus is most similar to G. ecbatanus, differing from it and from all other congeners by the almost entirely black body coloration (Fig. 10). The shape of the subgenital plate and genitalia are very similar to those of G. ecbatanus. For more characters see Tables 1 and 2.
Redescription. Female. Body length 7.1–9.0 mm. Structure see in Table 1. Coloration (Fig. 10): Head mostly black; inner orbit with narrow orange stripe along eye margin; clypeus mostly black, narrowly orange to blackishbrown apically; mandible mostly yellow to yellowish-orange, brown-orange on apical 0.3; antenna blackish-brown sometimes orange-brown ventrally. Mesosoma mostly black; pronotum mostly black, narrowly brown lateroventrally; tegula blackish-brown. Legs entirely dark brown to mostly brown with coxae narrowly orangebrown apically; femora narrowly orange-brown anteroventral; tibiae narrowly orange-brown basally, pro- and mesotibia also apically. Spur of fore leg yellowish-brown basally, blackish apically; other spurs blackish-brown; spines of tarsal comb brown; other leg spines dark orange-brown. Metasoma mostly blackish-brown; T1–3 dark orange lateroapically, in one female all metasomal segments orange-brown laterally. Setae: Clypeus with moderately long relatively stout reddish setae; occiput and propleuron with long fine whitish setae; procoxa anteriorly with few long fine whitish setae. Protarsomere 1 with 3 long spines posteriorly (Fig. 138) and 1 short to long spine anteroventrally.
Male. Body length 8.1 mm. Structure: see Table 2. Subgenital plate and genitalia similar to G. ecbatanus (examined without being dissected from the specimen). Coloration: Head mostly black; clypeus mostly black, apical 0.33 orange; mandible mostly yellowish-orange, orange-brown on apical 0.33; antenna dark blackish-brown. Mesosoma black. Legs mostly black; coxae, femora and protibia narrowly brown apically; metasoma mostly black; T1–4 brown lateroapically. Pubescence: T6 apically and T7 dorsally with white pubescence. Setae: Occiput and propleuron with quite numerous fine long setae variable from whitish to brownish.
Material examined. Holotype ♀: OMAN: Muscat, Ruwi, 2.iii.1976, K.M. Guichard (BMNH). Paratype: ♂, OMAN: Muscat, Ruwi, 2.iii.1976, K.M. Guichard (BMNH). Other material. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Wadi Maidaq, yellow & white watertraps, 25°18'N 56°07'E, 28-30.xi.2005, A.van Harten, 1♀; idem 1♀ (Leiden, CRW); Wadi Hayl, 25°08'N 56°21'E, 11–19.iii.2009, Shmid-Egger, 1♀(CSE); Sharjah Desert park, light trap, 25°17'N 55°42'E, 20.x–8.xi.2005, A.van Harten, 1♀, (CRW).
Distribution. United Arab Emirates, Oman (Fig. 217).
Habitat. Desert areas, according to the label data.
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 pages 486-487, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234261