Harpactopus crudelis, F. Smith, F. Smith, 1856

Odintsev, Yuriy N. Danilov Oleg A. & Kobets, Anastasia S., 2024, A taxonomic study on the genus Prionyx Vander Linden, 1827 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Prionychini). Subgenus Harpactopus F. Smith, 1856, Zootaxa 5551 (2), pp. 263-298 : 266

crudelis species group

Note. The species group name crudelis is used in this paper after Bohart & Menke 1963, 1976 because Harpactopus crudelis F. Smith is the type species of Harpactopus .

Diagnosis. ♂ ♀: labial palpomeres 2–4 usual; arolia present; recurrent vein II of forewing received by submarginal cell III. ♂: placoids on flagellomeres narrow, depressed; S6 entire, without teeth. ♀: clypeus with Ushaped median notch; tarsal rake of foreleg with long, stout, bladelike and some hairlike setae or only with some long, stout, bladelike setae.

Included species: Prionyx crudelis (F. Smith, 1856) , P. indus ( Linnaeus, 1758) , P. judaeus ( de Beaumont, 1968) , P. reymondi ( Roth, 1954) , P. saevus (F. Smith, 1856) , P. subfuscatus ( Dahlbom, 1845) , P. zarudnyi ( Gussakovskij, 1933) .