Bembecinus bamensis, Schmid, 2024

Schmid, Christian, 2024, Description of nine species of the genus Bembecinus A. COSTA, 1859 and revision of the B. acanthomerus species group (Hymenoptera, Spheciformes), Linzer biologische Beiträge 56 (1), pp. 313-336 : 317

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681733
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E70FF62E-FFF0-FFCC-FF34-CD2CFDAAF9E8
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Bembecinus bamensis
status	nov. sp.

Treatment

Bembecinus bamensis SCHMID- EGGER nov. sp. (figs 11-15)

Holotype: IRAN ♁, 10.v.2019 Bam 4 km E, 29.1162 N 58.4294 E (leg. & coll. CSE) GoogleMaps . Paratype: IRAN: 6♁♁ 5♀♀, same date als holotype (leg. & coll. CSE; Liebig) ; 5♁♁, 13.v.2019 Bam 40 km NW 29.3970 N 57.8506 E (leg. & coll. Jacobs, Liebig, CSE) GoogleMaps ; 2♀♀, 12.v.2019 Jiroft 28.6847 N 57.7123 E (leg. & coll. CSE) GoogleMaps . TURKMENISTAN 2♁♁, 23.vii.90 Kushka , Morgunovka 35.273 N 62.324 E (leg. Lelei) GoogleMaps ; 1♀, 20.v.1976 Okrug Tashkari , leg. Kurzenko (handwritten russian labels, location could not be identified), (coll. OLL) .

D i a g n o s i s For recognition see key.

D e s c r i p t i o n m a l e: Body length 9.5 mm. Color: Black, with the following parts pale yellow: labrum, clypeus, space above clypeus, inner eye margin, scape and flagellomeres ventrally, narrow band on pronotum, pronotal lobe, band on mesoscutum laterally, small spots on scutellum laterally, band on metanotum, narrow and double indented bands on T 1-6, narrow triangluar spots on S2-5, medially connected by a thin band, lateral spots on S6, ventral bands on femora, tibiae (inner side black), tarsi. Morphology: Spine of inner hindfemur 0,8x-1x as long as hindocellar diameter. Hindfemur see fig. 13, T 7 see fig. 12.

D e s c r i p t i o n f e m a l e: Body length 8.0- 9.5 mm. Color: Black, with the following parts lemmon yellow: labrum, clypeus, space above clypeus, inner eye margin, scape and flagellomeres ventrally, narrow band on pronotum, pronotal lobe, band on mesoscutum laterally, large triangular spots on scutellum laterally, which are connected in the middle, band on metanotum, narrow and double indented bands on T 1-5, large spot on T 6, lateral spots on S2-5 (large on S2), in first tergites medially connected by a thin band. Coxae yellow and black, trochanters and femora reddish, femora apically and ventrally yellow. Tibiae and tarsi yellow. Face see fig. 15.

E t y m o l o g y: The species is named after Bam, the type location and a town in southern Iran.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Iran, Turkmenistan.