Corresponding author: Cecilia Waichert (
Academic editor: Michael Engel
Two new species are added to the rare pompilid genus
The spider wasps (
The Neotropical genus
Abbreviations used in the descriptions are the same as those used by , the facial distance , the length of third antennal segment , the middle interocular distance , the ocellocular length , the postocellar length , the transfacial distance , the upper interocular distance , the width of third antennal segment , width of clypeus, measured from the widest points , highest length of clypeus height of eye, measured in frontal view
The males described here were collected as part of the project “N.E.S.H. – Nucleus of Excellence in Systematics of
Material examined is deposited in Coleção Entomológica da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil and Zoological Museum University of Copenhagen (ZMUC), Copenhagen, Denmark, as indicated.
♂ (
Male holotype of
2♂: BRAZIL: E[spírito] S[anto], Laranja da Terra, Joatuba, Fazenda Betzel,
This species can be recognized by the following unique combination of characters: the integument is black with scale-like setae reflecting greenish metallic (
Body length 2.00 cm; fore wing 1.82 cm; maximum wing width 0. 57 cm.
Male genitalia, paratype of
No significant morphological variation was observed.
The specific epithet refers to the type locality.
Males of
♀ (
Female holotype of
This species can be recognized by the following unique combination of characters: the integument is black, with scale-like setae reflecting metallic bluish-green (
Body length 2.81 cm; fore wing 2.00 cm; maximum wing width 0.63 cm.
The specific epithet was taken from Greek,
This species can be distinguished from
1 | Wings yellow, slightly darkened at the base; fore wing with pale brown vein; head with vertex weakly prolonged posteriorly; eyes not convergent on vertex | |
– | Wings darkened, with spots in pale brown ( |
1 | Wings pale brown near base, darkened apically; large whitish spots on inner margin of eyes, clypeus and metasoma | |
– | Wings black with purplish reflections ( |
We were unable to associate the sexes of the newly described species. Unfortunately, the type of
We are grateful to Dr. Celso Azevedo and N.E.S.H program for supporting the trip to study the UFES collection through the grant FAPES/CNPq #52263010/2011; to the ZMUC collection for loaning specimens; to Dr. Felipe Vivallo for sharing information about the type of