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Heterodontonyx wahisi Chavoshi& Rodriguez sp nov
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Holotype

Holotype male from Australia: New South Wales: 5km North Pooncarie; 27.11.1988. N.W.Rodd; (AM-K551514)

Paratypes

Two male paratypes from SA and Qld. ANIC accession numbers TBD

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Figure 12. (a-e) Heterodontonyx wahisi male holotype, (a) dorsal view (b) head, frontal view (c) lateral view, right side (d) subgenital plate (e) genitalia, scale bars: 1mm.

Length 30-35mm; colour black and orange; body heavily covered with black and golden setae; head of a male with face and vertex yellow-orange, except for a black band as wide as ocellar triangle passing through ocelli and reaching compound eyes; pronotum orange; propodeum with two distinct tubercles; second metasomal segment with an apical black band.

Male

Primarily based on the holotype (Figure 12)

Colouration. Head orange yellow except for a narrow area between the eyes and the end of the mandible, which are dark/black; mesosoma black except for tegula and pronotum which are orange; tibiae and tarsi orange, femora black basally, orange at apex; first metasomal segment black, second metasomal segment orange with apical black band, remainder yellow-orange; wings yellow-orange, with apical and basal darkening.

Head. Head almost the same width as length, TFD/FD = 1.02; posterior ocelli as far apart from each other as from the

compound eye, POL: OOL = 1; eyes slightly convergent toward the vertex; frons with the median line reaching median ocellus; apical margin of clypeus slightly convex; clypeus rather long, clypeus length: width = 1.42; labrum on same plain as clypeus moderately exposed beneath; malar space very short, almost non-existent; antenna long but not very slender; first flagellar segment longer than the second.

Mesosoma. Setose; pronotum relatively short, with an obvious median line, its posterior margin angulate; metanotum knobbed; metapostnotum suppressed; propodeum weakly wrinkled across with no obvious median line, tuberculate; the dorsal edge of the hind tibia with spine-bearing scale-like elevations which becomes less prominent towards tarsus; tarsal claws dentate.

Metasoma. Metasoma polished, sparsely punctate, pygidium covered by short, abundant golden setae, metasoma almost the same length of mesosoma.

Genitalia.

Parapenial lobe elongate and slender, broad, 0.75× as long as entire genitalia; length 0.63×paramere length; setae long, thin abundant on the external surface. Aedeagus almost the same length as the parapenial lobes. Paramere length 0.83× total genitalia length; apex rounded; setae long, thick, covering 0.3 of length apically. Sub genital plate, wide, apex rounded, setae abundant apically, long, thin.

Figure 12. (a-e) Heterodontonyx wahisi male holotype, (a) dorsal view (b) head, frontal view (c) lateral view, right side (d) subgenital plate (e) genitalia, scale bars: 1mm.

Etymology

This species is named after the late Raymond Wahis , who, along with his long-standing work on Pompilidae taxonomy, has contributed to the knowledge of Australian Heterodontonyx.

Distribution

This species is known from AUSTRALIA: NSW, SA, and Qld.