Entomognathus brevis (VANDER LINDEN, 1829)

Entomognathus brevis (VANDER LINDEN, 1829) View in CoL ( fig. 4 View Figs 1-6 )

Crabro brevis VANDER LINDEN, 1829: 72 View in CoL , ♀, ♁. Syntypes: Belgium: Bruxelles and Italy: Bologna

(Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belgique, Bruxelles). M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: ♁ 16.4.2015 80 km NE Agadir, Talmakant, 30.834N 8.956W

(CSE); ♀ 24.4.2020 Sidi Slimane, 34.388N 5.914W ( CSE) GoogleMaps .

R e m a r k Entomognathus brevis was already mentioned for the fauna of Morocco by some authors (see PULAWSKI, 2024), but it seems to be very rare. We could only examine two specimens. The specimens from Morocco differ distinctly by colour pattern from the European population ( fig. 4 View Figs 1-6 ). Morphology is similar in all details. Therefore, there is no reason to see two species here. The first genetic barcoding (with the CO1 gene) of the Moroccan specimens results in a separate clade compared to examined specimens from Germany, which however is closely related with European species (SCHMID- EGGER et al. 2018). These results therefore do not justify a separate species status. SCHMID- EGGER et al. (2018) found 4.1% intraspecific distance in the species with a separate BIN of single moroccan specimens, but a second barcode of another specimen from Morocco even shifts the result and only gives a common clade with the European specimens with a minimal gap in between (Schmid-Egger, unpubl.).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Color pattern of male and female from Morocco: Black, with the following parts yellow: AS 1 (scape), tibiae, tarsi (the latter dark yellow), apical half of fore- and midfemora, apex of hindfemur, pronotum and pronotal lobe, scutellum, metanotum. European and Asian specimens have usually mesosoma all black except pronotal lobe and tegula, AS 1 is only yellow below, femora are black and tibiae partly black ( fig. 4 View Figs 1-6 ).