Aporinellus completus Banks 1917

Transcont. in south. Canada and U. S., s. in Mexico to Chiapas at higher altitudes.

Nests in soil.

Aporinellus completus Banks
(also transcontinental in U.S.)
Distribution. — Transcontinental in southern Canada and the United States; also ranging south to southern Mexico, but in central and southern Mexico mainly at moderate to fairly high altitudes (5000-7500 feet). (Map 76.)
Mexican specimens examined. — 33 2 ? , 32 8 8 . Baja California: 1 8, 220 km. S Tijuana, 9 Sept. 1955 (FXW) [CAS]. Coahuila: 1 2,1 8 , 23 mi. N Saltillo, 11 Aug. 1959 (LS & AM) [UCD]. Durango: 1 2, 8 mi. S Canutillo, 9 Aug. 1951 (HEE) [MCZ]; 1 2,3 8 8, Nombre de Dios, 6 Aug. 1951 (HEE, PDH) [MCZ, CIS]; 1 2 , 5 mi. W Durango, 14 May 1962 (FDP) [UCD]. Zacatecas: 4 2 2,5 8 8 , 15 km. E Sombrerete, 28-31 July 1951 (HEE, PDH) [MCZ, CIS]. Jalisco: 2 2 2, Guadalajara, 12 July 1959, 5000 feet (HEE) [CU]. Guanajuato: 1 8 , Yuriria, 6500 feet, 7 Aug. 1962 (HEE) [MCZ]. Queretaro: 1 2, Palmillas, 8 Aug. 1962 (HEE) [MCZ]. Hidalgo: 1 2, Zimapan, 11 June 1951 (HEE) [MCZ]; 1 2 , 4 mi. W Pachuca, 7900 feet, June [KU]. Mexico: 3 2 2,7 88, Teotihuacan Pyramids, 7500 feet, April, June, July (HEE) [CU, MCZ]; 3 2 2,2 88, Valle de Bravo, 6500 feet, 3 Aug. 1962 (HEE) [MCZ]. Puebla: 1 2, Tehuacan, 23 June 1951 (HEE) [MCZ]. Morelos: 1 2, 30-40 km. NE Cuer
navaca, 7-8000 feet, 31 July 1962 (HEE) [MCZ]; 9 2 2 , 10 $ S , Cuernavaca & vie, 6000-7500 feet, AprilJune 1959 (HEE) [CU, MCZ]. Chiapas: 1 2,1 8, Nachic, 8000 feet, 27 April 1959 (HEE) [CU]; 2 2 2 , San Cristobal las Casas, 28 April 1959 (HEE) [CU, MCZ]; 1 8 , 8 mi. W Navenchauc, 1 April 1953 (RCB & EIS)

Aporinellus completus Banks
Aporinellus completus Banks, 1917, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 61: 97 [Type: 2, Washington: Lone Tree, Yakima River, 30 June 1882 (MCZ, no. 10, 004)]. — Bequaert, 1919, Psyche, 26: 118, 121. — Evans, 1951, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 77: 292-295. — Evans, 1957, Pan-Pac. Ent., 33: 186.
Female. — Length 5-8 mm. Color of body, wings, and pubescence as described for medianus; all Mexican specimens seen fully patterned with pale pubescence, the abdomen banded. Head distinctly broader than high, TFD 1.15-1.20 X VFD, the top of the head weakly rounded, the vertex nearly straight between the eye tops. Clypeus a transverse band approximately 3 X as wide as high. MID .56-.62 X TFD; UID .76-.90 X LID; POL:OOL about as 5:4. Antennae slender, third segment equal to from .70-. 88 X UID. Propodeal processes small, acute or narrowly rounded. Front basitarsus with three comb-spines, the apical one about as long as the second tarsal segment. Fore wing with either two or three SMCs, the second (or 2nd plus 3rd when both are present) 2.0-2.5 X as wide as high.
Male. — Length 3.5-7.0 mm. Color of body, wings, and pubescence as in basalis, the apical tergite without a white spot or pale pubescence. Front angle of ocellar triangle a right angle or slightly less. Third antennal segment about twice as long as thick, slightly shorter than fourth segment. SGP narrow, its median line strongly elevated, the apex more acute than in other members of the genus and the margin provided with stout setae. Genitalia with the parameres long, slightly curved, slender and attenuate; digiti capitate, disc with only a few small, simple setae; aedoeagus and parapenial lobes of moderate breadth (see fig. 198 in Evans, 151). Map 76