Revision of the Afrotropical genus Zetheumenidion Bequaert (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)
Author
Selis, Marco
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Zetheumenidion invertitum
(
GiOrdani SOika, 1944
)
(
Figs. 7
,
12
)
Eumenes invertitus
Giordani Soika 1944: 164
,
♂
(in subgenus
Zetheumenidion
)—“
Africa orientale:
Banno” (MSNVE).
Diagnosis.
Belonging to the group of species with dorsal side of mesosoma forming an even surface from pronotum to propodeum, very narrow and shallow median furrow of propodeum and shagreened outer face of male hind femur, in which is recognized by pronotum and mesoscutum weakly shiny with micropunctate interspaces, interspaces on mesepisternum wide, lateral carinae of propodeum present but subtle, clypeus marked with pale yellow (
Fig. 7B
), male hind femur with barely visible punctures on outer face (
Fig. 7C
).
Material examined.
HOLOTYPE
OF
EUMENES INVERTITUS
:
♂
labeled “
Miss. E. Zavattari
/ Sagan-Omo A.O.I. / Banno /
5-v.1939
//
Eumenes
/
invertitus
n.sp.
/
A. Giordani Soika
det. ’42 // HOLOTYPUS” (
MSNVE
).
ERITREA
:
Abyssinia
, 1912, leg.
R.J. Stordy
,
1♂
(
MSVI
).
Distribution.
Eritrea
*;
Ethiopia
;
Tanzania
(
Giordani Soika 1944
,
1952
;
Gusenleitner 2003
) (
Fig. 13
).