A review of digger wasp genus Harpactus Shuckard, 1837 (Hymenoptera Crabronidae) of the Indian subcontinent, with description of a new species and rediscovery of Harpactus impudens (Nurse, 1903) Author Binoy, C. 0000-0003-4309-5460 Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala- 673635, India. binoy _ doz @ uoc. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4309 - 5460 binoy_doz@uoc.ac.in Author Kumar, P. Girish Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673006, India. Author Monks, Joseph Insect Division, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, U. K. Author Sheikh, Altaf Hussain Government Degree College, Pulwama- 192301, Jammu Kashmir, India. text Zootaxa 2022 2022-09-30 5190 4 531 542 journal article 156945 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.4.3 3654863c-52ca-4854-83e0-72c067e8d94b 1175-5326 7138470 EF6DB822-0DB9-4748-877B-AD7285AA71B7 Harpactus vividus ( Turner, 1917 ) Figures 31–35 Arpactus vividus Turner 1917: 183 . Holotype : ♂ , Pakistan : Punjab , Lahore (NHMUK). Dienoplus vividus (Turner) , new combination by Bohart & Menke 1976: 496 . Harpactus vividus , new combination by Pulawski 1985: 59–60 . Type material ( Images): Holotype ♂ ( Figs 30–33 ), Pakistan “— Punjab , Lahore. Leg. G.R. Dutt , 19.iv.(19)08, B.M. Type Hym. 21.1,497, 1915/323 ( NHMUK ) NHMUK 012859083 —” FIGURES 31–35. Harpactus vividus ( Turner, 1917 ) Holotype ♂ 31, type labels; 32, habitus, lateral view; 33, head, frontal view; 34, habitus, dorsal view; 35, metapostnotum, propodeum and metasoma, dorsal view. Diagnosis (from literature and partly from images). Brown-black with following varyingly coloured parts: pronotum and mesoscutum red-brown; antenna and legs yellow-brown; inner eye margin and clypeus yellow; propodeum entirely black; lateral spot on T2 yellow. Eyes very slightly convergent towards clypeus; head shiny, minutely and sparsely punctate. Mesosoma shiny, with few fine scattered punctures, scutellum with anterior margin crenulate; mesopleuron smooth, sparsely punctate. Propodeal enclosure well defined and coarsely longitudinally striate, remaining propodeum coarsely, irregularly obliquely striate. T1 short and broad, smooth, shiny, immaculate; T2 smooth, finely and sparsely punctate, with oval ivory patch laterally; remaining segments closely and minutely punctate, immaculate. Distribution. Pakistan (Lahore) ( Turner 1917 ).