Review of Indian Dasyproctus Lepeletier & Brullé 1835 (Hymenoptera Crabronidae) with description of four new species 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 & Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode- 673001, Kerala, Affiliated to University of Calicut. sant @ mccclt. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4999 - 1971 binoy_doz@uoc.ac.in Author Kumar, P. Girish Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673006, India. Author Santhosh, S. 0000-0002-4999-1971 Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode- 673001, Kerala, Affiliated to University of Calicut. sant @ mccclt. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4999 - 1971 sant@mccclt.ac.in text Zootaxa 2021 2021-06-25 4991 3 467 498 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4991.3.3 1175-5326 5042450 6C348968-F960-49B6-A222-9928AD05763B 11. Dasyproctus pentheri Leclercq 1956 Dasyproctus pentheri Leclercq 1956: 160 . ♂ corrected: ♀ Leclercq, 1957: 55 . Diagnosis. (based on the original description, as no specimen was available for study). Female . Body length 8 mm . Body black; punctation of head and mesosoma similar, moderate, with regular well-spaced pits; frons with distinct longitudinal groove reinforced with short carina, disappearing before anterior ocellus; clypeus quadridentate with median indentation formed from overhanging prolongation of median carina ( c.f. Fig. 24 of Leclercq (1958: 47) ; POD distinctly shorter than OOD; tibiae mostly brownish or blackish-brown ventrally; Gt 1 finely punctured; propodeum with fine rugulose enclosure, interstices microsculptured. Male . Clypeus with distinct longitudinal carina, apically truncated; frons with distinct IOC followed by broad depression; mandible brownish black; Gt 1 sturdy; Gt 2 impunctate; Gt 2 –Gt 4 bimaculate, spots of Gt 2 smaller than patches on following terga; Gt 5 –Gt 6 with wide yellow band; frons with scattered punctation, interstices smooth; punctation on mesosoma fine, moderately dense; pronotum without rugae on anterior part. Distribution. India : Tamil Nadu . Elsewhere : Indonesia ; Malaysia ; Philippines ; Sri Lanka ; Thailand ( Pulawski 2021 ).