A taxonomic review of the genus Parancistrocerus Bequaert (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from the Indian subcontinent with the description of three new species
Author
P. Girish Kumar
Author
J. M. Carpenter
Author
P. M. Sureshan
text
Halteres
2016
7
1
36
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.192283
c1f56f9c-98ae-4dd9-9990-e87d4ce20c4a
2348-7372
192283
6a.
Parancistrocerus incorruptus demens
Giordani Soika, 1972
Parancistrocerus incorruptus demens
Giordani Soika, 1972
: 102
, fig. 2, male, “
Sikkim
” (ZMB);
Giordani Soika, 1994
: 155 (key), 165.
Diagnosis
:
Male:
Clypeus slightly wider than long, its apex slightly emarginate, width of clypeal apex equal to about 1/3 of maximum width of clypeus; antennae (see Fig. 2 of
Giordani Soika, 1972
: 102) elongate, article III-X longer than wide, article XI 1.5x as long as wide; apical article very long and slender, about 5x as long as wide at base, slightly arched and very little narrower towards apex, which reaches base of 11th article; first tarsal segment of mid leg normal, cylindrical with uniform thickness.
Colour description
:
Body black with yellow markings. Yellow markings: mandible; clypeus; most part of scape; spot on interantennal space; ocular sinus; band on metanotum; front face of fore and mid coxa; apex of femurs and outer face of fore and mid tibiae; narrow and regular apical band on T1; narrow and wider apical band on T2. Wings very darkened, especially along costa and at apex.
Length
(H+M+T1+T2): 8.5-9 mm.
Distribution
: India: Sikkim.
Remarks
: No specimens were available for our studies, hence the description was taken from
Giordani Soika (1972)
.