A taxonomic revision of the hover wasp genus Eustenogaster van der Vecht (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Stenogastrinae)
Author
Saito, Fuki
Author
Kojima, Jun-Ichi
text
Zootaxa
2007
1556
1
30
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.178242
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178242
Eustenogaster fumipennis
Saito
,
sp. nov.
This species is known only from the female and is similar to
E. calyptodoma
, but it can be distinguished from
E. calyptodoma
by the combination of the following characters: body size larger than
E. calyptodoma
; extreme apex of clypeus pointed (
Fig. 26
vs
. truncate in
E. calyptodoma
, Fig. 21); mid-tooth of mandible rounded apically (
Fig. 27
vs
. Fig.
22 in
E. calyptodoma
); frons covered with dense, long hairs; sixth metasomal tergum with sharp spine and wide flat area in front of the spine (
Fig. 28
); bright markings reduced (see below).
Female
. Body length (head + mesosoma + first two terga)
18.5–20 mm
(
holotype
: about
19.5 mm
); forewing length
14.5–15.5 mm
(
holotype
: about 15.0 mm).
Anterior ocellus about 1.2 times larger in width than posterior ocellus (
Fig. 29
); distance between anterior and posterior ocelli shorter than diameter of posterior ocellus; distance between posterior ocelli about equal to their diameter.
First metasomal tergum narrow and long (
7.5–8.5 mm
long), about 6.3 times longer than its maximum height and about 4.8 times longer than the maximum width; second tergum in dorsal view longer than wide (
Fig. 30
).
Color: Body shiny black; bright markings reduced and restricted to the following parts: spot below antennal socket (
Fig. 57
), paired small lateral spot on clypeus (sometimes absent), small spot at posterodorsal corner of pronotum, paired lateral spots on metanotum (sometimes absent), paired posterior spots on propodeum (
Fig. 31
), all yellow; second metasomal tergum with very small, yellow or pale-brown lateral spots. Legs dark brown; fore tibia with variable-sized lateral yellow spot. Wings semihyaline, smoky brown, darker along anterior margin of forewing; veins dark brown.
Male
. Unknown.
Type
material
:
Holotype
female (deposited in
AMNH
) labeled, “Antique: Alojipan, Culasi,
20–xii 1982
, Starr & Godoy, Nest series No. 591” and “GM”.
Paratypes
:
The
Philippines
: Panay Island:
4Ψ (
IUNH
), Alojipan, Culasi, Antique,
16.xii.1982
, CKS, [1Ψ, Nest series No. 553; 1Ψ, Nest series No. 555; 2Ψ, Nest series No. 556].
Distribution
:
Philippines
: Panay.
Etymology
. The specific name
fumipennis
is based on van der Vecht’s manuscript name. This is a compound name formed with a masculine Latin noun,
fumi
(= smoke) and a feminine Latin noun,
pennis
(= feather), to refer to the dark-colored wings of this species.