Review of potter wasps with a petiolate metasoma excluding so-called " Zethinae " (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) in the Lesser Sunda Islands of the Indonesian Archipelago
Author
Nugroho, Hari
Author
Kojima, Jun-Ichi
Author
Ubaidillah, Rosichon
text
Zootaxa
2013
3608
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.1
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1175-5326
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Labus rufomaculatus
van der Vecht 1963
Labus rufomaculatus
van der Vecht 1963: 8, Ƥ,
holotype
"Pogobina" [on Sumba], [Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel].
Material examined.
No specimen examined.
Distribution.
Indonesia
: Sumba.
Remarks.
Van der Vecht (1963) considered that this species closely related to
L. amoenus
van der Vecht 1935 known from Java, Bangka and South Sumatra. This species can be distinguished from
L. amoenus
by the combination of characters given in
Table 1
.
TABLE 1.
Comparisons of distinguishing characters among
Labus amoenus
van der Vecht,
L. spiniger
de Saussure,
L. vandervechti
Giordani Soika
, and
L. rufomaculatus
van der Vecht.
L. amoenus
L. spiniger
L. vandervechti
L. rufomaculatus
*
Head As high as wide. As high as wide. As high as wide. Higher than wide. Frontal fovea Shallow; longer than wide; Deep, deeper than
L.
Deep; circular; not Deeper; circular; well
not distinctly defined.
vandervechti
; circular. well defined. defined. * For
L. rufomaculatus
, characters are based on van der Vecht (1963).