A review of the mud-dauber wasps of genus Sceliphron Klug (Hymenoptera Sphecidae) from India
Author
Anagha, S.
Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673006, India.
Author
Kumar, P. Girish
0000-0003-2121-0165
Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673006, India. & kpgiris @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2121 - 0165
kpgiris@gmail.com
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
Mazumdar, P. C.
Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal- 700053, India.
Author
Sureshan, P. M.
0000-0003-4722-6368
Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673006, India. & pmsuresh 43 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4722 - 6368
pmsuresh43@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-05-10
4969
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61
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journal article
6436
10.11646/zootaxa.4969.1.3
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1.
Sceliphron isaaci
Jha & Farooqi, 1995
Sceliphron isaaci
Jha & Farooqi, 1995: 13
,
♀
,
♂
.
Holotype
:
♀
,
India
:
Andaman Islands
:
Port Blair
:
North Bay
(repository?).
Diagnosis. Female
. Frons with fine longitudinal diverging striation mixed with punctures; clypeus apico-medially incised with lateral incisions (see
Fig. 5
of
Jha & Farooqi (1995: 14))
; pronotal collar notched in middle, transversely finely striate, side punctate; mesoscutum finely striate, transverse anteriorly and oblique posteriorly; scutellum longitudinally striate; metanotum with fine sparse punctuation; propodeal enclosure with longitudinal depression in middle; mesopleuron punctate; petiole yellow.
Male
.
Resembles female in general morphology, clypeus similar as in
pictum
but lobes more pronounced (See
Fig. 4
of
Jha & Farooqi (1995: 14))
; lobes of collar more pronounced with front surface rather densely striate; metanotum narrow, longitudinally and roughly striate; petiole longer than in female.
Distribution
.
India
: Andaman Islands (
Jha & Farooqi 1995
;
Pulawski 2021
).