A taxonomic review of the Indian species of the genus Eumenes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) Author Sureshan, Pavittu M. text Zootaxa 2017 2017-05-05 4317 3 469 498 journal article 32205 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.3 5d5d90e2-75db-46bd-b979-7c2dfaab10dc 1175-5326 884738 0D977C9B-2B9C-46E7-B154-E795B7Ff5B01 13. Eumenes punctatus de Saussure, 1852 (FigS 69–72) Eumenes punctata de Saussure, 1852 : 37 , ♀, ♂—“La Chine” (BMNH); Smith, 1857 : 24 (cat.); Dalla Torre, 1894 : 31 (cat.);? Bingham, 1897 : 335 (key), 339, fig. 95 (Kumaun; Sikkim; Burma; Tenasserim); Rothney, 1903 : 106 (Bengal); Dalla Torre, 1904 : 24 (cat.); Wickwar, 1908 : 118 (Ceylon); Dover & Rao, 1922 : 237 ( punctatus ; Sikkim, common); Bequaert: 161 ( punctatus ; holotype is ♀); Liu, 1936 : 100 (cat.); Giordani Soika, 1941 : 142 , fig. 1 (7), 2 (5) (= architectus sensu Yasumatsu 1938 [recte 1936]; in subgenus Eumenes ; China); van der Vecht & Fischer, 1972 : 132 (cat.); Giordani Soika, 1976 : 293 ; Yamane, 1987 : 61 (Korea); Giordani Soika, 1982 : 41 ; Yamane, 1990 : 150 ; Kurzenko, 1995 : 321 ; Kim & Yoon, 1996 : 201 ; Kim & Yamane, 2001 : 143 (key), 150, figs. 54-60, 69 (syn.: E. formosensis nigrior ; Russia; Korea; Japan); Srinivasan & Girish Kumar, 2010 : 1318 , image 8 ( punctatus ; India: Arunachal Pradesh); Zhou et al. , 2012 : 468 ( punctatus ; key); Yoon & Kim, 2014 : 235 , fig. 2B ( punctatus ; syn.: E. asioboreus Kim & Yamane ); 238 (key); Siddiqui et al, 2015 : 505 (Pakistan: Punjab); Buyanjargal et al, 2016 : 22 (Mongolia). Eumenes coarctatus punctatus ; Dover, 1925 : 292 ; Dover, 1929 : 43 (Singapore; Sarawak); Dover, 1931 : 252 (Malaya). Eumenes architectus ; Yasumatsu, 1936 : 1 , 10, pl. 1 fig. 1; Kim, 1970 : 547 . Misidentification. Eumenes pomiformis ; Kim, 1980 : 107 , pl. 15. Misidentification. Eumenes coronatus ; Kurzenko, 1995 : 321 [ partim ]; Kim & Yoon, 1996 : 201 . Eumenes formosensis nigrior Giordani Soika, 1973b : 126 , ♂, ♀—“ China: Suifu, Szechuan” (USNM); Kim & Yamane, 2001 : 139 , 150 (syn. of E. punctatus ). Eumenes nigrior ; Giordani Soika, 1982 : 41 . Eumenes punctatus nigrior ; Giordani Soika, 1986a : 158 (China). Eumenes asioboreus Kim & Yamane, 2001 : 139 , 143 (key), 152, figs. 61-62, 70, ♀, ♂—“Campus of Yeongnam Univ., Kyeongsan, Korea” (holotype ♀ KEI; also from numerous other localities; and Russia.— Yoon & Kim, 2014 : 232 , 235, fig. 2A (syn. of E. punctatus de Saussure ). Diagnosis . ♂ . Punctation of T2 relatively coarse and not very dense (Fig. 72); T2, in profile (Fig. 71), only slightly Swollen in middle, weakly impreSSed preapically, itS apical margin Slightly reflected; T2 longer than wide in dorSal View, with hairS Very Short, mUch Shorter than baSal hairS of T1; tegUla withoUt emargination at lateral margin; T1 pear-Shaped, dilated poSterior part with almoSt parallel SideS in dorSal View; temple with hairS; pronotUm with UninterrUpted broad yellow tranSVerSe band (Fig. 70); Ventral Side of Scape yellow (Fig. 69); apical margin of T3- T4 with yellow markS. Colour description . ♂ . Body black with broad yellow and few brown to yellowiSh brown markingS. Yellow: apical half of mandible; clypeUS; mark on interantennal Space toUching eye; Scape Ventrally; narrow mark on temple; broad band on pronotUm; Spot on meSepiSternUm; baSal band on metanotUm; band on either Side of propodeUm; pair of roUnd SpotS on either Side of T1 at middle and narrow apical band, emarginate at middle; pair of large tranSVerSe mark at SUb baSe of T2 and broad apical band, emarginate at middle and Sharply narrowed towardS SideS; broad apical band on S2, Sharply narrowed towardS SideS; T3–T6 & S3–S6 with almoSt waVy apical bandS. LegS yellow except all coxa, all trochanterS, baSal half of fore and mid femora and hind femora almoSt entirely black. Brown to yellowiSh brown: Ventral Side of antennal flagellUm; tegUla; parategUla; propodeal ValVUla; pair of browniSh markS in the apical yellow band of T1. WingS almoSt hyaline with faint infUmation. HairS SilVery white. Body length : 10 mm . Material examined. INDIA : Meghalaya , Ri Bhoi diStrict , Barapani , 1 ♂ , 20.iV.1979 , Coll. J.K. Jonathan & Party , ZSIK Regd. NoS. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8354. Distribution. RUSSia (from SoUthern EUropean RUSSia to the Far EaSt); China : Hebei , KiangSU, SichUan ; Mongolia ; PakiStan ; India : ArUnachal PradeSh , * Meghalaya , Sikkim , Uttarakhand , WeSt Bengal ; Sri Lanka ; Korea ; Japan : TSUShima ISlandS. Remarks. We StUdied a hUge collection of Eumenes SpecimenS for thiS paper from all oVer India , bUt foUnd only a Single Specimen of thiS SpecieS from Meghalaya ( India ). We therefore conclUde that it iS not a common SpecieS in India . There are SeVeral referenceS cited with Indian recordS for thiS SpecieS inclUding SriniVaSan & GiriSh KUmar (2010) , bUt we think it likely that at leaSt Some of them may be miSidentificationS.