Parancistrocerus assamensis (Meade- Waldo, 1910 ), Giordani

P. Girish Kumar, J. M. Carpenter & P. M. Sureshan, 2016, A taxonomic review of the genus Parancistrocerus Bequaert (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from the Indian subcontinent with the description of three new species, Halteres 7 (1), pp. 36-156 : 140

2. Parancistrocerus assamensis (Meade- Waldo, 1910)

Odynerus assamensis Meade-Waldo, 1910: 103, male, female (in subgenus Ancistrocerus), “Shillong, Assam [= Shillong, Meghalaya]” (BMNH).

Ancistrocerus assamensis; Giordani Soika, 1941: 235 (in subgenus Ancistrocerus; Burma, Carin Cheba).

Parancistrocerus assamensis; Giordani Soika, 1994: 155 (key), 171 (Nepal; Vietnam); Gusenleitner, 2000: 940, fig. 1 (Laos); Gusenleitner, 2007: 99 (compared to P. acclivus Gusenleitner); Gusenleitner, 2011: 1358, fig. 7 (Laos); Gusenleitner, 2012: 1045 (compared to P. insolitus Gusenleitner).

Diagnosis: Female: T2 reflexed at apex, which is preceded by narrow preapical groove; S2 strongly and sharply lowered at base, then nearly flat or even slightly depressed; clypeus about as long as wide, emarginate at apex, with apical teeth shortly carinate.

Colour description: Body black with yellow and red markings. Yellow markings: spot at base and two small spots at apex of clypeus; small spot on lower frons above interantennal space. Red markings: ventral side of scape; anterior margin of pronotum; tegulae; large ovate spot on mesopleuron; metanotum; apical band on T1, T2 and S2; fore and mid tibiae. Wings clear hyaline, fuscous along costa.

Male: Clypeus about as long as wide, more closely emarginate at apex than in female, almost regularly convex; apical antennal article of male weakly arched, gradually narrowed from base to apex, and reaches to base of 11th article.

Length (H+M+T1+T2): Female & Male, 6-6.5 mm.

Distribution: India: Meghalaya; Myanmar; Laos; Vietnam.

Nepal;

Remarks: No specimens were available for our studies, hence the description was taken from Meade-Waldo (1910) and Giordani Soika (1941, 1994).