Antepipona aurantiaca Giordani Soika, 1982

Kumar, Girish P., Carpenter, James M. & Sureshan, Pavittu M., 2016, A taxonomic review of the genus Antepipona de Saussure, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from India, Zootaxa 4150 (5), pp. 501-536 : 503-504

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.5.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4499198

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scientific name

Antepipona aurantiaca Giordani Soika, 1982
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1. Antepipona aurantiaca Giordani Soika, 1982 View in CoL

Antepipona aurantiaca Giordani Soika 1982: 210 View in CoL (key), 243, figs 44–45, ♀, Ƌ, “ India: Raipur, 300 m ” (holotype, Ƌ, RMNH); Lambert 2004: 557 (key); Gusenleitner 2006a: 690 ( India: Tamil Nadu).

Diagnosis. ♀. Similar to A. minutissima and A. siamensis ; but differs from both by following characters: apex of clypeus slightly emarginate, its width 1, 3 × that of maximum width of clypeus; clypeus thickly punctured with punctures larger than those of front; anterior carina of pronotum widely arched at shoulder, absent throughout dorsal surface; posterior face of metanotum convex, with small teeth; propodeum with fully rounded sides; S2 weakly convex at base. Head, mesosoma and propodeum finely and densely punctured, as in A. siamensis ; but side faces of propodeum with thicker and deeper punctures than in A. siamensis . Terga, except last, with punctation fine, dense, interspaces almost always with minor punctures.

Colour. Ferruginous. Yellow markings: mandible; clypeus; front; temple; pronotum entirely; much of mesepisternum; tegulae; parategulae; scutellum; metanotum; two large spots on propodeum; legs, except part of coxa and most of hind femora; band, wide at middle and close to sides, on T1; broad band apical, enlarged at middle and at sides, and two large spots at sides near base on T2; band apical, extended to sides on T3; band apical enlarged at middle and at sides on T4; band apical enlarged at middle and short at sides on T5; almost all of T6; an apical band, relatively narrow, slightly enlarged at middle and at sides on S2; triangular spots on sides of apical margin of S3 and S4. Wings lightly browned.

Ƌ. Clypeus wider than long, slightly emarginated at apex, with large punctures, moderately dense; apical antennal article weakly curved, gradually narrowed from base to apex, reaching to about midpoint of 10th article. Other characters as that of ♀.

Size (H+M+T1+T2). ♀, 6.5– 7 mm; Ƌ, 6 mm.

Material examined. INDIA: Tamil Nadu, Nedungadu, Tanjore , 1Ƌ, 14.v, Coll. P.S. Nathan ( AMNH).

Distribution. India: Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand ; Sri Lanka.

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Antepipona

Loc

Antepipona aurantiaca Giordani Soika, 1982

Kumar, Girish P., Carpenter, James M. & Sureshan, Pavittu M. 2016
2016
Loc

Antepipona aurantiaca

Gusenleitner 2006: 690
Lambert 2004: 557
Giordani 1982: 210
1982
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