Antepipona frontalis Giordani Soika, 1982, 1981

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 : 516

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8C7D1E3C-FEDC-4D75-926B-7AE58E16766C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4499220

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5337E80A-FFAF-1A09-C3AF-FE9BFF54134E

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scientific name

Antepipona frontalis Giordani Soika, 1982
status

 

9. Antepipona frontalis Giordani Soika, 1982 View in CoL

Antepipona frontalis Giordani Soika 1982: 207 View in CoL (key), 255, figs 57–58, Ƌ, ♀, “ Sri Lanka: Ham. Distr., Palatupana Tank ” (holotype, Ƌ, USNM); Lambert 2004: 554 (key); Gusenleitner 2006a: 690 ( India: Kerala).

Diagnosis. Ƌ. Metanotal teeth closer to each other than to lateral metanotal margins; posterior face of propodeum smooth and shiny; S2 regularly convex from base to apex, with longitudinal groove at base; front sub opaque, smoothly punctate, punctures sparse and superficial, almost indistinguishable at middle, ferruginous.

Colour. Body ferruginous with yellow and black markings. Yellow markings: mandible; clypeus; ventral side of scape; front; temple; large and irregular band on anterior margin of pronotum; outer margin of tegula; parategula; large part of scutellum; metanotum; large part of fore and mid femur; all tibiae and tarsi; narrow band at apex, slightly enlarged at middle, on T1; two spots at sides of base of T2; apical bands, greatly enlarged at middle and on sides, on T2 and S2; wide apical bands on T3–T6 & S3–S6. Black markings: radicle of scape; W–shaped inverted mark on ocellar area.

♀. Similar to male except punctures sparser; apical teeth distant from each other about 1,3 of maximum width of clypeus; Yellow band of pronotum interrupted twice and narrow on sides; T5, T6, S5 & S6 and part of T4 & S4 ferruginous.

Size (H+M+T1+T2). Ƌ and ♀, 7.5 mm.

Distribution. India: Kerala, Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka.

Remarks. No material was available for our studies; hence the description was taken from Giordani Soika, 1982.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Antepipona

Loc

Antepipona frontalis Giordani Soika, 1982

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

Antepipona frontalis

Gusenleitner 2006: 690
Lambert 2004: 554
Giordani 1982: 207
1982
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