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

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

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DOI

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

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scientific name

Antepipona frontalis Giordani Soika, 1982
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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.

Giordani Soika, A. (1982 [ 1981 ]) Revisione delle specie orientali del genere Antepipona Sauss. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 32, 205 - 257.

Gusenleitner, J. (2006 a) Uber Aufsammlungen von Faltenwespen in Indien (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 38 (1), 677 - 695.

Lambert, K. (2004) Two new species and a new subspecies of Antepipona Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from India with a key to species. In: Rajmohana, K., Sudheer, K., Kumar, P. G. & Santhosh, S. (Eds.), Perspectives on Biosystematics and Biodiversity, Prof. T. C. Narendran Commemoration Volume. SERSA, Kerala, pp. 553 - 566.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Antepipona