Antepipona frontalis Giordani Soika, 1982, 1981
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.5.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4499220 |
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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.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History |
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Antepipona frontalis Giordani Soika, 1982
Kumar, Girish P., Carpenter, James M. & Sureshan, Pavittu M. 2016 |
Antepipona frontalis
Gusenleitner 2006: 690 |
Lambert 2004: 554 |
Giordani 1982: 207 |