Antepipona haryana Gusenleitner, 1996

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 : 517

11. Antepipona haryana Gusenleitner, 1996

Antepipona haryana Gusenleitner 1996: 39 , 44, fig 5, ♀, holotype, “ India, Haryana , Badkhal Lake , 22.x.1978 ” ( UMHU).

Diagnosis. ♀. This species close to A. intricata (Smith) in size and colour, but front densely punctured and humeri rounded. Clypeus as wide as long, roughly punctured; front, vertex and temple (later sometimes less dense) coarsely and densely punctured, interspaces less than diameter of punctures; anterior face of pronotum with leather–like sculpture, only sides coarsely punctured; posterior surface of propodeum without transverse upper carina; base of S2 bent flat convex in profile view, not bent steeper for basal furrow.

Colour. Body brownish red with yellow and black markings. Yellow markings: Clypeus except lateral sides; weak stripe on inner rim of eye from clypeus to ocular sinus; weak spot at middle of pronotum; outer sides of tegulae; parategulae; large spot on propodeum; narrow, laterally abbreviated apical band on T1; broad apical band on T2, connected with basal spot through laterally; broad apical band on T3, T4 & S2; sinuate apical band on S3; legs with few black markings. Black: around ocellus; marks on mesopleuron and legs; stripe before yellow bands on T2–T4; base of T4. Wings yellowish hyaline, fore wing with obscured brown mark at apex of radial cell.

Size (H+M+T1+T2). 11 mm.

Distribution. India: Haryana .

Remarks. No material was available for our studies; hence the description was taken from Gusenleitner (1996).