Paraleptomenes nurseanus montanus Giordani Soika, 1994

Bai, Yue, Carpenter, James M., Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2022, A review of the genus Paraleptomenes Giordani Soika, 1970 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from China, with descriptions of two new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 90, pp. 185-199 : 185

Paraleptomenes nurseanus montanus Giordani Soika, 1994 new record

Figs 29-33

Paraleptomenes nurseanus montanus Giordani Soika, 1994: 123, 124, 125; Kumar, Carpenter and Sharma 2014: 132-133.

Material examined.

1♀, China, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Jinghong City, Lancang River , 21°57'18.09"N, 100°51'36.65"E, 541m, 2008.vii.27, Miao Li (CNU) .

Diagnosis.

Female (Fig. 29 ). Body length 6.4 mm, forewing length 5.5 mm; black, with the following parts yellow: the base of mandible, lateral longitudinal band along clypeus, elliptic interantennal spot, scape ventrally, ocular sinus, a line behind eyes at gena, two anterior interrupted spots of pronotum dorsally, tegula (except brownish red at middle), parategula, two anterior interrupted spots on metanotum, mid coxa ventrally, apices of fore and mid femora, fore and mid tibiae (slightly dark ventrally), hind tibia dorsally, tarsi, apical bands of T1-T2 and S2, and mandible mostly; fore wing with an apical dark spot. Clypeus flat in the middle part, without lateral longitudinal raised carina, with extremely fine sparse punctures, and smooth, apical margin a bit emarginated and almost truncated (Fig. 30 ); frons with sparse punctures in the middle part, interspaces with extremely fine punctures (Fig. 30 ); posterior area of hind ocelli with a row of slightly long longitudinal carina (longer than other species) along occipital carina in the middle area, occipital carina dorsally developed and complete, with thick hair (Fig. 31 ), not sinuate as in P. darugiriensis (Fig. 5 ); anterior face of pronotum with a large deep fovea in the middle (Fig. 31 ); mesoscutum with sparse punctures in the posterior half, interspaces with extremely fine punctures (Fig. 33 ); scutellum and metanotum with sparse punctures, interspaces with extremely fine punctures, scutellum nearly flat in lateral view, scutellum at the same level as the mesoscutum (Fig. 32 ); posterior surface of propodeum with irregular striae and few punctures; T1 elongated, almost hemispheric, T1 slightly concave near the end, both T2 and S2 with apical lamellae.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution.

China (new record: Yunnan); India.

Figures

Figures 29 - 33. Paraleptomenes nurseanus montanus Giordani Soika, 1994. ♀ 29 - 33 29 habitus (dorsal view) 30 head (frontal view) 31 vertex and part of pronotum (dorsal view) 32 mesosoma (lateral view) 33 mesosoma (dorsal view).

Figures 1 - 10. Paraleptomenes setaceus sp. nov. Holotype (♀): 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 paratype (♂): 2, 4, 6, 8. 1, 2 habitus (dorsal view) 3, 4 head (frontal view) 5 vertex and part of pronotum (dorsal view) 6 A 6 - A 13 7 mesosoma (dorsal view) 8 metasoma (ventral view) 9 tegula (dorsal view) 10 mesosoma (lateral view).