Eumenes affinissimus de Saussure, 1852

Qin, Jiong, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2023, Additions to the knowledge of the genus Eumenes Latreille, 1802 from China (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96, pp. 697-714 : 697

Eumenes affinissimus de Saussure, 1852 new record

Figs 11-20

Eumenes affinissima de Saussure, 1852: 37; Smith 1873: 371; Bingham 1897: 335, 340; Paiva 1907: 15; Dutt 1912: 229; Dover and Rao 1922: 237; Dover 1925 (1924): 292; von Schulthess 1935: 299; Giordani Soika 1960: 159; Gusenleitner 2006: 693; Girish Kumar et al. 2017: 471; Fateryga et al. 2023: 447.

Eumenes pomiformis affinissima ? Eumenes pomiformis var. affinissima : Maindron, 1882: 268; Dalla Torre 1894: 30; 1904: 24; Dover 1931: 252.

Eumenes coelestimontana Kostylev, 1940: 140; Gusenleitner 1972: 71, 87; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 126; Gusenleitner 2006: 693.

Material examined.

1♂, China, Tibet, Linzhi City, Bomi County, Yigong Village , 29°34'08"N, 106°33'28"E, 3300 m, 2014.viii.1, Ting-Jing Li (CNU) ; 3♀ 6♂, China, Gansu Province, Zhangye City , Sunan County, 36°40'40"N, 102°25'19"E, 3200 m, 2019.vii.2, Xue Zhang (CNU) ; 1♂, China, Ningxia Province, Guyuan City, Jingyuan County, Shanan Village , 35°26'49"N, 106°25'37"E, 1778 m, 2020.vii.30, Qian Han (CNU) .

Diagnosis.

Female. Body length 10.3-11.4 mm. Body black, with yellow markings (Fig. 11 ): interantennal spot reaching clypeus, gena, pronotum anteriorly, band of metanotum, tegula mostly (Fig. 15 ), fore tibia largely, and apical bands of T1 and T2; body with setae dense and long, those on head longer than scape width; clypeus entirely black, longer than wide, with long setae (Fig. 13 ); dorsal view (Figs 18 , 19 ), T1 densely punctate, length of T1 less than 4 × its apical width and abruptly swollen from one-third near base, then lateral margin parallel at apex, and not constrict near apical margin; T2 sparsely punctate, punctures obviously smaller than those of T1, apical lamella of T2 not reflex, and not depressed in the middle (Fig. 20 ); basal angle of segment 2 acute in lateral view (Fig. 17 ), T2 not strongly swollen in the middle, weakly depressed in its preapical part; and wings pale brown.

Male. Body length 8.6-9.7 mm (Fig. 12 ). Sculpture, setae, and coloration similar to female except as follows: clypeus yellow except lateral margin (Fig. 14 ); apex of A13 reaching basal fourth of A10 (Fig. 16 ).

Distribution.

China (Tibet, Gansu, Ningxia); Pakistan; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan; Kyrgyzstan; Kazakhstan; Mongolia; India; Bangladesh; Myanmar; Malaysia; Indonesia: Java.

Figures

Figures 11 - 20. Eumenes affinissimus de Saussure, 1852. ♀: 11, 13, 15, 17 - 20 ♂: 12, 14, 16. 11, 12 habitus (dorsal view) 13, 14 clypeus (frontal view) 15 head and pronotum (dorsal view) 16 antenna 17 metasomal segments 2 - 6 (lateral view) 18 T 2 (dorsal view) 19 T 1 (dorsal view) 20 lamella of T 2 apical margin (dorsal view).