Anterhynchium (Anterhynchium) mellyi ( de Saussure, 1852 )

Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, Zootaxa 4784 (1), pp. 1-87 : 22-23

75) Anterhynchium (Anterhynchium) mellyi ( de Saussure, 1852)

Rygchium mellyi de Saussure, 1852: 116 . Type data: Female, MNHN & MHNG. Type locality: “ Les Indes , La Chine ”.

Rhynchium mellyi ; de Saussure, 1855: 172.

Odynerus mellyi ; Dover, 1929: 44.

Anterhynchium mellyi ; van der Vecht, 1963: 76.

Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore , GKVK, 916 m, 16.vi.1979, 1♂, coll. Ghorpade ; 930 m, 13°04’ N 77°34’ E, 3.iii.2012, 1♀; 1.ii.2014, 1♀, coll.A. Pannure; Hebbal , 900 m, 13°02’ N 77°35’ E, 31.x, 20.xi.2014, 1♂, 1♀, coll. Zammeroddin. Chikkamagaluru, Mudigere , ZARS, 931 m, 29°10’ N 75°46’ E, 10.x.2012, 1♀, coll. Y. Diwakar. karekere, 934 m, 13°06’ N 76°10’ E, 23.vi.2014, 1♀, coll. C. Prashantha.

Distribution. India: Assam, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: China; Myanmar; Pakistan; Thailand; Vietnam. (Girish Kumar 2013c, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015b, Nguyen 2015a, Pham & Li 2015, Pannure et al. 2016, Rafi et al. 2017, Selis 2018, Girish Kumar et al. 2019b).