Polistes (Polistella) stigma tamulus ( Fabricius, 1798 ) (Fabricius, 1793)

Sheikh, Altaf Hussain, Kumar, P. Girish, Thomas, Moni & Bhandari, Rita, 2017, Taxonomic studies on Vespid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae) of Dumna Nature Park, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (3), pp. 198-198 : 198-

2. Polistes (Polistella) stigma tamulus ( Fabricius, 1798)

1798. Vespa tamula Fabricius , 263. Type Female , “in India Orientali, Dom Daldorff ” ( ZMUK).

1996. Polistes (Polistella) stigma tamulus; Carpenter, 16 .

Diagnosis: Female: S1 without distinct margin at base; T1 about as long as wide; median groove of propodeum shallow, with close fine transverse striations; forewing with subapical fuscous cloud.

Colour Description: Body predominantly reddish with some black markings and following yellow markings: clypeus, mandible, broad line along inner orbit up to lower half of ocular sinus, line on temple bordering eye margin, malar space, basal and apical margin of pronotum narrowly, line on scutellum at base, another on metanotum at base, mark on subtegular area, elongated mark on mesepisternum at top and another in middle of apical-lateral margin in front of metapleuron, raised ventral margin of mesepisternum and ventral metapleuron each, mark on dorsal metapleuron, two lines on mesosternum, two broad curved marks on propodeum, apical valvula entirely, fore coxa in front entirely, marks on mid coxa in front and two lines on hind coxa below, T1 except broad reddish mark at base, apical broad band on T3 and S3, fourth gastral segment almost entire

Size (H+M+T1+T2): 14.5 mm.

Material examined: INDIA: Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur district, Dumna Nature Park , 6♀, 18.ix.2015, Coll. Altaf Hussain Sheikh.

Distribution: India: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh (new record), Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Odisha, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Pakistan, Sri Lanka.