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Antepipona sibilans

  • 1. Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode - 673006, Kerala, India; kpgiris @ gmail. com
  • 2. Zoological Survey of India, M- Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India; mohana. skumar @ gmail. com

Description

8. Antepipona sibilans (Cameron, 1903)

(Fig. 8)

1903. Odynerus sibilans Cameron, 129, , Barrackpore” (OUM).

1982. Antepipona sibilans; Giordani Soika, 206, 207 (key), 225, figs. 23–28 (syn.: A. deflendiformis; India).

Material examined: INDIA: Kerala, Kannur district, Thalassery mangroves, Koduvally, 1 , 23.vi.2016, Coll. K. Sruthi, ZSI/ WGRC /I. R.-INV.6972.

Diagnosis: Apical emargination of clypeus moderately deep; apical antennal article in male hooked, and its apex reaching middle of tenth article; metanotal teeth close to metanotal margin; distance between metanotal teeth twice as much distance between each tooth and lateral metanotal margin; head and mesosoma densely punctate; pronotum with horizontal series of punctures on middle third of anterior face, close to each other and separated by thin carina.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Nepal; Pakistan (Girish Kumar et al, 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Kumar, P. Girish & Rajmohana, K., 2018, Taxonomic studies on Wasps of Kottooli and Thalassery-Dharmadam Mangroves of Kerala (Insecta: Hymenoptera), pp. 337-349 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4) on pages 340-341, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/119059, http://zenodo.org/record/13184079

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
OUM , WGRC, R
Event date
2016-06-23
Family
Eumenidae
Genus
Antepipona
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Cameron
Species
sibilans
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2016-06-23
Taxonomic concept label
Antepipona sibilans (Cameron, 1903) sec. Kumar & Rajmohana, 2018

References

  • Cameron, P. 1903. Description of nineteen new species of Larridae, Odynerus and Apidae from Barrackpore. Trans. Entomol. Soc. London, 1903: 117 - 132.
  • Girish Kumar, P., Carpenter, J. M. and Sureshan, P. M. 2016. A taxonomic review of the genus Antepipona de Saussure, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from India. Zootaxa, 4150 (5): 501 - 536. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4150.5.1