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Antepipona declarata Giordani Soika. A 1991

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Antepipona declarata Giordani Soika, 1991

(Figs 2A, 13A–C, 62K)

Antepipona declarata Giordani Soika, 1991a: 79, 80, ♀ —“ MADAGASCAR oCCIDENTALE: Ankarafantsika ” (UUZM).

Description of male (hitherto unknown). Habitus in Fig. 13B. Differing from the female as follows: head 1.35× as wide as high, clypeus 1.1× as wide as long and deeply emarginate at apex, emargination about as deep as wide and laterally bordered by sharp spiniform teeth, F11 small and thin with sharply pointed apex not reaching basal margin of F9, pronotal humeri slightly more projecting, lateral carinae of scutellum narrower but slightly longer (Fig. 13C), apical reflexed part of T3 shorter, mandible, labrum and clypeus entirely yellow, fore tibia with narrow whitish line on outer face, mid and hind tibiae with whitish spots at base and apex, tarsi white basally and becoming yellow-ferruginous apically.

Distribution. Madagascar: Antsiranana *, Mahajanga, Toliara (Giordani Soika 1991a; Gusenleitner 2000) (Fig. 62K).

Notes

Published as part of Selis, Marco, 2025, The solitary vespid wasps of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae, Raphiglossinae and Zethinae), pp. 1-171 in Zootaxa 5705 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5705.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17326767

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Biodiversity

Collection code
UUZM
Scientific name authorship
Giordani Soika. A
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Eumenidae
Genus
Antepipona
Species
declarata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Antepipona declarata A, 1991 sec. Selis, 2025

References

  • Giordani Soika, A. (1991 a) Vespoidei raccolti da L. A. Nilsson nel Madagascar con una tabella per la determinazione delle Ropalidia del Madagascar (Hymenoptera Vespoidea). Lavori della Societa Veneziana di Scienze Naturali, 16, 79-90.
  • Gusenleitner, J. (2000) Eine Aufsammlung von Eumeniden auf Madagaskar (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea, Eumenidae). Linzer biologische Beitrage, 32 (2), 923-926.