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Eumenes buddha Cameron 1898

Description

6. Eumenes buddha Cameron, 1897

Eumenes buddha Cameron, 1897: 86, ♀—“Barrackpore, Bengal” (OUM); Cameron, 1898: 36 (notes); Rothney, 1903: 106 (cat.); Dalla Torre, 1904: 21 (cat.); Giordani Soika, 1960: 160 (key), 161 (in subgenus Eumenes); Zhou et al., 2012: 469 (key).

Diagnosis. T 2, in profile View, only Slightly Swollen in middle, weakly impreSSed preapically and apical margin Slightly reflected; apical margin of T2 not emarginate medially; T2 longer than wide in dorSal View, with hairS Very Short, mUch Shorter than thoSe at baSe of T1; tegUla withoUt emargination at lateral margin; T1 pear-Shaped, leSS than 4x itS apical width, and abrUptly Swollen before middle, dilated poSterior part with almoSt parallel SideS in dorSal View; temple with hairS; tegUla black; interantennal with yellow mark cloSe to baSe of clypeUS; apex of T1 with narrow yellow mark; T2 with narrow yellow band, with width leSS than 1/3 of the width of tergUm and withoUt a black mark in the band; pronotUm with UninterrUpted broad yellow tranSVerSe band; Ventral Side of Scape yellow; head, mesosoma and metasoma with white setae; apical margins of T3–T4 without yellow marks in the ♂.

Distribution. India: WeSt Bengal; China.

Remarks: SpecimenS of thiS SpecieS were not aVailable for oUr StUdy, hence the diagnoSiS waS taken from Giordani Soika (1960) and ZhoU et al. (2012).

Notes

Published as part of Sureshan, Pavittu M., 2017, A taxonomic review of the Indian species of the genus Eumenes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), pp. 469-498 in Zootaxa 4317 (3) on page 479, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/884738

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Vespidae
Genus
Eumenes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Cameron
Species
buddha
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Eumenes buddha Cameron, 1898 sec. Sureshan, 2017

References

  • Cameron, P. (1897) Hymenoptera Orientalia, or Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Oriental Zoological Region. Part V. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 41 (4), 1 - 144, 2 pls.
  • Cameron, P. (1898) Hymenoptera Orientalia, or Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Oriental Zoological Region. Part VII. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 42 (11), 1 - 84, 1 pl.
  • Rothney, G. A. J. (1903) The aculeate Hymenoptera of Barrackpore, Bengal. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 1903, 93 - 116. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1903. tb 01128. x
  • Dalla Torre, K. W. von (1904) Vespidae, Genera Insectorum, 19, 1 - 108.
  • Zhou, X, Chen, B. & Li, T. (2012) Two new species and a key to species of the genus Eumenes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from southwestern China. Entomotaxonomia, 34 (2), 467 - 474.