Dasyproctus opifex ( Bingham 1897 )

Binoy, C., Kumar, P. Girish & Santhosh, S., 2021, Review of Indian Dasyproctus Lepeletier & Brullé 1835 (Hymenoptera Crabronidae) with description of four new species, Zootaxa 4991 (3), pp. 467-498 : 487-488

8. Dasyproctus opifex ( Bingham 1897)

Crabro opifex Bingham 1897: 323 . ♀: Myanmar: Tenasserim .

Dasyproctus opifex: Leclercq, 1956: 146 ; 1957: 53 (Kuala Lumpur); 1972: 107, 117.

Diagnosis. (based on the original description, as no specimen was available for study).

Female. Body length 11 mm.

Black with following parts variously coloured: mandible, scape, pronotal collar, pronotal lobe, axilla, two noncontinuous spots on scutellum, metanotum medially, fore and mid femora ventrally and parts on all tibiae yellow; prepectus and metasoma entirely black; clypeus medio-apically truncated; IOC distinct, slightly angular medially; supra-orbital furrow shallow; POD subequal to OOD; head, mesosoma and metasoma matt with dense micropunctures; anterior bordering carina of pronotal collar curved towards pronotal lobe; mesoscutum and scutellum longitudinally striate medio-posteriorly; hind femur angulate in baso-dorsal half; Gt 1 apically and Gt 2 basally polished.

Male. Sculpture similar as in female. Black with following parts yellow: two non- continuous spots on pronotal collar, pronotal lobe, axilla, spots on anterior angles of scutellum, ventral spot on fore femur, fore tibia on outer side, apical spot on mid femur, mid tibia basally; vertex finely punctured; IOC superficially indicated.

Distribution. India: Uttar Pradesh. Elsewhere: Malaysia; Myanmar ( Pulawski 2021).