Irenangelus albovariegatus ( Cameron, 1897 )

Binoy, C., Wahis, Raymond & Kumar, P. Girish, 2020, Review of the aberrant spider wasp genus Irenangelus Schulz (Pompilidae Ceropalinae) from the Indian subcontinent with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 4860 (2), pp. 257-266 : 259

Irenangelus albovariegatus ( Cameron, 1897)

Ceropales albovariegata Cameron, 1897: 84 ; Bingham 1897: 176.

Xanthampulex albovariegata Turner 1912: 3 62; 1917: 359.

Hypsiceraeus albovariegatus: Cameron 1897: 405 .

Type material. Holotype, ♂ —“ Sri Lanka: Eastern Province, Trincomalee district , Date? Coll.Yerbury ” [ NHMUK], examined by RW.

Diagnosis. This species is clearly recognizable among congeners in having the head and mesosoma black with white markings; fu 1 –fu 3 with joints ventro-basally fulvous; metasoma testaceous yellow; wings hyaline and iridescent, veins and tegulae testaceous; head with a remarkable subcordate grooved or bilobed projection on front, above base of antennae; mesonotum with two parallel well-marked longitudinal furrows; propodeum rounded posteriorly, with a medial longitudinal furrow; metasoma short, slightly laterally compressed.

Distribution. Sri Lanka (Trincomalee);? India (Uttarakhand) ( Bingham 1896; Móczár 1985).

Note. Móczár (1985) reports a specimen examined from Mussoorie collected by Rothney named Ceropales (= Irenangelu s) albomaculatus, type originating from now Uttarakhand, India, deposited at Oxford. However, no such synonymy could be traced to the species. The synonym Hypsiceraeus albovariegatus Cameron, 1915 is originally found in sources as doubtful taxon within Hypsiceraeus ( Morice & Durrant 1915) .