Euodynerus (Euodynerus) socotrae ( Kohl, 1907 )

Selis, Marco, 2024, Revision of the Afrotropical species of Euodynerus Dalla Torre (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), Zootaxa 5399 (4), pp. 365-380 : 375-376

Euodynerus (Euodynerus) socotrae ( Kohl, 1907)

Fig. 6

Odynerus socotrae Kohl 1907: 257 , pl. V figs. 1, 4, ♀, ♁—“Ras Shoab” (NHMW)

Diagnosis. Readily distinguished from other African Euodynerus by the following characters: occipital carina and pronotal carina evenly curved on sides, mesosoma not depressed, T1 with sharply defined translucent margin, T1–2 densely and evenly punctate with interspaces at least as wide as punctures, pattern black and orange with T1 and T2 orange at apex and on sides, T3 and following segments almost entirely orange, male F11 digitiform and weakly curved.

Material examined. YEΜEN: Socotra, Hadibo , 21.II.1953, leg. G. Popov, 1♀ ( MSNVE) ( Fig. 8 ) .

Distribution. Yemen: Socotra ( Giordani Soika 1934, 1940; Kohl 1907).

Species erroneously placed in Euodynerus

Figures

FIGURE 6. Euodynerus socotrae (Kohl, 1907), female. A, habitus in dorsal view. B, head in frontal view. C, head in dorsal view.

FIGURE 8. Distribution map of Afrotropical species of Euodynerus Dalla Torre.