Dasyproctus opifex (Bingham, 1897)

Binoy, C. & Kumar, P. Girish, 2024, Dasyproctus yesudasi sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae, Crabroninae), a new square-headed moustache wasp from south India, Zootaxa 5512 (1), pp. 136-150 : 143

Dasyproctus opifex (Bingham, 1897)

( Figs 23–28 )

Images of type examined: Holotype / Syntype ♀, Myanmar: Tenasserim: Thaungyuin valley (? Taunggyi), coll. Col. C.T. Bingham 96–30, (18)94, B.M. TYPE HYM. 21.1,011 ( NHMUK 012858888 ) .

Diagnosis based on Holotype / Syntype. Body length 11.03 mm; fore wing length 5.95 mm.

Black except the following: scape yellow with dorsal brown patch, mandible yellow with apical teeth reddish brown, pronotal collar with narrow yellow band (except medially), pronotal lobe yellow, axilla and two noncontinuous spots on scutellum yellow, metanotum with a medial noncontinuous yellow patch, all tibiae brown with yellow patch on outside; prepectus and metasoma entirely black; clypeus medio-apically truncated, medial carina complete, reaching the apical margin; IOC inconspicuously indicated below thick setosity; supra-orbital furrow shallow/ indistinct; POD subequal to OOD; head, mesosoma and metasoma matt with dense micropunctures; anterior bordering carina of pronotal collar curved towards pronotal lobe; scutellum with fine longitudinal striae anteriorly; hind femur angulate in baso-dorsal half; Gt 1 apically and Gt 2 basally polished, shiny part of Gt 2 finely alutaceous.

Figures

FIGURES 23–28. Dasyproctus opifex (Bingham, 1897). Holotype/Syntype ♀.23, habitus, lateral view; 24, head, frontal view; 25, clypeus, enlarged view; 26, habitus, dorsal view; 27, Gt1 and Gt2, dorsal view; 28, type labels.