Antepipona frontalis Giordani Soika, 1982, 1981

Kumar, Girish P., Carpenter, James M. & Sureshan, Pavittu M., 2016, A taxonomic review of the genus Antepipona de Saussure, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from India, Zootaxa 4150 (5), pp. 501-536 : 516

9. Antepipona frontalis Giordani Soika, 1982

Antepipona frontalis Giordani Soika 1982: 207 (key), 255, figs 57–58, Ƌ, ♀, “ Sri Lanka: Ham. Distr., Palatupana Tank ” (holotype, Ƌ, USNM); Lambert 2004: 554 (key); Gusenleitner 2006a: 690 ( India: Kerala).

Diagnosis. Ƌ. Metanotal teeth closer to each other than to lateral metanotal margins; posterior face of propodeum smooth and shiny; S2 regularly convex from base to apex, with longitudinal groove at base; front sub opaque, smoothly punctate, punctures sparse and superficial, almost indistinguishable at middle, ferruginous.

Colour. Body ferruginous with yellow and black markings. Yellow markings: mandible; clypeus; ventral side of scape; front; temple; large and irregular band on anterior margin of pronotum; outer margin of tegula; parategula; large part of scutellum; metanotum; large part of fore and mid femur; all tibiae and tarsi; narrow band at apex, slightly enlarged at middle, on T1; two spots at sides of base of T2; apical bands, greatly enlarged at middle and on sides, on T2 and S2; wide apical bands on T3–T6 & S3–S6. Black markings: radicle of scape; W–shaped inverted mark on ocellar area.

♀. Similar to male except punctures sparser; apical teeth distant from each other about 1,3 of maximum width of clypeus; Yellow band of pronotum interrupted twice and narrow on sides; T5, T6, S5 & S6 and part of T4 & S4 ferruginous.

Size (H+M+T1+T2). Ƌ and ♀, 7.5 mm.

Distribution. India: Kerala, Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka.

Remarks. No material was available for our studies; hence the description was taken from Giordani Soika, 1982.