Anterhynchium mephisto (Gribodo, 1892)

Selis, Marco & Carpenter, James M., 2023, Revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Anterhynchium de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), Zootaxa 5233 (1), pp. 1-102 : 52

mephisto species-group

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Diagnosis. Species of this group are recognized by following characters: propodeum rounded with a small to large tooth above propodeal valvula, propodeal valvula strongly striate and shallowly incised dorsally, male clypeus very narrowly truncated apically and with longitudinal carinae, male vertex bearing an area with differentiated tegument, male F11 bacilliform, male mid femur barely depressed basally, female clypeus pyriform with coarse punctures and apical depression.

Figures

FIGURE 9. Diagnostic characters of mephisto species-group. A, head of male in dorsal view. B, mid femur of male in frontal view. C, propodeum in lateral view. D, propodeal valvula in lateral view. E, male genitalia: aedeagus in ventral view, aedeagus in lateral view, digitus and volsella in lateral view.