Eumenes kangrae Dover, 1925

Sureshan, Pavittu M., 2017, A taxonomic review of the Indian species of the genus Eumenes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), Zootaxa 4317 (3), pp. 469-498 : 480

8. Eumenes kangrae Dover, 1925

( FigS 31–36 )

Eumenes pomiformis var. kangrae Dover, 1925: 293 , ♂, “ Kangra Valley, Punjab ” [= Kangra Valley , Himachal Pradesh] ( BMNH).

Eumenes kangrae ; Giordani Soika, 1941: 222, ♀ (notes on type ♀; in subgenus Eumenes ); Giordani Soika, 1960: 160 (key); Giordani Soika, 1986a: 155 (China).

Diagnosis. ♂. Punctation of T2 fine and dense ( Fig. 36 ); propodeum and T1 extensively ferruginous; body with fairly extenSiVe yellow markingS; clypeUS relatiVely elongate ( Fig. 33 ); T2, in profile ( Fig. 31 ), little Swollen in middle, weakly impreSSed preapically and apical margin Slightly reflected; tegUla normal; dorSal Side of pronotUm conVex aS USUal; apical antennal article broadened at baSe, Sharply pointed at apex and reaching to middle of 10th article in cUrVed poSition ( Fig. 34 ).

Colour description. Body black with yellow and ferrUginoUS markingS. Yellow: mandible except at baSe; clypeUS; mark on interantennal Space, broadened at lower fronS and extended to baSe of clypeUS; linear mark on inner orbit below ocUlar SinUS (SometimeS abSent); linear mark on temple towardS Vertex; Ventral Side of Scape; broad band on pronotUm and margin of pronotUm adjacent to meSoScUtUm; tegUla; parategUla; ScUtellUm; Spot on meSopleUron; Small and large Spot on SideS of propodeUm; apex of fore and mid femora; fore and mid tibia; oUter Side of fore and mid baSitarSUS; two lateral SpotS at middle and apical band on T1; two large baSo-lateral SpotS and medially and laterally narrowed, broad apical band on T2; broad apical band on S2; narrow apical bandS on T3-T6 and S3-S6. FerrUginoUS: flagellar SegmentS except dorSal Side of median SegmentS black; Varying degree of markingS on pronotUm and propodeUm; baSe of T1 except at extreme baSe black; Ventral Side of petiole almoSt entirely; SometimeS Varying degree of markingS on T2 & S2. WingS almoSt hyaline except for weak infUmation at marginal cell. Body length: 9-10 mm.

♀. Not StUdied.

Material examined. INDIA: Himachal PradeSh, Kangra Valley, Alt. 4500 ft., 2 ♂, Vi.1899, Coll. DUdgeon, ZSIK Regd. Nos. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8307 & 8308; Chamba district , Rajpura riverside, 1 ♂, 25.vi.2012 , Coll. D. Banerjee & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8309. Sikkim, SoUth Sikkim diStrict, Jorethang , 1 ♂, 10.xi.1994 , Coll. G.C. Sen & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/WGRS/I.R-INV.8310.

Distribution. India: Himachal PradeSh, * Sikkim; China: GUangdong.

Figures

FIGURES 31 – 36. Eumenes kangrae Dover, ♂. 31, Body, lateral view. 32, Head, frontal view. 33, Clypeus. 34, Antenna. 35, Head, mesosoma and petiole, dorsal view. 36, T 2, dorsal view.