57) Antepipona ceylonica (de Saussure, 1867)

Odynerus ceylonicus de Saussure 1867: 12 . Type data: MHNG. Type locality: Sri Lanka (Ceylon).

Odynerus ornaticaudis Cameron 1909: 137 . Type data: Female, BMNH. Type locality: Mumbai (Bombay), India .

Antepipona ceylonica: Giordani Soika, 1982a [1981]: 207 (key), 215.

Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Yelahanka Bengaluru, 04.iv.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh ; 22.iv.2017, 5 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh; 26.iv.2017, 1 ♀ & 1 ♂, Coll. Ashwath; 3.v.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh; 12.v.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh; 15.v.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh; 10.ix.2017, 3 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; Kanakpura, 07.i.2014, 2 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; IWSt Bengaluru, 08.v.2013, 2 ♀, Coll. Naveenkumar ; Kolar, 27.xii.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; Sirsi, 20.vi.2016, 1 ♂. Coll. Ashwath. Nagaland: Medziphema Dimapur, 03.iii.2015, 4 ♀ & 5 ♂, Coll. Ankita Gupta. Odisha: OUAT Bhubaneshwar, 26.i.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; Puri, 30.i.2017, 1 ♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas. Rajasthan: MPUAT Udaipur, 21.xi.2015, 2 ♀ & 1 ♂, Coll. Sandesh & Umeshkumar. Tamil Nadu: Pichavaram, 16.x.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Sankararaman.

Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Nagaland (new record) Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Myanmar: Sri Lanka. (Giordani Soika 1982a [1981], Gusenleitner 2006, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014a & 2015b, Girish Kumar et al. 2016b, Pannure et al. 2016, Gawas et al. 2019, Girish Kumar et al. 2019b).