Pseumenes polillensis ( Giordani Soika, 1941 )

Selis, Marco, 2017, The genus Pseumenes Giordani Soika, 1935 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) in the Philippine Islands, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4306 (2), pp. 296-300 : 297

Pseumenes polillensis ( Giordani Soika, 1941) ( Figs. 11–13 )

Pareumenes (Pseumenes) polillensis Giordani Soika 1941: 220 , ♂ —“ Filippine: Isola Polillo” (holotype MSNVE) . Material examined. PHILIPPINES: POLILLO: VIII.1915, leg. Böttcher, 1♂ (holotype, MSNVE) ; LUZON: Quirino, Disimongal , X.2015, leg. local collector, 1♂ ( MSVI) .

Distribution. Philippine Islands: Polillo ( Giordani Soika 1941). Newly recorded from Luzon.

Remarks. The specimen from Luzon differs from the holotype in the following color characters: apical margin of clypeus black, only the upper yellow spot present on mesepisternum, tegulae black with small posterior yellow spot, two small ill-defined spots on scutellum, two basal spots on propodeum, apical spots of propodeum expanded medially along margins of median depression, apical band of T1 interrupted medially and expanded laterally, median portion of apical bands on T2–T3 reduced to two ill-defined small sposts, basal spot on S2 divided into two longitudinal markings all yellow.

Figures

FIGURES 8 – 13. 8 – 10. Pseumenes palawanensis Giordani Soika, 1993, ♀, paratype. 8, Habitus; 9, Scutellum and metanotum in postero-dorsal view; 10, Apical margin of T 2. 11 – 13. Pseumenes polillensis (Giordani Soika, 1941), ♂. 11, Habitus; 12, Vertex in lateral view; 13, T 3 – 4 in dorsal view.