Stenancistrocerus (Paratropancistrocerus) transcaspicus ( Kostylev, 1935 )

Li, Ting-Jing, Bai, Yue & Chen, Bin, 2022, A revision of the genus Jucancistrocerus Blüthgen, 1938 from China, with review of three related genera (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 401-420 : 415

Stenancistrocerus (Paratropancistrocerus) transcaspicus ( Kostylev, 1935)

( Figs 73–80 )

Odynerus transcaspicus Kostylev, 1935: 134 .

Atropancistrocerus transcaspicus: Blüthgen, 1938b: 461 .

. Stenancistrocerus transcaspicus: Blüthgen, 1942: 314 ; van der Vecht and Fischer, 1972: 58; Kurzenko, 1977: 551; Oehlke, 2012: 599 ; Fateryga, 2020: 593.

Material examined. 2♀, China, Gansu Prov., Zhangeye City, Gaotai County, Heiquan Town , Yanzhibao Village , 39.607°′N, 99.654°E, 1319 m, 1.VII.2019, Xue Zhang ; 1♀, China, Inner Mongolia, Urad Front Banner, Beiqidu Town, Youfangqiliang Village , 40.899°′N, 108.562°E, 996 m, 1.VIII.2016, Zhenxia Ma .

Diagnosis. Body black, with great yellow markings, the following parts generally yellow ( Figs 73–80 ): one big spot on frons, clypeus except anterior margins, antenna ventrally, gena, pronotum except posterior apex, one big spot on scutellum, propodeum except posterior surface medially, tegula, parategula, legs except hind coxa to femur, wide basal bands and narrow apical ones of both T1–T2 and S2 ( Figs 73, 79–80 ), apical bands of T3–T5, and apical interrupted band of S3. Clypeus ( Fig. 74 ) much wider than long, widely and deeply emarginated at apex forming two lateral teeth, and with one tooth-like protuberance in the middle of emargination; head and mesosoma with coarser punctures than metasoma, somewhat reticulate; propodeal margin between dorsal surfaces and lateral and posterior surfaces without tooth-like protuberance ( Fig. 78 ); T1 with sloping surface in front of transverse edge, and with another transverse edge in front of the sloping surface ( Figs 77–78 ).

Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Xinjiang); Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Kyrgyzstan; Kazakhstan.

Figures

FIGURES 73–80. Stenancistrocerus (Paratropancistrocerus) transcaspicus, ♀. 73. Habitus, dorsal view; 74. Head, frontal view; 75. Head and pronotal carina, frontal view; 76. Tegula, dorsal view; 77. T1, dorsal view; 78. Propodeum, dorsal view; 79. T2–T6, dorsal view; 80. S2–S6, ventral view.