Episyron infestum ( Bingham, 1896 )

Anju, K., Kumar, P. Girish & Thejass, P., 2024, Review of the spider wasp genus Episyron Schiødte, 1837 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from India, with description of three new species, Zootaxa 5405 (4), pp. 562-576 : 564-565

Episyron infestum ( Bingham, 1896)

Pompilus infestus Bingham 1896: 430 , ♀. Holotype, ♀, India, deposited in British Museum of Natural History, London. Episyron infestum : Wahis 2018: 10.

Diagnosis. Female. Body with following yellow markings: clypeus, inner margin of eyes, line on posterior margin of pronotum, spot on hind tibiae at base, basal two segments of mid and hind tarsi and third and fourth segments of metasoma; tegulae ferruginous; wings flavo-hyaline, broadly infuscated at apex, veins brown; head, mesosoma and metasoma smooth; front of face flat with an abbreviated impressed line running from anterior ocellus to between antennae; clypeus convex, transversely rectangular, its sides rounded; propodeum short, rounded posteriorly with steep slope at apex; legs stout, tibiae and tarsi with a few scattered spines, fore tibiae and tarsi weakly haired on outer side; and claws unidentate ( Bingham 1896, 1897). Male. Unknown.

Distribution. India ( Bingham 1897).

Note. Bingham (1897) stated that the species occurs “Throughout India ”.