Episyron zebra ( Cameron, 1891 )

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 : 574

Episyron zebra ( Cameron, 1891)

Pompilus zebra Cameron, 1891: 460 , 475. India: Shillong (Type depository?).

Episyron zebra : Wahis 2018: 11.

Diagnosis. Female. Black with the following portions dull ferruginous: mandibles, apex of clypeus, inner orbits of eyes to near the top broadly and the outer narrowly, broad band on pronotum, tegulae, band on base of T2, T3 entirely, on others except a band on base of T4, apex of femora, tibiae and tarsi and the antennae; head and mesosoma bearing long white setae; no apparent sculpture on body; head little wider than mesosoma; narrow furrow in the middle of frons; eyes arcuate above, the rest parallel; POD as long as OOD; clypeus short, rounded at apex; occiput convex; propodeum about as long as pronotum, gradually rounded at apex, apical half bearing dense covering of white setae; metasoma subsessile, apical segment aciculate; long hind tibial spur reaching beyond middle of hind basitarsus; claws with a thick basal tooth; and wings infuscated at apex ( Cameron 1891; Bingham 1897). Male. Unknown.

Distribution. India: Meghalaya ( Bingham 1897).