Labus lofuensis Giordani Soika, 1973

Li, Ting-Jing & Carpenter, James M., 2018, A taxonomic account of the genus Labus de Saussure, 1867 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) with descriptions of three new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 65, pp. 23-46 : 23

Labus lofuensis Giordani Soika, 1973

Figs 25-31

Labus lofuensis Giordani Soika, 1973: 99; Gusenleitner 1988: 189, 193; Girish Kumar et al. 2014: 36; Nguyen et al. 2014: 11.

Material examined.

1♀ 1♂, China, Hainan Prov., Ta Hau , 4. VII. 1935, L. Gressit (AMNH) .

Diagnosis.

Body (Figs 25-26 ) length 6.5-8.0 mm; head (Figs 27 , 31 ) in frontal view slightly longer than wide, its sides flattened; in female, frontal fovea much deeper, distinctly defined, and rounded (Fig. 28 ); propodeum posteriorly on each side with a moderate tooth above the apical spine formed by the submarginal carina (Fig. 29 ); metasomal petiole long and slender (Fig. 30 ), total length of petiole 7.2 × basal width and 2.57 × apical width, swollen part slightly less than (0.98 ×) half the length of the petiole and with uniform punctures.

Distribution.

China (first record from Hainan); Vietnam.

Figures

Figures 25 - 31. Labus lofuensis Giordani Soika, 1973. 25 habitus, ♀ 26 habitus, ♂ 27 head in frontal view, ♀ 28 frontal fovea, ♀ 29 propodeum in lateral view, ♂ 30 metasomal petiole, ♂ 31 head in frontal view, ♂.