Parancistrocerus feai Giordani Soika, 1994

P. Girish Kumar, J. M. Carpenter & P. M. Sureshan, 2016, A taxonomic review of the genus Parancistrocerus Bequaert (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from the Indian subcontinent with the description of three new species, Halteres 7 (1), pp. 36-156 : 141

4. Parancistrocerus feai Giordani Soika, 1994

Parancistrocerus feai Giordani Soika, 1994: 157 (key), 190, female, “ Burma: Carin Chebà, 900-1100 m” (MSNG); also from Malaysia; India. Diagnosis: Female: Base of S2 without longitudinal groove; vertical anterior face of T1 about as long as dorsal horizontal face; S2 convex at base, very weakly depressed after; T2 not reflexed at apex; T2 with apical margin normal, not prolonged at posterior margin medially; clypeus widely emarginate at apex, with width between apical teeth as long as width between antennal sockets; superior carina of propodeum much less developed, sides heavily depressed near propodeal valvula.

Colour description: Body black with yellow and ferruginous markings. Yellow markings: spot at base of mandibles; clypeus except large black cross band; ventral side of scape; apical spot on femur and line on outer face of fore tibia. Ferruginous markings: wide band along dorsal surface of pronotum anteriorly; spot, sometimes absent, on top of mesepisternum; metanotum; propodeal valvula; tegulae; parategulae; wide and regular apical bands on T1 and T2; narrow band on S2. Wings moderately infumate.

Length (H+M+T1+T2): 7-8 mm.

Male: Unknown.

Distribution: India: Sikkim; Myanmar; Malaysia.

Remarks: No specimens were available for our studies; hence the description was taken from Giordani Soika (1994).