Parancistrocerus capocacciai Giordani

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 : 140-141

3. Parancistrocerus capocacciai Giordani

Soika, 1994

Parancistrocerus capocacciai Giordani Soika, 1994: 154 (key), 164, fig. 41, female, “ Burma: Carin Cheba, 900-1100 m” (MSNG); Gusenleitner, 2011: 1358 (Laos).

Diagnosis: Female: T2 with apical margin prolonged in middle; superior carina of propodeum well developed and very clear, especially dorsally, where it clearly separates horizontal dorsal face of propodeum from posterior face; much bigger punctures on T2 preapically.

Colour description: Body black with brown ferruginous, red ferruginous and yellow markings. Brown ferruginous markings: antennae and legs. Red ferruginous markings: spot above interantennal space; ocular sinus; line on tempora; spot on upper mesepisternum; wide band on dorsal surface of pronotum, and very narrow line on posterior margin of pronotum; tegulae; parategulae; metanotum almost entirely; narrow and regular apical band on T1; wider and equally regular apical band, on T2; narrow apical band on S2. Yellow markings: clypeus except large central brown mark; ventral side of scape; line on outer surface of fore tibia. Wing infumate, with large brown stain on marginal cell.

Male: Unknown.

Length (H+M+T1+T2): 9 mm.

Distribution: Myanmar; Laos.

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