Antepipona excelsa pallida Giordani Soika, 1982

Kumar, Girish P., Carpenter, James M. & Sureshan, Pavittu M., 2016, A taxonomic review of the genus Antepipona de Saussure, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from India, Zootaxa 4150 (5), pp. 501-536 : 514-516

8b. Antepipona excelsa pallida Giordani Soika, 1982

( Figs 37–42 )

Antepipona excelsa pallida Giordani Soika 1982: 250 , ♀, “ Himalaya: Kumaon, Chaubattia” (RMNH).

♀ ( Figs 37–42 ). Differs from the nominotypical subspecies for the pale yellow colour of the spots. Other colour differences: mandible with V–shaped spot at base; clypeus, in addition to basal band, with pre apical yellow mark; dorsal face of propodeum with yellow spot; regular apical band on T4; T5 sometimes with full apical band or reduced to spot at middle; tegulae sometimes ferruginous.

Size (H+M+T1+T2). 9–9.5 mm.

Material examined. INDIA: Delhi, Palam, 1♀, 6.ix.1978, Coll. Bindu, NZC No. 16365/H3; Himachal Pradesh, Shimla district, Fagu to Kufri, 21.v.1916, Coll. N. Annandale, NZC Nos. 375/H3 & 380–382/H3; Solan district, Kasauli, 19–20.vi.1979, Coll. V.K. Gupta, NZC Nos. 16366–16369/H3; Chamba district, Jamuhar, 30.vi.2012, Coll. D. Banerjee & Party, NZC No. 16370/H3.

Distribution. India: * Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand.

Figures

FIGURES 37 – 42. Antepipona excelsa pallida Giordani Soika, ♀. 37. Body, profile. 38. Head, frontal view. 39. Head and anterior face of pronotum, dorsal view. 40. Mesosoma, dorsal view. 41. Propodeum. 42. Metasoma, dorsal view.