Antepipona excelsa excelsa 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

8a. Antepipona excelsa excelsa Giordani Soika, 1982

( Figs 35, 36 )

Colour. ♀ ( Figs 35–36 ). Body black with mandible, tegulae and tarsi ferruginous. Dark yellow to almost orange: band at base of clypeus, sometimes interrupted at middle; mark on front; line on lower lobe of inner orbit of eye up to bottom of ocular sinus; ventral side of scape; band on anterior margin of pronotum; mark on mesepisternum; two marks on scutellum; tegula and parategula; apex of outer face of fore and mid femora; fore and mid tibiae; base of hind tibiae; an apical band on T1; two spots on sides of base and large apical band on T2; thin apical band on T3; apical band, relatively large, on T4; sometimes mark at middle of T6; large apical band on S2. Wing strongly infumated, with violet reflection.

Ƌ. Unknown.

Size (H+M+T1+T2). 8.5–9.5 mm.

Material examined. NEPAL: Kathmandu district, Sundarijal, 2♀, date of collection and name of collector unknown, NZC Nos. 16363/H3, 16364/H3.

Distribution. Nepal; China: Tibet.

Figures

FIGURES 31 – 36. 31 – 34. Antepipona ceylonica (de Saussure) (31, ♀; 32 – 34, Ƌ). 31. Metasoma, dorsal view. 32. Head, frontal view. 33. Clypeus. 34. Apical antennal articles. 35, 36. A. e. excelsa Giordani Soika, ♀. 35. Body, profile. 36. Clypeus.