Antepipona intricata ( Smith, 1857 )

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 : 517-518

12. Antepipona intricata ( Smith, 1857)

Odynerus intricatus Smith 1857: 59 , Ƌ, “Bombay” ( BMNH); Smith 1871: 376 (cat.); Dalla Torre 1894: 74 (cat.); Bingham 1897: 365 (syn. of Odynerus punctatipennis de Saussure, 1852 ; India: Sikkim, Allahabad , Delhi, Bombay ); Dalla Torre 1904: 47 (cat.).

Antepipona intricata: Giordani Soika, 1982: 206 (key), 252, figs 53–56 (♀; India); Lambert 2004: 554 (key).

Diagnosis. Ƌ. Metanotal teeth closer to lateral metanotal margins than between themselves; posterior face of propodeum punctate; S2 bulged at base, where it strongly convex, without longitudinal furrow; front sub opaque, smoothly punctate, punctures sparse and superficial, almost indistinguishable at middle, ferruginous; apical antennal article very small, triangular, not reach half of eleventh article; propodeum with superior carina distinct.

Colour. Body ferruginous with black spot on front, which includes ocelli, and brown–black band on T2 pre apically, separating basal ferruginous part from apical yellow band. Yellow or yellow–ferruginous: mandible; clypeus; lower part of front; ventral side of scape; middle of pronotum; outer face of all tibiae and tarsi; thin regular apical band on T1, joined to sides with two spots; large spots at sides of T2, joined to an apical band that slightly enlarged at middle; band, greatly enlarged at middle and at sides, at apex of S2; T3–T7 except apex of T7 black. Wings strongly infumated; fore wing more strongly along upper margin; stigma yellow–ferruginous.

♀. Clypeus as wide as long, weakly emarginated at apex, with widely rounded apical teeth; apical margin equal to about 1, 3 × of maximum width of clypeus; antenna moderately elongated, with fifth article distinctly longer than wide; punctation of clypeus denser than that of Ƌ. Colour similar to that of Ƌ except mandibles largely ferruginous and T6 and last two sternites more ferruginous.

Size (H+M+T1+T2). Ƌ, 9 mm; ♀, 9.5 mm.

Distribution. India: Maharashtra.

Remarks. No material was available for our studies; hence the description was taken from Giordani Soika, 1982.