Harpactus ornatus F. Smith, 1856

Binoy, C., Kumar, P. Girish, Monks, Joseph & Sheikh, Altaf Hussain, 2022, A review of digger wasp genus Harpactus Shuckard, 1837 (Hymenoptera Crabronidae) of the Indian subcontinent, with description of a new species and rediscovery of Harpactus impudens (Nurse, 1903), Zootaxa 5190 (4), pp. 531-542 : 537

Harpactus ornatus F. Smith, 1856

Figures 18–20

Harpactus ornatus F. Smith 1856: 371 . Holotype or syntypes ♀, northern India: no specific locality (NHMUK).

Gorytes ornatus (F. Smith) , new combination by Pulawski 1985: 59–60.

Type material ( Images): Holotype ♂ / ♀? ( Figs 18–19 ), “ — Ind.(ia), pres.[ented] by Mrs. Farren White, Smith coll., 99-303, B.M. Type Hym. 21.1,495 ( NHMUK) NHMUK 012859084 —” gaster missing.

Diagnosis (from literature and partly from images). Brown with following parts of varying colour: ocellar enclosure brown-black; legs dark brown except mid and hind coxae black basally and ivory ventrally; wings light fusco-hyaline, marginal and submarginal cells shaded with fuscous; T1 apically with two semi-circular patches meeting medially; T2 with a wide bisinuate transverse band on apical margin; apical half of T5 yellowish white. Head shiny, almost impunctate, with moderately dense adpressed setae; POD 2.5× OOD; clypeus convex, widely emarginate mesally; pro- and mesothorax sparsely punctate, punctation obsolete under moderately dense setae; propodeal enclosure rugose, medial furrow with carinate margin in anterior two-thirds, obsolete beyond; mid and hind tibiae with numerous spines; hind tibia with long spur at apex. Gaster almost fusiform, slightly punctured, punctures on T2 sparse, closer on T3 and T4.

Figures

FIGURES 18–20. Harpactus ornatus F. Smith, 1856 Holotype ♂/♀? (abdomen missing) 18, type labels; 19, habitus, dorsal view; 20, habitus, lateral view.