Harpactus vividus ( Turner, 1917 )

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 : 540-541

Harpactus vividus ( Turner, 1917)

Figures 31–35

Arpactus vividus Turner 1917: 183 . Holotype: ♂, Pakistan: Punjab, Lahore (NHMUK).

Dienoplus vividus (Turner) , new combination by Bohart & Menke 1976: 496.

Harpactus vividus , new combination by Pulawski 1985: 59–60.

Type material ( Images): Holotype ♂ ( Figs 30–33 ), Pakistan “— Punjab, Lahore. Leg. G.R. Dutt, 19.iv.(19)08, B.M. Type Hym. 21.1,497, 1915/323 ( NHMUK) NHMUK 012859083 —”

Diagnosis (from literature and partly from images). Brown-black with following varyingly coloured parts: pronotum and mesoscutum red-brown; antenna and legs yellow-brown; inner eye margin and clypeus yellow; propodeum entirely black; lateral spot on T2 yellow. Eyes very slightly convergent towards clypeus; head shiny, minutely and sparsely punctate. Mesosoma shiny, with few fine scattered punctures, scutellum with anterior margin crenulate; mesopleuron smooth, sparsely punctate. Propodeal enclosure well defined and coarsely longitudinally striate, remaining propodeum coarsely, irregularly obliquely striate. T1 short and broad, smooth, shiny, immaculate; T2 smooth, finely and sparsely punctate, with oval ivory patch laterally; remaining segments closely and minutely punctate, immaculate.

Distribution. Pakistan (Lahore) ( Turner 1917).

Figures

FIGURES 31–35. Harpactus vividus (Turner, 1917) Holotype ♂ 31, type labels; 32, habitus, lateral view; 33, head, frontal view; 34, habitus, dorsal view; 35, metapostnotum, propodeum and metasoma, dorsal view.

FIGURES 21–30. Harpactus pulawskii Binoy & Girish Kumar, sp. nov. Holotype ♀ 21, habitus, lateral view; 22, head, dorsal view; 23, head, frontal view; 24, head and pronotum, lateral view; 25, mesosoma, lateral view; 26, mesosoma, dorsal view; 27, metapostnotum; 28, wings; 29, metasoma, dorsal view; 30, metasoma, lateral view.