Antodynerus flavescens flavescens ( Fabricius, 1775 )

Sheikh, Altaf Hussain, Kumar, P. Girish, Thomas, Moni & Bhandari, Rita, 2017, Taxonomic studies on Vespid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae) of Dumna Nature Park, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (3), pp. 198-198 : 198-

13. Antodynerus flavescens flavescens ( Fabricius, 1775)

1775. Vespa flavescens Fabricius , 370. Lectotype: Male, “ In India Orientali” ( ZMUC).

2013. Antodynerus flavescens flavescens ; Girish Kumar & Carpenter, 269, figures. 1-8.

Diagnosis: Female: Median area of propodeum with shallow narrow fovea from which median carina runs to orifice, without distinct transverse striae; posterolateral margin of propodeum rounded, without strong transversely carinate projection, below that with evanescent transverse striae; frons sparsely punctured, diameters of punctures less than distance between punctures; ocellar area almost smooth without punctures; vertex with moderately strong punctures except at middle and area towards occipital carina smooth.

Colour Description: Body brownish red with yellow, white and black marks. Usually brownish red colour mixed with yellow and white marks in many areas. Generally yellow colour as follows: mandible except at lateral and apical margins brown, basal and lateral sides of clypeus (rarely entirely yellow), interantennal space (rarely brown or black), inner and outer eye margins, lower sides of temple and occiput, ventral side of scape, tegula except inner white margin (sometimes entirely yellow or yellowish brown), T2 except at base black, S2 almost entirely. Generally white (sometimes whitish yellow) markings as follows: throughout pronotal carina, inner side of tegula, sides of scutellum, posterior side of metanotum, spot on mesopleuron below tegula. Black markings as follows: inner side of ocellar area (sometimes absent), basal area of tergites which more prominent on T2 and T3, area in between S1 and S2. Legs pale brown inter mixed with yellow. Wings hyaline with pterostigma and apex of median cell yellow and dark infumation at apex of radial cell.

Size (H+M+T1+T2): 9-11 mm.

Male: Antenna with last article hook-like, almost reaching to base of eleventh antennal segment in curved position; apical tip of aedeagus rounded, parallel spines elongate without hairs. Other characters almost same as in female.

Colour Description: Colour pattern almost same as that of female except clypeus entirely and transverse band at lower frons yellow.

Size (H+M+T1+T2): 8.5-9.5 mm.

Material examined: INDIA: Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur district, Dumna Nature Park , 7♀ & 5♂, 19.ix.2015, Coll. Altaf Hussain Sheikh.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh (new record), Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bangladesh.