Parapolybia albida Saito-Morooka, Nguyen & Kojima

Saito-Morooka, Fuki, Nguyen, Lien T. P. & Kojima, Jun-Ichi, 2015, Review of the paper wasps of the Parapolybia indica species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae) in eastern parts of Asia, Zootaxa 3947 (2), pp. 215-235 : 232

Parapolybia albida Saito-Morooka, Nguyen & Kojima , sp. nov.

( Figs 70–75 )

Diagnosis. This species is similar in the external morphology with P. nana sp. nov., but can be easily distinguished from other species of the P. i nd i c a species-group by the presence of paired dark brown spots on female clypeus ( Fig. 70 ) and ivory white body ground color.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♀, VIETNAM: Thanh My, Thanh Chuong, Nghe An Prov., 28.v.2008, L.T.P. Nguyen [ IEBR]. PARATYPES: VIETNAM: Vinh Phuc: 1 ♀ [ IEBR], Ngoc Thanh, Me Linh, 13–14.v.2013, L.T.P. Nguyen; Lang Son: 1 ♀ [ IEBR / IUNH], Na Tan, Binh Gia, 3.vi.2014, L.T.P. Nguyen; Hai Phong: 2 ♀ [ IEBR], Cat Ba, Cat Hai, 20°47'36''N, 106°59'25''E, 25.vii.2013, L.T.P. Nguyen & D.D. Nguyen; Nahe An: 6 ♀ [ IEBR], same collection data as holotype.

Description. FEMALE. Body length 13.5 mm; fore wing length 12.5 mm. Head in frontal view slightly wider than high ( Fig. 71 ). Gena narrow, invisible in frontal view of head ( Fig. 71 ), in lateral view 0.7 × as wide as eye ( Fig. 72 ). Ocelli close to each other ( Fig. 73 ); distance between anterior and posterior ocelli rarely longer than half of Od; POD less than Od; anterior ocellus diameter 0.2 mm, as large as Od; OOD 1.5 × as large as Od. T1 slender (about 3.5 mm long, Figs 74–75 ), posteriorly weakly swollen, 3.0 × longer than the maximum height, 3.0 × as long as its own maximum width.

Color. Ground color ivory white. Following parts brown to dark brown: scape and pedicel dorsally, anterior margin of clypeus, paired spots on clypeus ( Fig. 70 ), teeth of mandible, narrow U-shaped mark in suproclypeal area, frons (light brown), vertex, dosal area of pronotal collar, narrow band along posterodorsal margin of pronotum, median furrow of mesopleuron, mesoscutum except for paired longitudinal yellow bands, anterior margin, median line and dorsolateral lines of propodeum, dorsal side and posterior margin of T1, margin and arrow-shaped mark on T2, margin and posteromedial area of T3–T6, posterior margin and posteromedial spot of S2–S5. Legs grey; dorsal half of mid and hind trochanters, dorsobasal one-third of hind femur, tarsi, brown to dark brown. Wings semi-hyaline, pale brown.

MALE. Unknown.

Etymology. The specific name is a Latin adjective albidus, with reference to the body coloration.

Distribution. Vietnam (North Vietnam).

Figures

FIGURES 65 – 75. Parapolybia nana sp. nov. and P. albida sp. nov. 65 – 69. P. nana sp. nov., ♀. 65, 66. Head (65. Frontal view, 66. Lateral view). 67. Ocelli, dorsal view. 68, 69. T 1 (68. Lateral view, 69. Dorsal view). 70 – 75. P. albida sp. nov., ♀. 70, 71, 75. Head (70, 75. Frontal view, 71. Lateral view). 72. Ocelli, dorsal view. 73, 74. T 1 (73. Lateral view, 74. Dorsal view). Scale 1 mm.