Eumenes affinissimus de Saussure 1852
Creators: name: Sureshan, Pavittu M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Eumenes
Eumenes affinissimus

description: 1. Eumenes affinissimus de Saussure, 1852
(FigS 1–8)
Eumenes affinissima de Saussure, 1852: 37, ♂—“Indes Orientales” (OUM); Smith, 1873: 371 (cat.);? Bingham, 1897: 335 (key), 340 (affinissima; syn.: Eumenes mainpuriensis Smith; ♀; Mainpuri; Tenasserim); Paiva, 1907: 15 (Mussoorie); Dutt, 1912: 229, pl. 13, fig. 9-11 (E. “ affinissima var.” nest: single cells on branches of Tamarix sp.); Dover & Rao, 1922: 237 (Mussorie; Simla Hills; “Rajshahi, East Bengal” [= Rajshahi, Bangladesh]); Dover, 1925 (1924): 292 (variety of Eumenes pomiformis (Fabricius)); von Schulthess, 1935: 299 (Java); Giordani Soika, 1960: 159 (key); Gusenleitner, 2006: 693 (affinisimus; syn.: E. coelestimontanus Kostylev; India: Ladakh); Nugroho et al., 2012: 93 (list); Oehlke, 2012: 597 (Kyrgyzstan; China; Mongolia).
? Eumenes pomiformis var. affinissima; Maindron, 1882: 268 (Borneo; cat.); Dalla Torre, 1894: 30 (cat.); Dalla Torre, 1904: 24 (cat.); Dover, 1931: 252 (Malaya).
Eumenes coelestimontana Kostylev, 1940: 140, ♀, ♂ (in subgenus Eumenes) [Kyrgyzstan] “Rivière Petite Almatinka, Tianchan, Alatau Transilien” (holotype ♀ ZMM); Gusenleitner, 1972: 71 (key), 87; van der Vecht & Fischer, 1972: 126 (cat.); Gusenleitner, 2006: 693 (coelestimontanus; syn. of E. affinissimus de Saussure).
Diagnosis. ♀ (Figs 1–5). S2 with many whitish hairs, about as long as those on T2; punctures on T2 very small and SparSe, interSpaceS mUch larger than diameter of pUnctUreS (Fig. 5); T1 of normal length (3 mm), poStpetiolUS Sharply and Strongly broadened (pear-Shaped) (Fig. 4); temple with hairS; clypeUS with SparSe pUnctUreS of mediUm thickneSS; head, meSoSoma, T1 and T2 with long whitiSh hairS (FigS 3, 4, 5).
Colour description. ♀. Body black with yellow markingS. Yellow: interrUpted (SometimeS entire) mark at baSe of clypeUS extending to lateral SideS and two Small SpotS at apex (SometimeS abSent); linear mark on interantennal Space toUching the clypeUS; Small linear mark on temple towardS Vertex; wide band on pronotUm; Spot on meSepiSternUm; metanotUm; one Upper roUnded Spot and one lower elongate lateral patch on propodeUm (SometimeS both markingS abSent); tegUlae (except black to blackiSh brown median area); apex of all femora; all tibia; apical band on T1, inVaginated at middle; baSal tranSVerSe Spot at SideS and almoSt regUlar, narrowed at middle and at SideS, apical band on T2; S2 with narrow apical band broadened at middle; narrow bandS, more or leSS regUlar, at the apex of T1-T4 (SometimeS VagUe poStero-median Spot on T5 alSo) and S3-S5. WingS almoSt hyaline, Slightly infUmated. Body length: 12-13 mm.
Ƌ (FigS 6–8). Apical antennal article long with broad baSe and Sharply pointed apex, reaching to middle of 10th article in cUrVed poSition (Fig. 8); clypeUS elongate and clypeal apex Strongly emarginate (Fig. 7). ColoUr Similar to that of ♀ except clypeus entirely yellow, narrow apical yellow spot on T5 and band on S6 also; apical antennal article ferrUginoUS. Body length: 10.5 mm.
Material examined. INDIA: JammU & KaShmir, Ganderbal diStrict, Sonamarg, Alt. 9000 ft., 1 ♂, 17- 23.vi.1921, Coll. Unknown, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8285; Leh district, Liktsey, 1 ♀, 7.viii.2008, Coll. S.I. Kazmi, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8286. Uttarakhand, DehradUn diStrict, MUSSoorie, 2 ♀, 20.V.1905, Coll. BrUnetti, ZSIK Regd. NoS. ZSI/WGRS/I.R-INV.8287 & 8288. PAKISTAN: PUnjab, Rawalpindi diStrict, MUrree, 1 ♀, 9.ix.1928, Coll. H.S. PrUthi, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8289.
Distribution. India: Himachal PradeSh, JammU & KaShmir; Uttarakhand; KyrgyzStan; * PakiStan; BangladeSh; MalaySia; IndoneSia: JaVa; China; Mongolia.
description: Published as part of Sureshan, Pavittu M., 2017, A taxonomic review of the Indian species of the genus Eumenes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), pp. 469-498 in Zootaxa 4317 (3) on pages 471-472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/884738