Orientalicesa confasciatus Tan and Carpenter. This 2018
Creators: name: Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong
name: Bozdoğan, Hakan
name: Kumar, P. Girish
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Orientalicesa
Orientalicesa confasciatus

description: Orientalicesa confasciatus Tan and Carpenter, 2018 (Figs 1–5)
Orientalicesa confasciatus Tan and Carpenter, 2018, in Tan et al., ZooKeys 740: 109, 137. Replacement name.
Stenodyneriellus rangpocus Kumar, Carpenter and Kishore, 2017: 179 -181, figs 15-18, female “ Sikkim, East Sikkim district, Rangpo” (India), syn. nov.
Orientalicesa unifasciata; Koçak and Kemal, 2010, CESA Misc. Pap.151: 4.
Kennethia unifasciata; Giordani Soika, 1994, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. “G. Doria” 90: 291 (key), 292, fig. 66 (Taiwan; China).
Allorhynchium unifasciatus; Giordani Soika, 1986, Boll. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Venezia 35: 141 (China).
Odynerus (Lionotus) unifasciatus von Schulthess, 1934, Arb. morph. tax. Ent. BerlinDahlem, 1, 1: 75, female. Junior primary homonym of Odynerus unifasciatus de Saussure, 1852.
Material examined. VIETNAM: 1♀, (deposited in IEBR): Phia Oac NP, Nguyen Binh, Cao Bang, 22°34'14.2''N,
105°52'41.5''E, alt. 1000 m, 9.viii.2012, coll. J. Kojima, H. Nugroho, L.T.P. Nguyen; 1♀, (deposited in IEBR): Cham
Chu NR, Ham Yen, Tuyen Quang, 22°10'47.1''N, 105°1'20.3''E 26.x.2018, L.T.P. Nguyen, C.Q. Nguyen, T.V. Luong;
INDIA: 1 ♀ (deposited in ZSI): Sikkim, East Sikkim district, Rangpo, 12.iv.1994, coll. P.H. Roy & Party, NZC Regd.
No. 15447/H3.
This species has been recorded in China, Laos, and is newly recorded in Vietnam.
Kumar et al. (2017) described a new species of the genus Stenodyneriellus Giordani Soika, 1962, namely S. rangpocus Kumar, Carpenter & Kishore, 2017 based on only one specimen, the holotype from Sikkim, India. Carefully examining the specimen, we concluded that it does not belong in the genus Stenodyneriellus Giordani Soika, but Orientalicesa Koçak and Kemal, namely O. confasciatus Tan and Carpenter. Even though the species has the forewing with its prestigma about half the length of the pterostigma (like in Stenodyneriellus), it has cephalic foveae in female (no cephalic fovea in female of Stenodyneriellus), and it also has the palpal formula 5:3 (palpal formula 6: 4 in Stenodyneriellus). Other characteristics of the species fit well with the description in Kumar et al. (2017: 179-181) such as the shapes of clypeus, propodeum, and metasomal terga (Figs 1, 3, 4). Below we give some more characteristics of Orientalicesa confasciatus that did not occur in the description by Kumar et al. (2017):
Female vertex with cephalic foveae large, bearing a lot of dense pubescence, situated far from each other, about the distance between two posterior ocelli; depression for cephalic foveae conspicuous, large, hook-shaped (Fig. 2). Distance from posterior ocelli to apical margin of vertex long, more than 2.4 × distance from posterior ocelli to inner eye margin (Fig. 2). Gena much narrower than eye, in lateral view about 0.6 × as wide as eye. Metasoma with the lateral margins of terga 2 – 4 clearly marginalized (Fig. 5).
Distribution. China, Laos, Vietnam (new record), India (new record).
description: Published as part of Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, Bozdoğan, Hakan, Kumar, P. Girish & Carpenter, James M., 2018, A new record of the genus Orientalicesa Koçak & Kemal, 2010 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Vietnam, pp. 594-596 in Zootaxa 4532 (4) on pages 595-596, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4532.4.9, http://zenodo.org/record/2615743