Parancistrocerus rhipheus (Cameron)
Creators: name: P. Girish Kumar
name: J. M. Carpenter
name: P. M. Sureshan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Parancistrocerus
Parancistrocerus rhipheus

description: 10. <i>Parancistrocerus rhipheus</i> (Cameron, 1904) <i>Odynerus rhipheus</i> Cameron, 1904: 308, female, “Darjeeling” (BMNH); Meade-Waldo, 1910: 103 (in subgenus <i>Ancistrocerus</i>; notes on type; related to <i>A</i>. <i>assamensis</i>). <i>Ancistrocerus rhipheus</i>; Giordani Soika, 1941: 235. <i>Parancistrocerus rhipheus</i>; Giordani Soika, 1994: 136 (key), 156 (key), 172; Gusenleitner, 2011: 1359 (Laos). <b>Diagnosis</b>: <i>Female:</i> T1 slightly wider than long, subquadrate and strongly carinate at base; front face of T1 without median vertical carina on its upper half; S2 strongly and sharply lowered at base, then wide and almost entirely depressed; T2 approximately as wide as long, slightly wider at base than at apex, apical margin very slightly reflexed; clypeus as wide as long; tempora well developed, in dorsal view appearing about as long as upper lobes of eyes; pronotal carina present only laterally up to humeri; mesepisternum with epicnemial carina well developed; posterior face of propodeum oblique, entirely concave; clypeus with dense punctures, medium thickness, interspaces on average less than diameter of punctures; punctures on frons and vertex slightly smaller, bigger and thicker; punctures of dorsal face of propodeum big, irregular, shallow and flat bottomed, interspaces slightly carinate; posterior face of propodeum smooth, finely wrinkled; T1 thickly punctured, with punctures much bigger than those of mesosoma, interspaces mostly carinate; punctures of T2 equally large, but much more widely spaced, only at apex with slightly thicker punctures; punctures of S2 similar to those of T2, but considerably more spaced. <i> <i>Colour description</i>:</i> Body black with red markings. Red portions: spot on frons above interantennal space; mark on tempora; band on pronotum; small spot on mesepisternum; parategulae; apical band on T1 which narrowed at sides; relatively wide regular bands on T2 and S2. Legs and tegulae completely black. Wings infumate, especially along coast. <b>Distribution</b>: India: West Bengal; Laos. <b>Remarks</b>: No specimens were available for our studies, hence the description was taken from Giordani Soika (1994).
description: Published as part of <i>P. Girish Kumar, J. M. Carpenter &amp; P. M. Sureshan, 2016, A taxonomic review of the genus Parancistrocerus Bequaert (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from the Indian subcontinent with the description of three new species, pp. 36-156 in Halteres 7 (1)</i> on page 150, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.192283
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