Parancistrocerus assamensis Giordani
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 assamensis

description: 2. <i>Parancistrocerus assamensis</i> (Meade- Waldo, 1910) <i>Odynerus assamensis</i> Meade-Waldo, 1910: 103, male, female (in subgenus <i>Ancistrocerus</i>), “Shillong, Assam [= Shillong, Meghalaya]” (BMNH). <i>Ancistrocerus assamensis</i>; Giordani Soika, 1941: 235 (in subgenus <i>Ancistrocerus</i>; Burma, Carin Cheba). <i>Parancistrocerus assamensis</i>; Giordani Soika, 1994: 155 (key), 171 (Nepal; Vietnam); Gusenleitner, 2000: 940, fig. 1 (Laos); Gusenleitner, 2007: 99 (compared to <i>P. acclivus</i> Gusenleitner); Gusenleitner, 2011: 1358, fig. 7 (Laos); Gusenleitner, 2012: 1045 (compared to <i>P. insolitus</i> Gusenleitner). <b>Diagnosis</b>: <i>Female:</i> T2 reflexed at apex, which is preceded by narrow preapical groove; S2 strongly and sharply lowered at base, then nearly flat or even slightly depressed; clypeus about as long as wide, emarginate at apex, with apical teeth shortly carinate. <i> <i>Colour description</i>:</i> Body black with yellow and red markings. Yellow markings: spot at base and two small spots at apex of clypeus; small spot on lower frons above interantennal space. Red markings: ventral side of scape; anterior margin of pronotum; tegulae; large ovate spot on mesopleuron; metanotum; apical band on T1, T2 and S2; fore and mid tibiae. Wings clear hyaline, fuscous along costa. <i> <i>Male</i>:</i> Clypeus about as long as wide, more closely emarginate at apex than in female, almost regularly convex; apical antennal article of male weakly arched, gradually narrowed from base to apex, and reaches to base of 11th article. <i>Length</i> (H+M+T1+T2): Female &amp; Male, 6-6.5 mm. <b>Distribution</b>: India: Meghalaya; Myanmar; Laos; Vietnam. Nepal; <b>Remarks</b>: No specimens were available for our studies, hence the description was taken from Meade-Waldo (1910) and Giordani Soika (1941, 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 140, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.192283
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