Eumenes atrophicus  1798
Creators: name: Sureshan, Pavittu M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Eumenes
Eumenes atrophicus

description: 4. Eumenes atrophicus (Fabricius, 1798)
(FigS 17–24)
Vespa atrophica Fabricius, 1798: 264 ♀—“In India orientali” (UZMC).
Polistes atrophica; Fabricius, 1804: 280; de Saussure, 1854: 247 (unidentified species; Eumenes?); Dalla Torre, 1894: 123 (cat.); Dalla Torre, 1904: 71 (atrophicus; cat.); Schulz, 1912: 86 (type examined; identical to E. architectus Smith, 1859 [misidentification]).
Icaria (?) atrophica; de Saussure, 1853: 42 (unidentified species).
Eumenes compressus de Saussure, 1855: 142, ♂ —“? Probablement l’Amérique” (MP); de Saussure, 1875: 105; van der Vecht, 1981: 454 (syn. of E. atrophicus (Fabricius).
Eumenes atrophica; Schulz, 1912: 101 (list); van der Vecht, 1959: 235, fig. 1 (a-e) (atrophicus; redescription of type); van der Vecht, 1981: 443 (atrophicus; syns.: E. compressus de Saussure, E. citreolineatus Giordani Soika); Gusenleitner, 1987: 269 (atrophicus; Nepal); Gusenleitner, 1988: 182 (atrophicus; Thailand); Gusenleitner, 2006: 693 (atrophicus; India: Garo Hills, Kalimpong, Karad, Madurai, Malampuzha, Melli Bazar, Bageshwar); Nguyen, 2015: 564, 567, 571 (key) (atrophicus; Vietnam); 2016: 587 (atrophicus; key); Pannure et al., 2016: 19 (atrophicus).
Eumenes citreolineatus Giordani Soika, 1941: 135 (key), 149, fig. 5, ♀, ♂ (in subgenus Eumenes)—“Siam, Muok-Lek, 1000m ” (MVEN); also from Hong Kong; Burma; Giordani Soika, 1973a: 25; van der Vecht, 1981: 455 (syn. of E. atrophicus (Fabricius)); Borsato & Ratti, 1999: 72 (list).
Diagnosis. ♀ (Figs 17–21). Punctures on T2 relatively coarse and not very dense (Fig. 21); T2, in profile view, only Slightly Swollen in middle, weakly impreSSed preapically, and apical margin Slightly reflected (Fig. 17); T2 mUch longer than wide (4:3) in dorSal View (Fig. 21); tegUla withoUt emargination at lateral margin; T2 with hairS Very Short, mUch Shorter than thoSe at baSe of T1 (Fig. 17); T1 pear-Shaped, dilated poSterior part with almoSt parallel SideS in dorSal View (Fig. 20); temple with hairS.
Colour description. ♀. Black with yellow markings. Yellow: mushroom-shaped spot between antennae; short line on temple; rarely a baSal band or two SpotS on clypeUS; three well Separated tranSVerSe markS on pronotUm; mark on tegUlae (USUally abSent); Short tranSVerSe line on lateral areaS of ScUtellUm (SometimeS abSent); tranSVerSe line on metanotUm (SometimeS abSent); Spot on meSepiSternUm (USUally abSent); SpotS on propodeUm (USUally abSent); narrow apical bandS on T1, T2 & S2 (band on S2 narrowly interrUpted on each Side; rarely band on T2 interrUpted at SideS); rarely Small SpotS on T2 baSo-laterally. MandibleS browniSh at apex; tegUlae brown with black baSe (rarely poSteriorly yellow); legS browniSh black; fore and mid femora with Small yellow Spot at apex; fore tibia browniSh with irregUlar yellow line anteriorly; mid tibiae browniSh at extreme baSe; wingS fUSco-hyaline. Body length: 10-11 mm.
Ƌ (FigS 22–24). Apical antennal article hook-like, pointed tip reaching middle of 10th article in cUrVed poSition (Fig. 22). ColoUr Similar to ♀ except clypeUS entirely yellow (rarely lateral marginS black). Body length: 10-11 mm.
Material examined. INDIA: ArUnachal PradeSh, WeSt Kameng diStrict, SeSSa, 1 ♂, 7.ix.1998, Coll. A.R. Lahiri & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8256; Upper Siang district, Geku, 1 ♂, 17.ix.2002, Coll. M. Sil & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8257. ASSam, Goalpara diStrict, Darranggiri, 1 ♂, 30.iV.1979, Coll. J.K. Jonathan & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8258; North Cachar Hills district, Dehangi, 1 ♀, 23-24.V.1979, Coll. S.B. Roy & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8259; Karbi Anglong diStrict, Garampani, 1 ♂, 19.ix.1979, Coll. C. RadhakriShnan, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8260. ChhattiSgarh, Kabirdham diStrict, Bhoramdeo Wildlife SanctUary, BUdha foreSt, 1 ♀, 24.xi.2011, Coll. Anil & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8261; Kabirdham district, Bhoramdeo Wildlife Sanctuary, Nagdhara Nalla, 1 ♀, 28.xi.2011, Coll. Anil & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8262. Meghalaya, EaSt Garo HillS diStrict, SongSak, 8 ♂, 5-6.V.1979, Coll. J.K. Jonathan & Party, ZSIK Regd. NoS. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8263–8270. Mizoram, KolaSib diStrict, Thingdawl, 1 ♂, 22.i.1995, Coll. T.K. Pal & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R- INV.8271. Sikkim, exact collection locality Unknown, 1 ♀ & 2 ♂, Vii-Viii. 1897, Coll. DUdgeon, ZSIK Regd. NoS. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8272–8274; East Sikkim district, Deorali, 1 ♂, 23.ix.1978, Coll. A.N.T. Joseph & Party, ZSIK Regd. NoS. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8275. TripUra, North TripUra diStrict, Dharmnagar, 1 ♂, 1.V.1978, Coll. J.K. Jonathan & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8276. WeSt Bengal, Howrah diStrict, ChandrapUr, 1 ♀, 25.V.1994, Coll. S.K. GUpta & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8277; Kolkata diStrict, SoUthern Avenue, 4 ♀, 16-23.xii.2012, Coll. P. Girish Kumar, ZSIK Regd. Nos. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8278–8281; S-24 ParganaS diStrict, SUnderbanS BioSphere ReSerVe, Jibantala, 1 ♂, 30.Vii.2013, Coll. GaUraV Sharma & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8282; Nadia district, Taherpur, 1 ♂, 16.xi.2014, Coll. P.C. Mazumdar, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8283; Kolkata district, Southern Avenue, 1 ♀, 3.iii.2015, Coll. P. Girish Kumar, ZSIK Regd. NoS. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8284.
Distribution. India: * ArUnachal PradeSh, * ASSam, * ChhattiSgarh, Kerala, MaharaShtra, Meghalaya, * Mizoram, Sikkim, Tamil NadU, * TripUra, Uttarakhand, WeSt Bengal; Nepal; Myanmar; Thailand; LaoS; Vietnam; China: Hong Kong.
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 475-476, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/884738