Sceliphron isaaci Jha & Farooqi, 1995

Anagha, S., Kumar, P. Girish, Binoy, C., Mazumdar, P. C. & Sureshan, P. M., 2021, A review of the mud-dauber wasps of genus Sceliphron Klug (Hymenoptera Sphecidae) from India, Zootaxa 4969 (1), pp. 61-85 : 81

1. Sceliphron isaaci Jha & Farooqi, 1995

Sceliphron isaaci Jha & Farooqi, 1995: 13 , ♀, ♂. Holotype: ♀, India: Andaman Islands : Port Blair: North Bay (repository?).

Diagnosis. Female. Frons with fine longitudinal diverging striation mixed with punctures; clypeus apico-medially incised with lateral incisions (see Fig. 5 of Jha & Farooqi (1995: 14)); pronotal collar notched in middle, transversely finely striate, side punctate; mesoscutum finely striate, transverse anteriorly and oblique posteriorly; scutellum longitudinally striate; metanotum with fine sparse punctuation; propodeal enclosure with longitudinal depression in middle; mesopleuron punctate; petiole yellow.

Male. Resembles female in general morphology, clypeus similar as in pictum but lobes more pronounced (See Fig. 4 of Jha & Farooqi (1995: 14)); lobes of collar more pronounced with front surface rather densely striate; metanotum narrow, longitudinally and roughly striate; petiole longer than in female.

Distribution. India: Andaman Islands ( Jha & Farooqi 1995; Pulawski 2021).

Figures

FIGURES 1–9. Sceliphron coromandelicum (Lepeletier), 1–7 ♀. 1. Habitus, lateral view; 2. Head, frontal view; 3. Fore wing; 4. Mesosoma, dorsal view; 5. Mesosoma, lateral view; 6. Metasoma, dorsal view; 7. Apical metasomal sterna; 8–9 ♂. 8. Head, frontal view; 9. Metasoma, dorsal view.