Tiphia (Tiphia) rufofemorata Smith, 1855

Hanima, Raveendran K. P., Kumar, Girish & Hegde, Vishwanath D., 2022, Additions to the knowledge on the genus Tiphia Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Tiphiinae) from India with the description of ten new species, Zootaxa 5204 (1), pp. 1-106 : 91

36. Tiphia (Tiphia) rufofemorata Smith, 1855

( Figs 475–485 )

Tiphia rufofemorata Smith, 1855: 83 . Holotype, ♀, Norther India (NHMUK); Bingham, 1897: 57, 58; Bingham, 1906: 36; Turner, 1909: 482.

Tiphia cassiope Cameron, 1897: 48 ; Bingham, 1897: 57, 59.

Tiphia (Tiphia) rufofemorata ; Allen, 1969: 410; Allen, 1975: 79, 80.

Material examined. 1♀, INDIA: Uttarakhand, Tehri Garhwal district, Kanatal (30°24′43″N & 78°20′34″E, 2297m), 20.vii.2019, Coll. P. Girish Kumar & Party, ( ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.16674 ; 1♀, Dehradun district, Asarori (30°15′02″N & 77°58′50″E, 715m), 25.viii.2009, Coll. Sudhir Singh, ( ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.16675 .

Diagnosis. Body length 11.3 mm. Apex of clypeal lobe slightly emarginated ( Fig. 477 ); lateral side of pronotum with weakly developed transdiscal groove ( Fig. 480 ); dorsal side of propodeum with elongate rectangular shaped areola with length 3.5 × apical width ( Fig. 479 ); median carina of areola short, 1/3 of total length of areola ( Fig. 479 ); tegula only slightly longer than middle width ( Fig. 479 ); fore wing slightly infumate ( Fig. 483 ); femora of mid and hind legs red ( Fig. 478 ); hind basitarsus with deep narrow groove ( Fig. 482 ); Gt 1 without anterior transverse carina ( Fig. 484 ).

Variations. The specimens examined here differ in the measurements of areola and shape of areola compared to the description of Allen (1975). Areola rectangular shaped and length 3.5 × apical width in the specimens examined, while areola slightly tapered and length almost 4 × apical width according to Allen.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. India: Uttarakhand.

Figures

FIGURES 475–485. Tiphia (Tiphia) rufofemorata Smith, ♀. 475. Habitus, lateral view; 476. Head, frontal view; 477. Clypeus; 478. Habitus, dorsal view; 479. Mesosoma, dorsal view; 480. Mesosoma, lateral view; 481. Antenna; 482. Inner surface of hind basitarsus showing groove; 483. Forewing, dorsal view; 484. Metasoma, dorsal view; 485. Metasoma, lateral view.