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

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36. Tiphia (Tiphia) rufofemorata Smith, 1855

( Figs 475–485 View FIGURES 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 GoogleMaps ; 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 GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Body length 11.3 mm. Apex of clypeal lobe slightly emarginated ( Fig. 477 View FIGURES 475–485 ); lateral side of pronotum with weakly developed transdiscal groove ( Fig. 480 View FIGURES 475–485 ); dorsal side of propodeum with elongate rectangular shaped areola with length 3.5 × apical width ( Fig. 479 View FIGURES 475–485 ); median carina of areola short, 1/3 of total length of areola ( Fig. 479 View FIGURES 475–485 ); tegula only slightly longer than middle width ( Fig. 479 View FIGURES 475–485 ); fore wing slightly infumate ( Fig. 483 View FIGURES 475–485 ); femora of mid and hind legs red ( Fig. 478 View FIGURES 475–485 ); hind basitarsus with deep narrow groove ( Fig. 482 View FIGURES 475–485 ); Gt 1 without anterior transverse carina ( Fig. 484 View FIGURES 475–485 ).

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.

References

Allen, H. W. (1969) Redescriptions of types of Tiphiinae from Asia, Africa, Oceania in the British Museum (NH) and at Oxford University. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 95, 353 - 438.

Allen, H. W. (1975) The genus Tiphia of the Indian Subcontinent. Bulletin of United States Department of Agriculture, 1509, 1 - 96, 6 pls.

Bingham, C. T. (1897) The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma: Hymenoptera, 1 (Wasps and Bees). s. n., London, 579 pp., 189 figs., 4 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 100738

Bingham, C. T. (1906) Report on the Aculeate Hymenoptera. Malayenses Zoology Fasciculi, 3, 36.

Cameron, P. (1897) Hymenoptera Orientalia, or Contributions to a Knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Oriental Zoological Region, Part 5. Manchester Society Memoirs, 41, 44 - 51.

Smith, F. (1855) Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 3. Mutillidae and Pompilidae, London, 497 pp.

Turner, R. E. (1909) Remarks on some genera of the Scoliidae, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 3, 476 - 486. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930908692612

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.