Eumenes punctatus de Saussure, 1852

Sureshan, Pavittu M., 2017, A taxonomic review of the Indian species of the genus Eumenes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), Zootaxa 4317 (3), pp. 469-498 : 487-488

13. Eumenes punctatus de Saussure, 1852

(FigS 69–72)

Eumenes punctata de Saussure, 1852: 37 , ♀, ♂—“La Chine” (BMNH); Smith, 1857: 24 (cat.); Dalla Torre, 1894: 31 (cat.);? Bingham, 1897: 335 (key), 339, fig. 95 (Kumaun; Sikkim; Burma; Tenasserim); Rothney, 1903: 106 (Bengal); Dalla Torre, 1904: 24 (cat.); Wickwar, 1908: 118 (Ceylon); Dover & Rao, 1922: 237 ( punctatus ; Sikkim, common); Bequaert: 161 ( punctatus ; holotype is ♀); Liu, 1936: 100 (cat.); Giordani Soika, 1941: 142, fig. 1 (7), 2 (5) (= architectus sensu Yasumatsu 1938 [recte 1936]; in subgenus Eumenes ; China); van der Vecht & Fischer, 1972: 132 (cat.); Giordani Soika, 1976: 293; Yamane, 1987: 61 (Korea); Giordani Soika, 1982: 41; Yamane, 1990: 150; Kurzenko, 1995: 321; Kim & Yoon, 1996: 201; Kim & Yamane, 2001: 143 (key), 150, figs. 54-60, 69 (syn.: E. formosensis nigrior ; Russia; Korea; Japan); Srinivasan & Girish Kumar, 2010: 1318, image 8 ( punctatus ; India: Arunachal Pradesh); Zhou et al., 2012: 468 ( punctatus ; key); Yoon & Kim, 2014: 235, fig. 2B ( punctatus ; syn.: E. asioboreus Kim & Yamane ); 238 (key); Siddiqui et al, 2015: 505 (Pakistan: Punjab); Buyanjargal et al, 2016: 22 (Mongolia).

Eumenes coarctatus punctatus ; Dover, 1925: 292; Dover, 1929: 43 (Singapore; Sarawak); Dover, 1931: 252 (Malaya).

Eumenes architectus ; Yasumatsu, 1936: 1, 10, pl. 1 fig. 1; Kim, 1970: 547. Misidentification.

Eumenes pomiformis ; Kim, 1980: 107, pl. 15. Misidentification.

Eumenes coronatus ; Kurzenko, 1995: 321 [partim]; Kim & Yoon, 1996: 201.

Eumenes formosensis nigrior Giordani Soika, 1973b: 126 , ♂, ♀—“ China: Suifu, Szechuan” (USNM); Kim & Yamane, 2001: 139, 150 (syn. of E. punctatus ).

Eumenes nigrior ; Giordani Soika, 1982: 41.

Eumenes punctatus nigrior ; Giordani Soika, 1986a: 158 (China).

Eumenes asioboreus Kim & Yamane, 2001: 139 , 143 (key), 152, figs. 61-62, 70, ♀, ♂—“Campus of Yeongnam Univ., Kyeongsan, Korea” (holotype ♀ KEI; also from numerous other localities; and Russia.— Yoon & Kim, 2014: 232, 235, fig. 2A (syn. of E. punctatus de Saussure ).

Diagnosis. ♂. Punctation of T2 relatively coarse and not very dense (Fig. 72); T2, in profile (Fig. 71), only slightly Swollen in middle, weakly impreSSed preapically, itS apical margin Slightly reflected; T2 longer than wide in dorSal View, with hairS Very Short, mUch Shorter than baSal hairS of T1; tegUla withoUt emargination at lateral margin; T1 pear-Shaped, dilated poSterior part with almoSt parallel SideS in dorSal View; temple with hairS; pronotUm with UninterrUpted broad yellow tranSVerSe band (Fig. 70); Ventral Side of Scape yellow (Fig. 69); apical margin of T3- T4 with yellow markS.

Colour description. ♂. Body black with broad yellow and few brown to yellowiSh brown markingS. Yellow: apical half of mandible; clypeUS; mark on interantennal Space toUching eye; Scape Ventrally; narrow mark on temple; broad band on pronotUm; Spot on meSepiSternUm; baSal band on metanotUm; band on either Side of propodeUm; pair of roUnd SpotS on either Side of T1 at middle and narrow apical band, emarginate at middle; pair of large tranSVerSe mark at SUb baSe of T2 and broad apical band, emarginate at middle and Sharply narrowed towardS SideS; broad apical band on S2, Sharply narrowed towardS SideS; T3–T6 & S3–S6 with almoSt waVy apical bandS. LegS yellow except all coxa, all trochanterS, baSal half of fore and mid femora and hind femora almoSt entirely black. Brown to yellowiSh brown: Ventral Side of antennal flagellUm; tegUla; parategUla; propodeal ValVUla; pair of browniSh markS in the apical yellow band of T1. WingS almoSt hyaline with faint infUmation. HairS SilVery white. Body length: 10 mm.

Material examined. INDIA: Meghalaya, Ri Bhoi diStrict, Barapani , 1 ♂, 20.iV.1979, Coll. J.K. Jonathan & Party, ZSIK Regd. NoS. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8354.

Distribution. RUSSia (from SoUthern EUropean RUSSia to the Far EaSt); China: Hebei, KiangSU, SichUan; Mongolia; PakiStan; India: ArUnachal PradeSh, * Meghalaya, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, WeSt Bengal; Sri Lanka; Korea; Japan: TSUShima ISlandS.

Remarks. We StUdied a hUge collection of Eumenes SpecimenS for thiS paper from all oVer India, bUt foUnd only a Single Specimen of thiS SpecieS from Meghalaya ( India). We therefore conclUde that it iS not a common SpecieS in India. There are SeVeral referenceS cited with Indian recordS for thiS SpecieS inclUding SriniVaSan & GiriSh KUmar (2010), bUt we think it likely that at leaSt Some of them may be miSidentificationS.