Apodynerus icarioides (Bingham)

Nugroho, Hari, Kojima, Jun-ichi & Ubaidillah, Rosichon, 2014, Synonymy of the potter wasp genus Philippodynerus Gusenleitner (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) with Apodynerus Giordani Soika, with taxonomic notes on Apodynerus species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 36, pp. 131-151 : 137

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scientific name

Apodynerus icarioides (Bingham)
status

 

Apodynerus icarioides (Bingham) Figs 14 View Figures 11–18 , 18 View Figures 11–18 , 19 View Figures 19–29 , 24 View Figures 19–29 , 29 View Figures 19–29

Odynerus icarioides Bingham, 1897: 363 (in key to aculeates of British India), 372, ♀, “Tenasserim”, type (BMNH).

Diagnosis.

This species can be distinguished from other species of Apodynerus by the combination of the following characters: head in frontal view subcircular, slightly wider than high, 1.1 × as wide as high; female clypeus in frontal view wider than high, 1.3 × as wide as high, with dorsal and ventral margins distinctly emarginate medially ( Fig. 14 View Figures 11–18 ); male clypeus in frontal view proportionally narrower than that of female, 1.15 × as wide as high ( Fig. 18 View Figures 11–18 ); gena wide ( Fig. 19 View Figures 19–29 ); metanotum obtusely dentiform; metasomal tergum I stout, in lateral view swollen dorsally from base to mid-length, then moderately concave preapically ( Fig. 24 View Figures 19–29 ); metasomal tergum II in lateral view slightly convex dorsally ( Fig. 24 View Figures 19–29 ).

Material examined.

INDONESIA: Kalimantan: 2 ♀, Bukit Soeharto, East Kalimantan, 3, 23 Feb.1998, H. Makihara (FFPRI); 1 ♀, Mentawir River, about 50 m, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Oct.1950, A.M.R. Wegner (MZB); 1 ♂, Kayan Mentarang Nature Reserve, Pujungan, East Kalimantan, Apr.1993, D.C. Darling & R. Ubaidillah (MZB).

Remarks.

This species shows a disjunct distribution pattern, occurring in India and Myanmar, and on Borneo. Van der Vecht (1937) examined the type and provided a diagnosis for this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Apodynerus