Paraleptomenes miniatus

Kumar, Girish P., Carpenter, James M. & Sharma, Gaurav, 2014, A review of the genus Paraleptomenes Giordani Soika, 1970 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Odynerini) from the Indian subcontinent, with the description of a new species from the eastern Himalayas, Zootaxa 3802 (1), pp. 131-143 : 137

4. Paraleptomenes miniatus (de Saussure, 1855)

Diagnosis. Punctation on T1, T2 & S2 normal, not very coarse and thick; maximum width of T1 0.90–1.10x its median length (Fig. 14); scutellum convex; metanotum oblique; clypeus long and pyriform, margined off by a carina on each side and longitudinally rugoso-striate between the carinae.

There are three subspecies: P. miniatus mephitis ( Cameron, 1901) , P. miniatus miniatus (de Saussure, 1855) and P. miniatus nigrithorax Giordani Soika, 1994 .