Eumenes belli Giordani Soika, 1973

Qin, Jiong, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2023, Additions to the knowledge of the genus Eumenes Latreille, 1802 from China (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96, pp. 697-714 : 697

Eumenes belli Giordani Soika, 1973 new record

Figs 31-37

Eumenes belli Giordani Soika, 1973: 125; 1986a: 82; Girish Kumar et al. 2017: 477.

Material examined.

1♀, China, Yunnan Province, Lincang City, Shuangjiang County, Mengling Village , Nangong River , 23°23'13"N, 99°47'04"E, 1050 m, 2019.vi.3, Huachuan Wang (CNU) .

Diagnosis.

Female. Body length 12.1 mm. Body black, with yellow markings (Fig. 31 ): ocular sinus, interantennal spot, gena, three separated narrow transverse bands on pronotum, mesoscutum spot, metanotum separated spots, parategula (Fig. 36 ) and apical band of T1; body with setae sparse and short; clypeus entirely black, sparsely punctate, longer than wide, with short setae (Fig. 32 ); dorsal view (Figs 34 , 35 ), T1 densely punctate, very long, slender, length of T1 longer than 4 × its apical width and abruptly swollen before middle, lateral margins of postpetiole substraight and parallel, not swollen in apical part; T2 densely punctate, punctures obviously larger than those of T1, apical lamella of T2 reflex and obviously depressed in the middle (Fig. 37 ); lateral view (Fig. 33 ), basal angle of metasomal segment 2 acute, T2 not swollen in the middle, obviously depressed in its preapical part; wings pale brown.

Male. (in Girish Kumar et al. 2017). Body length: 10.5-11.5 mm. Sculpture, punctuation, setae, and coloration similar to female, including clypeus entirely black.

Distribution.

China (Yunnan); India.

Figures

Figures 31 - 37. Eumenes belli Giordani Soika, 1973. ♀ 31 habitus (dorsal view) 32 clypeus (frontal view) 33 metasomal segments 2 - 6 (lateral view) 34 T 2 (dorsal view) 35 T 1 (dorsal view) 36 head and pronotum (dorsal view) 37 lamella of T 2 apical margin (dorsal view).