Dasyproctus pentheri Leclercq 1956

Binoy, C., Kumar, P. Girish & Santhosh, S., 2021, Review of Indian Dasyproctus Lepeletier & Brullé 1835 (Hymenoptera Crabronidae) with description of four new species, Zootaxa 4991 (3), pp. 467-498 : 491

11. Dasyproctus pentheri Leclercq 1956

Dasyproctus pentheri Leclercq 1956: 160 . ♂ corrected: ♀ Leclercq, 1957: 55.

Diagnosis. (based on the original description, as no specimen was available for study).

Female. Body length 8 mm.

Body black; punctation of head and mesosoma similar, moderate, with regular well-spaced pits; frons with distinct longitudinal groove reinforced with short carina, disappearing before anterior ocellus; clypeus quadridentate with median indentation formed from overhanging prolongation of median carina (c.f. Fig. 24 of Leclercq (1958: 47); POD distinctly shorter than OOD; tibiae mostly brownish or blackish-brown ventrally; Gt 1 finely punctured; propodeum with fine rugulose enclosure, interstices microsculptured.

Male. Clypeus with distinct longitudinal carina, apically truncated; frons with distinct IOC followed by broad depression; mandible brownish black; Gt 1 sturdy; Gt 2 impunctate; Gt 2 –Gt 4 bimaculate, spots of Gt 2 smaller than patches on following terga; Gt 5 –Gt 6 with wide yellow band; frons with scattered punctation, interstices smooth; punctation on mesosoma fine, moderately dense; pronotum without rugae on anterior part.

Distribution. India: Tamil Nadu. Elsewhere: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; Sri Lanka; Thailand ( Pulawski 2021).

Figures

FIGURES 23–24. Dasyproctus attenboroughi Binoy, Santhosh & Girish Kumar, sp. nov. Holotype ♂. 23. Gt1 & Gt2, dorsal view; 24. Metasoma, lateral view.