Sceliphron paraintrudens Jha & Farooqi, 1995

Anagha, S., Kumar, P. Girish, Binoy, C., Mazumdar, P. C. & Sureshan, P. M., 2021, A review of the mud-dauber wasps of genus Sceliphron Klug (Hymenoptera Sphecidae) from India, Zootaxa 4969 (1), pp. 61-85 : 82

3. Sceliphron paraintrudens Jha & Farooqi, 1995 .

Sceliphron paraintrudens Jha & Farooqi, 1995: 17 , ♀, ♂. Holotype: ♀, India: Bihar: Pusa (repository?)

Diagnosis. Female. Frons with very fine shallow close punctures; clypeus apico-medially incised, forming two lobes, outer margin of each lobe obliquely truncate, incision on either side delimiting middle lobe (see Fig. 15 of Jha & Farooqi (1995: 18)); pronotal collar with fine shallow crowded punctation; mesonotum with very fine striation, transverse anteriorly, becoming oblique posteriorly; scutellum and metanotum longitudinally finely striate; propodeal enclosure with longitudinal depression in middle, striation comparatively bold, but similar as in S. madraspatanum in arrangement; mesopleuron with crowded punctation; petiole reddish yellow.

Male. Metanotum transversely striate; petiole longer than female and pale yellow except apex.

Distribution. India: Bihar ( Jha & Farooqi 1995; Pulawski 2021).

Figures

FIGURES 15–19. Sceliphron deforme tibiale Cameron, ♀. 15. Habitus, lateral view; 16. Head, frontal view; 17. Mesosoma, dorsal view; 18. Mesosoma, lateral view; 19. Metasoma, dorsal view.