Sceliphron formosum formosum (F. Smith, 1856 )

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 : 70

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6. Sceliphron formosum formosum (F. Smith, 1856) View in CoL

Pelopaeus formosus F. Smith 1856: 230 View in CoL , ♀. Lectotype: ♀, Australia: Northern Territory: Port Essington (BMNH), designated by Hensen 1987: 258.

Sceliphron papuanum Cameron 1906: 221 View in CoL , ♀. Holotype or syntypes: ♀, Indonesia: Papua: Merauke (ZMA). Synonymized with Sceliphron formosum View in CoL by van der Vecht in R. Bohart and Menke, 1976:106.

Diagnosis. Female. Frons distinctly pilose; clypeus apico-medially incised with lateral incisions (see Fig. 103 of Hensen (1987: 250)); pronotal collar with yellow band; mesoscutum and propodeum transversely striate; scutellum with yellow patch; basal spot on each side of propodum, large one posteriorly and two oblong large spots in middle, yellow; metasoma with first, fourth (more or less), fifth, and sixth terga and petiole yellow (see Fig. 86 of Hensen (1987: 245)).

Male. Second tergum black, or with strongly reduced band; sterna usually black; petiole and antennal scape yellow; petiole a little longer than in female.

Note. No specimens were seen during the present study, so the above diagnosis has been based on the published descriptions (F. Smith 1856; Kohl 1918; Hensen 1987).

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh. Elsewhere: Australia; China; Indonesia; Japan; Myanmar; New Guinea ( Kundu et al. 2006; Pulawski 2021).

References

Bohart, R. M. & Menke, A. S. (1976) Sphecid wasps of the world. A generic revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 695 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1525 / 9780520309548

Cameron, P. (1906) Hymenoptera of the Dutch expedition to New Guinea in 1904 and 1905. Part I. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 49, 215 - 233.

Hensen, R. V. (1987) Revision of the subgenus Prosceliphron van der Vecht (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 129, 217 - 261.

Kohl, F. (1918) Die Hautfluglergruppe Sphecinae . IV. Die naturliche Gattung Sceliphron Klug (= Pelopaeus Latr.). Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 32, 1 - 171. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 2204

Kundu, B. G., Ghosh, S. N. & Tiwari, R. N. (2006) Insecta: Hymenoptera: Aculeata: Sphecidae. In: Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, State Fauna Series. 13 (2). Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 399 - 426.

Pulawski, W. J. (2021) Catalog of Sphecidae. Available on: http: // research. calacademy. org / ent / catalog _ sphecidae / (accessed 15 February 2021)

Smith, F. (1856) Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. Sphegidae, Larridae and Crabronidae. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 207 - 497.