Dasyproctus buddha (Cameron, 1889)

Binoy, C. & Kumar, P. Girish, 2024, Dasyproctus yesudasi sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae, Crabroninae), a new square-headed moustache wasp from south India, Zootaxa 5512 (1), pp. 136-150 : 141-142

Dasyproctus buddha (Cameron, 1889)

( Figs 11–16 )

Images examined: non-type ♀, India: Bengal , Coll. Cameron 1901-261, B.M. TYPE HYM. 21.1,007, C. O’Toole det. 1992 ( NHMUK 015934085 ) .

Diagnosis. Body length 3.84 mm; fore wing length 1.27 mm.

Black except the following: scape yellow, mandible yellow with apical teeth reddish brown, pronotal collar with yellow band (except medial line), pronotal lobe yellow, axilla and two separate spots on scutellum yellow, all tibiae yellow with short brown patch on outside; Gt 1 and Gt 2 immaculate. Clypeus apico-medially bevelled, truncate or slightly emarginate; IOC distinct; POD equal to OOD; punctation on head and mesosoma not very obvious, punctures obsolete beyond lateral ocelli; anterior bordering carina of pronotal collar bending towards insertion of fore coxa; Gt 1 pedunculate.

Figures

FIGURES 11–16. Dasyproctus buddha (Cameron, 1889). non-type ♀.11, habitus, lateral view; 12, head, frontal view; 13, clypeus, enlarged view; 14, habitus, dorsal view; 15, metasoma, lateral view; 16, labels.