Phimenes flavopictum ( Blanchard, 1840 )

Sheikh, Altaf Hussain, Kumar, P. Girish, Thomas, Moni & Bhandari, Rita, 2017, Taxonomic studies on Vespid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae) of Dumna Nature Park, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (3), pp. 198-198 : 198-

19. Phimenes flavopictum ( Blanchard, 1840)

1840. Eumenes flavopictus Blanchard , in Ch. d’Orbigny, vol. 2, Ins., Hym., pl. 2, figure 21, Type locality Unknown (? MP).

2013. Phimenes flavopictum ; Girish Kumar, 120.

Diagnosis: Female: Apex of clypeus widely truncate, anterior margin moderately emarginate, sparsely punctate; frons closely and strongly punctured; propodeal dorsum strongly punctured except at dorsolateral angle almost smooth; pronotum with distinct pretegular carina; fore wing with prestigma 1.31x pterostigma; petiole and gaster almost smooth; T2 without lamellae separated by apical thickening, slightly curved inwards medially at apex.

Colour Description: Black with following yellow markings: clypeus, inter antennal mark, line at inner orbits, narrow line at outer orbits; transverse band on pronotum; four spots on mesoscutum, small mark on lateral areas of scutellum, marks behind axillary fossa near base of hind wing, vertical band on mesepisternum, band on outer margin of tegulae, band on postscutellum, two large marks on posterior area of propodeum; marks on outer side of mid and hind coxae, line at inner side of fore femora, most of fore tibiae (leaving brown line on inner side), line on outer side of mid and hind tibiae; three pairs of spots on gastral petiole; pair of transverse spots at base of T2, forming interrupted band, narrowly interrupted bands at apex of T2-T5, pair of small spot at apex of T6 and widely interrupted bands at apex of S2-S5. Brown markings as follows: labrum brown; mandible blackish brown. Wings fusco-hyaline.

Size (H+M+T1+T2): 24-26 mm.

Male: Apical antennal article hooked apically, hook long, curved and pointed, in curved position it almost reaching to apex of ninth antennal segment; S3-S6 with dense hairs; S7 almost flat, rounded apically without dense hairs except at apical margin, apical margin with dense hairs; apical tip of aedeagus bulb-like; pubescence of base of volsella long and dense; digitus of volsella wider, densely pubescent at base, dorsally with distinct blunt angle; parameral spine elongate with moderately large hairs. Other characters almost same as in female.

Size (H+M+T1+T2): 18 mm.

Material examined: INDIA: Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur district, Dumna Nature Park , 1♀ & 1♂, 14.x.2015, Coll. Altaf Hussain Sheikh.

Distribution: India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh (new record), Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand.