Scientific Name

Cyrtolabulus interstitialis (Cameron, 1902)

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Odynerini: Cyrtolabulus

Synonyms/Original combination

Zethus interstitialis Cameron, 1902: 291.
Calligaster interstitialis; Dalla Tore, 1904: 17.
Labus interstitialis; Meade-Waldo & Morley, 1914: 404.
Cyrtolabulus interstitialis; van der Vecht, 1963: 14.

Brief diagnosis

Eye with inner margin strongly emarginate. Female without fovea below median ocellus. Mesosoma more or less flattened dorso-ventrally, distinctly longer than high. Axillary fossa oval. Mesoscutum with parategula. Fore wing with first discal cell longer than subbasal cell. Fore wing folded longitudinally. Tarsal claws bifid. Mid tibia with one spur. Propodeal valvula not fused to sub-marginal carina, sub-marginal carina produced as a pointed process above valvular. Metanotum not unidentate. Metasoma petiolate, T1 in dorsal view usually longer, less than half as wide as T2 in dorsal view. T1 in dorsal view not conspicuously swollen in apical half.

Images

Adult- dorsal view
Adult- lateral view

Distribution

India: Goa, Maharashtra.

Distribution within India

References

  • Gawas, S.M., Girish Kumar, P., Gupta, A. & Sureshan, P.M. (2019) Checklist of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Goa, India, with new records and a key to species. Zootaxa, 4585 (2), 269–294.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4585.2.3
  • Girish Kumar, P., Carpenter, J.M. & Sureshan, P.M. (2015a) A Taxonomic Review of the Genus Cyrtolabulus van der Vecht, 1969 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from India. In: Gupta, V.K. & Verma, A.K. (Eds.), Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation, 5, Daya Publishing House, New Delhi, pp. 49–55.