Scientific Name

Eumenes assamensis Meade-Waldo, 1910

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Eumenini: Eumenes

Synonyms/Original combination

Eumenes assamensis Meade-Waldo, 1910a: 41.

Brief diagnosis

Female: Head slightly wider than long. Mesosoma globular, as wide as high. Pronoum without pretegular carina. Mesepisternum without epicnemial carina. Axillary fossa oval. Mid tibia with one spur. Claws bifid. Second submarginal cell acute basally. Metasoma petiolate. T2 with apical lamella and short hairs. Colour: Body black with orange markings.

Images

Adult- dorsal view
Adult- lateral view
Adult- frontal view

Distribution

India: Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Elsewhere: China: Tibet; Laos; Nepal.

Distribution within India

References

  • Girish Kumar, P., Carpenter, J.M., Castro, L. & Sureshan, P.M. (2017b) A taxonomic review of the Indian species of the genus Eumenes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Zootaxa, 4317(3), 469–498. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.3
  • Gusenleitner, J. (2011) Eine Aufsammlung von Faltenwespen aus Laos im Biologiezentrum Linz (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae, Stenogastrinae, Polistinae, Eumeninae). Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 43(2), 1351–1368.