Scientific Name

Eustenogaster eximia eximioides (Dover & Rao, 1922)

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Stenogastrinae Eustenogaster

Synonyms/Original combination

Stenogaster eximioides Dover and Rao, 1922: 242.
Paravespa eva Bell, 1936: 803.
Eustenogaster eximioides; Iwata, 1976: 275.
Eustenogaster eximia eximioides; Das and Gupta, 1984: 402.
“Ischnogaster eximia eximioides”; van der Vecht & Carpenter 1990:44.

Brief diagnosis

Female: Fore wings not longitudinally folded when at rest. Pronotal lobe separated from tegula by distance more than length of lobe. Body black with following yellow markings: Clypeus, supraclypeal area, interantennal space, ocular sinus, apical margin of pronotum, pair of semicircular marks on scutellum, basal transverse band on metanotum, pair of longitudinal mark on propodeum, femur and tibia of fore leg, tibia of mid and hind leg, T2 with basal transverse band, T3-T5 with pair of transverse basal bands. Wings brownish hyaline with yellow stigma.

Images

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

Distribution

India: Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu.

Distribution within India

References

  • Carpenter, J.M. & Kojima, J.I. (1996) Checklist of the species in the subfamily Stenogastrinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 04(1–2), 21–36.
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/25010198
  • Das, B. P., & Gupta, V.K. (1984) A catalogue of the families Stenogastridae and Vespidae from the Indian subregion (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea). Oriental Insects, 17(1), 395–464.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1983.10433698
  • Das, B.P. & Gupta, V.K. (1989) The social wasps of India and the adjacent countries. Oriental Insects Monograph, 11, 1–292.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1989.11835532
  • 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
  • Gusenleitner, J. (2006) Über Aufsammlungen von Faltenwespen in Indien (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge, 38(1), 677–695.