Scientific Name

Labus pusillus van der Vecht, 1963

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Odynerini: Labus

Synonyms/Original combination

Labus pusillus van der Vecht, 1963: 6.

Brief diagnosis

Eye with inner margin strongly emarginate. Female with a distinct subcircular 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 unidentate. Metasoma petiolate, T1 in dorsal view usually longer, less than half as wide as T2 in dorsal view. T1 in dorsal view conspicuously swollen in apical half.

Images

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

Distribution

India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh (new record), Assam, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Puducherry, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Elsewhere: Bhutan; China; Nepal, Sri Lanka; Vietnam.

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.
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  • Girish Kumar, P., Mohammed Shareef, K.P., Lambert, K. & Carpenter, J.M. (2013c) A taxonomic review of the Oriental genus Labus de Saussure, 1867 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from the Indian subcontinent. Biosystematica, 7(2), 29–37.
  • Gusenleitner, J. (2006) Über Aufsammlungen von Faltenwespen in Indien (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge, 38(1), 677–695.
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    https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.65.26976
  • Nidup, T., Gyeltshen, T., Girish Kumar, P., Klein, W. & Dorji, P. (2016) New records of petiolate potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Bhutan. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 8(12), 9467–9472.
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