Scientific Name

Lissodynerus septemfasciatus septemfasciatus (Smith, 1858)

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Odynerini: Lissodynerus

Synonyms/Original combination

Odynerus septem-fasciatus Smith, 1858: 111.
Ancistrocerus septemfasciatus; Giordani Soika, 1941: 240.
Lissodynerus septemfasciatus septemfasciatus; Giordani Soika, 1994: 304 (key), 313, fig. 73.

Brief diagnosis

Eye with inner margin strongly emarginate Cephalic foveae closely spaced, nearer occipital margin than posterior ocelli. Anterior face of pronotum without medial pits or foveae. Mesoscutum with parategula. Axillary fossa narrower than long, slit-like; tegula not exceeding parategula. Fore wing with first discal cell longer than subbasal cell. Mesepisternum without epicnemial carina. Fore wing folded longitudinally. Prestigma more than half as long as pterostigma. SMC 2 not petiolate anteriorly; propodeal orifice broad and rounded dorsally. Tarsal claws bifid. Metasoma not petiolate, T1 in dorsal view usually broader, more than half as wide as T2 in dorsal view. T1 with transverse carina. T2 with apical lamella.

Images

Adult- dorsal view
Adult- lateral view

Distribution

India: Goa, Karnataka.
Elsewhere: Indonesia; Malaysia; Thailand.

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., Srinivasan, G. & Carpenter, J.M. (2015b) A new species of Lissodynerus Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Rutland Island, southern Andaman, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 7(10), 7664–7667.
    https://doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o4022.7664-7
  • Gusenleitner, J. (2006) Über Aufsammlungen von Faltenwespen in Indien (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge, 38(1), 677–695.
  • Pannure, A., Belavadi, V.V. & Carpenter, J.M. (2016) Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India. Zootaxa, 4171(1), 1–50.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1