Scientific Name
Paraleptomenes miniatus mephitis (Cameron, 1901)
Taxonomic Placement
Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Odynerini: Odynerini
Synonyms/Original combination
Odynerus mephitis Cameron 1901b: 30.
Odynerus miniatus var. mephitis; Giordani Soika, 1941: 266.
Odynerusrufo-bimaculatus Cameron, 1909: 136.
Paraleptomenes mephitis; Krombein, 1978: 721-734.
Paraleptomenes miniatus mephitis; Giordani Soika, 1994: 123 (key), 127.
Brief diagnosis
Female: Claws bifid. Propodeal orifice broad and round dorsally. Anterior face of pronotum with 2 small, deeply impressed foveae. Foveae coalesced, punctate laterally. Scutellum convex, metanotum very oblique. Pronotum, scutellum, metanotum and mesepisternum with yellow pits. T1 in dorsal view as wide as its median length. Metasoma not petiolate. T1 in dorsal view broader than length. T1 subsessile, in dorsal view usually narrower than T2. Colour: Body black with yellow and red ferruginous markings. Yellow markings are as follows: base of mandibles, transverse spots on clypeus at base, a vertical spot in interantennal space, at emargination of eyes, a line behind them, ventral side of scape, two spots on dorsal side of pronotum, a spot anteriorly and another posteriorly on tegula, parategula, two spots on either sides of scutellum and metanotum, a spot on mesepisternum, transverse band on apical margin of T1, T2 & S2. Base of T1 ferruginous.
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Distribution
India: Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Pondicherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal.
Elsewhere: Sri Lanka.
Distribution within India
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