Scientific Name

Rhynchium brunneum brunneum (Fabricius, 1793)

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Odynerini: Rhynchium

Synonyms/Original combination

Vespa brunnea Fabricius, 1793: 264.
Odynerus brunneus; Latreille, 1806: pI. 14, fig.3.
Rhynchium brunneum; Spinola, 1808: 189.
Rhynchium haemorrhoidale var. brunneum; de Saussure, 1862: 190.
Rhynchium quinquecinctum var. brunneum; Dalla Torre, 1894: 45.
Rynchium khandalense Dusmet, 1930: 105.
Rhynchium brunneum brunneum; Gusenleitner, 2006: 692.

Brief diagnosis

Female: Claws bifid. Tegula not evenly rounded posteriorly, emarginated adjoining parategula. Tegula not exceeding parategula posteriorly. Axillary fossa narrow, slit like. Fore wing with prestigma more than half the length of pterostigma. Third sub-marginal cell separated from the apex of marginal cell by distance longer than its minimum width. Scutum posteriorly and scutellum anteriorly smooth and impunctate. Metasoma not petiolate.

Images

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

Distribution

India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Odisha, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Elsewhere: Bangladesh; Bhutan; Cambodia; China; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Marianas; Myanmar; Nepal; New Britain; Pakistan; Palau; Seychelles; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam.

Distribution within India

References

  • Srinivasan & Girish Kumar 2013
  • 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. & Sharma, G. (2013) A taxonomic study on the Genus Rhynchium Spinola (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from the Indian Subcontinent. Records of Zoological Survey of India, 113(2), 105–122.
  • Girish Kumar, P. & Sharma, G. (2014b) Taxonomic studies on vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae) of Sunderbans Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal, India Part 1. Records of Zoological Survey of India, 114(4), 563–580.
  • Girish Kumar, P. & Sharma, G. (2015b) Taxonomic studies on Vespid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae) of Chhattisgarh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 7(14), 8096–8127.
    https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.2426.7.14.8096-8127
  • Gusenleitner, J. (2006) Über Aufsammlungen von Faltenwespen in Indien (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge, 38(1), 677–695.
  • 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.
  • Nidup, T., Klein, W., Girish Kumar, P. & Dorji, P. (2018) Additional reports of solitary potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) in Bhutan. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10(5), 11686–11696.
    https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3888.10.5.11686-11696
  • 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
  • Pham, P.H. & Li, T. (2015) A first list of vespid wasps from Vietnam (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Russian Entomological Journal, 24(2), 133–144.
  • Rafi, M.A., Carpenter, J.M., Qasim, M., Shehzad, A., Zia, A., Khan, M.R., Mastoi, M.I., Naz, F., Ilyas, M., Shah, M. & Bhatti, A.R. (2017) The vespid fauna of Pakistan. Zootaxa, 4362(1), 1–28.
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  • Srinivasan, G. & Girish Kumar, P. (2013) A study on Vespid wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Itanagar Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 113(1), 115–127.