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Issue: Vol. 4272 No. 4: 31 May 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-05-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.4.7
Page range: 583–586
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A new species of the genus Discoelius Latreille, 1809 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from India

Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignan Kendra, Bengaluru-560 065, India.
Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignan Kendra, Bengaluru-560 065, India.
Divison of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th street, New York, NY 10024, USA.
Hymenoptera Vespidae Eumeninae

Abstract

Discoelius vasukii Pannure & Carpenter, sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Tamil Nadu, India.

        Discoelius Latreille, 1809 is a small genus of solitary wasp with ten species and one subspecies described, of which D. aurantiacus Nguyen, D. emeishanensus Zhou & Li, D. esakii Yasumatsu, D. longinodus Yamane, D. nigriclypeus Zhou & Li, D. turneri (Meade-Waldo), D. wangi Yamane and D. zonalis (Panzer) are recorded from Oriental Region (Zhou et al. 2013; Nguyen 2016). Only a single species, D. turneri described from Shillong (Meghalaya) (Meade-Waldo, 1910) and later recorded from Sikkim (Giordani Soika 1960) has been previously known from India. In this study, we describe a new species of Discoelius from India based on a single female specimen collected at Valparai (Tamil Nadu), India.

 

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