Episyron arrogans
Creators
- 1. P. G. & Research Department of Zoology, Government College, Madappally, Vatakara, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673102, India, Affiliated to University of Calicut
- 2. Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673006, India
Description
Episyron arrogans (Smith, 1873)
Pompilus arrogans Smith, 1873: 187, ♀. Holotype: ♀, “Hiogo” [Japan, Honshu], deposited in British Museum of Natural History, London.
Episyron arrogans: Kim 1970: 558, ♀; Lelej et al. 1994: 143, ♀, ♂.
Episyron capitosus: Kim 1970: 559, ♂.
Diagnosis. Female. Body largely black, following markings creamy yellow: narrow stripes along inner orbit in median part of frontal face (much separating from clypeal base), stripes along upper half, posterior margin of eyes, medially interrupted posterior margin of pronotum, paired basolateral round spots on T1, paired basal transverse spots on T2, T3 and T5 (sometimes connected), and tibial spurs and dorsobasal spot on hind tibia; wings hyaline, broadly infuscated at apex; wing veins and tegulae black; obscurely pruinose; head not wider than mesosoma; clypeus very slightly convex, nearly vertical, anterior margin widely arched; propodeum with a rounded steep slope to apex; SMC3 distinctly smaller than SMC2; and crossvein 2m-cu of forewing nearly straight. Male. In addition to spots seen in female, basal transverse line (or shortly interrupted medially) on T3 and T7 creamy yellow; ventral face of fore tibia and basal half of hind tibia reddish yellow; and ventral faces of antennal flagellomeres brownish (Smith 1873; Bingham 1897; Kim 2022).
Distribution. India: Uttarakhand. Elsewhere. Oriental: Myanmar; Philippines; Sri Lanka. Palearctic: Austria; Belarus; Bosnia and Herzegovina; China; Corsica; Czech Republic; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iran; Italy; Japan; North Korea; Portugal; Romania; Russia; Sardinia; Sicily; Slovakia; Slovenia; South Korea; Spain; Switzerland; Turkey; Ukraine (Bingham 1897; Wahis 2007; Amiresmaeili et al. 2011; Ghahari et al. 2014; Loktionov & Lelej 2014; Kim 2022).
Note. The markings on the body segments are highly variable within the species. Sometimes anterior margin of clypeus narrowly and square spot at apex of mesoscutum are yellowish white. T4 and T5 with yellowish white fascia in some specimens in addition to the usual markings.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pompilidae
- Genus
- Episyron
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Species
- arrogans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Episyron arrogans (Smith, 1873) sec. Anju, Kumar & Thejass, 2024
References
- Smith, F. (1873) Descriptions of Aculeate Hymenoptera of Japan, collected by Mr. George Lewis at Nagasaki and Hiodo. The transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 2, 181 - 206. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1873. tb 00641. x
- Kim, C. W. (1970) Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fauna and Flora of Korea. Vol. 11. Insecta (III). Samhwasa, Seoul, 891 pp.
- Lelej, A. S., Saigusa, T. & Lee C. E. (1994) Spider wasps (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) of Korea. Russian Entomological Journal, 3 (1 - 2), 135 - 148.
- Bingham, C. T. (1897) Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. In: Blanford, W. T. (Ed.), Hymenoptera. Vol. I. Wasps and bees. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 1 - 579. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 100738.
- Kim, J. - K. (2022) A revision of the genus Episyron (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) in Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 16 (2), 246 - 250. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. japb. 2022.10.008
- Wahis, R. (2007) Fauna Europaea: Pompilidae. Fauna Europaea. Version 1.3. Available from: http: // www. faunaeur. org (accessed 15 January 2024)
- Amiresmaeili, N., Wahis, R. & Barari, H. (2011) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider wasps fauna (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) from Mazandaran province, Iran. Entomofauna, 32 (29), 397 - 412.
- Ghahari, H., Gadallah, N. S. & Wahis, R. (2014) An Annotated catalogue of the Iranian Pompilidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea). Entomologie Faunistique - Faunistic Entomology, 67, 221 - 242.
- Loktionov, V. M. & Lelej, A. S. (2014) Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Russian Far East. Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Dalnauka, Vladivostok, 472 pp.