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Pseumenes palawanensis Selis 2017, stat. nov.

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Description

Pseumenes palawanensis Giordani Soika, 1993 stat. nov. (Figs. 8–10)

Pseumenes depressus palawanensis Giordani Soika 1993: 158, ♀, ♂ —“Is. Filippine: Palawan: Puerto Princesa ” (holotype RMNH). Material examined. PHILIPPINES: PALAWAN: 8-13km SE of Tarumpitao Pt., in jungle, 21.V.1958, leg. H. E. Milliron, 1♀ (paratype, MSNVE).

Distribution. Philippine Islands: Palawan (Giordani Soika 1993).

Remarks. Giordani Soika (1993) originally described this taxon as a subspecies of P. depressus (de Saussure, 1855). Comparing a paratype of P. depressus palawanensis with other forms of P. depressus, including the typical subspecies, characters that allow consideration of P. palawanensis as a distinct species were found: emargination of clypeus shallower with lateral teeth more acutely pointed, vertex more developed dorsally, scutellum and metanotum with well impressed punctures, propodeum with stronger and better defined punctures on lateral margins of posterior face, swollen apical third of T1 with denser punctures and deeper longitudinal furrow, apical margin of T1 without brownish bent upward lamella, apical lamella of T2 more strongly separated from rest of surface and almost perpendicular to apical margin (Fig. 10).

Notes

Published as part of Selis, Marco, 2017, The genus Pseumenes Giordani Soika, 1935 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) in the Philippine Islands, with description of a new species, pp. 296-300 in Zootaxa 4306 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/843730

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MSNVE , RMNH
Event date
1958-05-21
Family
Eumenidae
Genus
Pseumenes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Selis
Species
palawanensis
Taxonomic status
stat. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
1958-05-21
Taxonomic concept label
Pseumenes palawanensis (Soika, 1993) sec. Selis, 2017

References

  • Giordani Soika, A. (1993) Di alcuni nuovi Eumenidi della regione Orientale (Hym. Vespoidea). Bollettino del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Venezia, 42, 151 - 163.
  • Saussure, H. de (1855) Etudes sur la Famille des Vespides 3. La Monographie des Masariens et un supplement a la Monographie des Eumeniens. Masson, V., Paris and Kessmann, J., Geneve, 352 pp.