About 30% of bees (33 out of 112) from Udawattakele carried on their bodies mite hypopi belonging to a new, distinct species of a genus near Vidia (Saproglyphidae). The wasp was at the bottom of the pit with eight Agrilus, two of sp.
Philanthus basalis basalis Smith
Propodeal closure with numerous fine punctures; clypeus except lateral lobes equally convex; last flagellar segment simple; sixth abdominal sternum not denser posterolaterally than elsewhere; First abdominal segment very thin, 1.7-2.3 times longer than greatest width; Second abdominal tergum with a pale basal fascia, third and sixth each with an apical fascia, fourth without a narrow apical fascia, except in some specimens where the black ground color is replaced by red 13. First segment the belly is entirely red without pale spots, but the legs have no red. Following light reddish: flag below, first abdominal segment, basal platform on second sternum, and basal half of third to fifth sternum.
First abdominal segment 0.9 times longer than greatest width; pygidium (Fig. 83); second sternum with well-developed platform as in female;
Cerceris intrusa, new species
Three Ceylonese females lack the pale maculations on the fourth and fifth terga, another three have small paired pale yellow spots on the postscutellum, and three have pale yellow rather than ivory ventral maculations. Indian females have brighter yellow maculations, the postcutellum is banded, and the second tergum sometimes has a narrow apical fascia. A Ceylonese male has small paired spots on the postscutel, and another has paired spots at the base of the second tergum and paired lateral spots on the second and fourth sterna.
Most Indian males have brighter yellow maculations, except two that have ivory spots on the abdomen; most specimens have a median spot on clypeus, band on postcutellum, basal spots and a median apical spot on second tergum, and an apical fascia or paired spots on sixth tergum; and four males have small paired spots on pronotum.
Cerceris pictiventris novarae Saussure
Head (Figure 55) width 1.5 times the distance from the tip of the clypeus to the anterior ocellus and 2.1 times the smallest interocular distance; apical edge of clypeal lobe truncated, lateral fimbria of waxed hairs one-third width of clypeus. Head (Figure 62) width 1.6 times the distance from the clypeal apex to the anterior ocellus and 2.0 times the smallest interocular distance; apical margin of median lobe of clypeus truncated, lateral fimbria of waxy hairs more than half as wide as lateral lobe; supraclypeal area bulging, but not as strong as in females. Head (figures 5, 6) width twice the distance from the tip of clypeus to the anterior ocellus and 2.3 times the smallest interocular distance; middle lobe of clypeus shallowly concave, the apical margin light and broad, projection absent;
Head (Figure 58) width 1.6 times distance from clypeal apex to anterior ocellus and twice least interocular distance; clypeus (Figure 68) with lateral fimbria of curled hairs on lateral fifth, apical margin of median lobe truncate;.
Cerceris bidentula spiniventris Tsuneki, new status
The posterolateral tooth on the fifth abdominal sternum of the female is weak and blunt in the former species, acute and well developed in the latter. Head (Figures 13-15) width 1.5 times distance from apex of clypeal to anterior ocellus and 1.8 times least interocular distance; clypeus with a few small teeth above the apical margin, median. Head (Figure 52) width 1.5 times distance from clypeal apex to anterior ocellus and 2.0 times least interocular distance; margin of clypeal lobe truncate, clypeal fimbria only about one-fifth clypeal width.
First abdominal segment 1.7 times as long as greatest width; sixth tergum with small posterolateral tooth or tubercle, lacking in smallest specimens; pygidium (Figure 70); platform on second sternum undeveloped; sixth sternum (Figure 71) with an acute posterolateral tooth.
Cerceris mastogaster Smith
The following red: flagellum below, propodeum except integument, mid and hind coxae and trochanters or posterior segments only, all femora or hind femora only partially, first three terga except pale areas or first tergum only, sometimes basal half of second tergum behind pale fascia , first to fifth sterna except pale lateral spot on third or only first to third sterna, and median spot on fourth sterna. Black, the following white or ivory: basal half of the mandible, clypeus except the narrow anterior margin, narrow line on the center of the face to the crest between the antennae, large lateral spot on the lower half of the anterior, landscape below, large lateral spot on pronotal disc, tegula, band on postscutellum, basal spot on second abdominal tergum, broad apical band on third tergum nar-. Head (Figure 53) width 2.0 times the distance from the tip of the clypeus to the anterior ocellus and 1.9 times the smallest interocular distance; clypeus with apical margin of the middle lobe, very weakly tridentate, fimbria of waxed hair on the lateral fourth of the margin.
First abdominal segment 1.2 times longer than wide; sixth tergum with a small, open postero-lateral tubercle; pygidium (Figure 72); second sternum with a pair of extremely weak anterolateral tubercles, which are sometimes absent, basal platform slightly raised; sixth sternum with an acute posterolateral tooth (Figure 73).
Cerceris dissecta (Fabricius)
Head (Figures 16, 17) width 1.7 times distance from clypeal apex to anterior ocellus and 1.9 times least interocular distance; clypeus with a low subapical transverse lamella with a curved apical margin, the apical margin of the median lobe slightly emarginate and with a weak blunt lateral tooth. First abdominal segment usually slightly shorter than greatest width, but 1.2 times as long as width in an unusually small specimen; none of terga with medioapical fovea; pygidium (Figure 41); the base of the second sternum with a weak platform, the edges of which are gradually waste; fifth sternum not dentate posterolaterally. Head (Figure 54) width 1.5 times distance from clypeal apex to anterior ocellus and 1.9 times least interocular distance; apical margin of middle lobe of clypeus weakly tridentate, lateral fimbria one-fifth clypeal width.
First abdominal segment 1.2-1.3 times longer than greatest width; pygidium (Figure 74); second sternum as in female; sixth sternum with postero-lateral tooth.
Cerceris vischnu vischnu Cameron, new status
Head (Figure 59) width 1.3 times distance from clypeal apex to anterior ocellus and 2.1 times least interocular distance; clypeus (Figure 69) with the apical margin of the median lobe weakly triangular, lateral fimbria of waxy hairs one third of the clypeal width. First abdominal segment 0.9 times as long as greatest width; pygidium (Figure 79); base of second sternum with a very faint semicircular platform; sixth sternum not toothed posterolaterally. First abdominal segment 1.1 times as long as wide, without a medioapical fovea; pygidium (Figure 43); second sternum with a weak basal platform.
Head (Figure 57) width 1.6 times the distance from the tip of the clypeus to the anterior ocellus and 1.9 times the smallest interocular distance; lateral fimbria of curly hairs, one-third clypeal wide, margin of apical lobe tridentate.
Cerceris bifasciata Guerin
Head (Figure 60) width 1.6 times the distance from the clypeal apex to the anterior ocellus and twice the smallest interocular distance; apical margin of mine-. First abdominal segment 1.2 times as long as greatest width; pygidium (Figure 81); platform at the base of the second sternum weaker than in women; First abdominal segment 1.6 times as long as greatest width; no terga with medioapical fovea; pygidium (Figure 48); second sternum without basal platform; fifth sternum not posterolaterally dentate.
First abdominal segment 1.7–2.3 times as long as greatest width; pygidium (Figure 86); base of second sternum without platform; sixth sternum not dentate posterolaterally.
Cerceris conifera, new species
Pale markings in both sexes may be paler or lighter yellow, the postscutellum may be banded, and the hind basetarsus rarely dark. The clypeal tubercle is weaker than noted in a few females, the second tergum may have paired spots instead of a band, and the median spot on the second sternum may be missing. Occasional males have the second tergum spotless or there may be a basal band instead of a spot, and the second sternum may have a pair of small lateral spots or an apical fascia.
Cerceris curculionicida, new species
Head width (Figure 67) 1.6 times distance from apex of clypeus to anterior ocellus and 2.1 times least interocular distance; clypeus more convex in upper two-thirds than in most other species, apical margin of lobe with weak, blunt median tooth, lateral angles broadly rounded, lateral fimbriae of waxy hairs one-third width; last flagellar segment concave below, apex subtruncate. First abdominal segment 1.3 times longer than wide, tergum without medioapical fovea; sixth tergum without blunt tubercle; pygidium (Fig. 87); second sternum without basal platform but with very weak anterolateral tubercle; sixth sternum (Figure 88) without posterolateral tooth, apical margin with fimbria of stiff short setae on lateral third. Female paratypes are 8.5-9.2 mm long; the large spots on the second sternum are united in two specimens, and one specimen has a small lateral spot on the fourth sternum.
Male paratypes are 7.7 and 10.2 mm long; in both paratypes, oblique rugules cover the basal two-thirds of the propodeal case, and one lacks an evanescent antero-lateral tubercle on the second sternum.
Cerceris tetradonta Cameron
Descriptions of new species of fossorial Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Mu-. Memoirs of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of Fukui, Series II, Science pages, 121 images. A Monograph of the Wasps of the Genus Cerceris inhabiting British India, with Notes on other Asiatic Species.
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