Calligaster williamsi
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Vespidae
Genus: Calligaster
Name
Calligaster williamsi Bequaert, 1940 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Zethus (Calligaster) cyanopterus; Williams 1919[1]: 157–164 (natural history).
- Calligaster n. sp.; van der Vecht 1937[2]: 263.
- Calligaster williamsi Bequaert, 1940: 124, fig. 1 A–D, ♀♂, “Los Baños, Luzon, Philippine Is.”, holotype female (MCZ).
Diagnosis
Calligaster williamsi can be distinguished from its congeners by the combination of the following characters: metasomal tergum I in lateral view barely convex dorsally, with preapical dorsal depression weakly produced (Fig. 4), in dorsal view weakly and evenly convex laterally (Fig. 8); longitudinal striae on tergum I strong, more or less regularly arranged (Fig. 8); apex of male terminal antennal flagellomere rounded [Fig. 18; bluntly pointed in Calligaster cyanoptera (Fig. 17)].
Material examined
LUZON: 1♀ (IUNH), Los Banos, Laguna, 31.iii.1978, T. Murota; 2♀ 1♂ (IUNH), Los Banos, Laguna, 2-5.viii.1978, H. Kurokawa; 1♀ (IUNH), Univ. Phil. Los Banos, Laguna, 21.iii.1980, J. Kojima; 1♂ (IUNH), Univ. Phil. Los Banos, Laguna, 10.iii.1980, J. Kojima; 1♂ (IUNH), Univ. Phil. Los Banos, Laguna, 15.iii.1980, J. Kojima; 1♂ (NSMT), Mt. Maquiling, Laguna Province, 17–18.vi.1977, Y. Kurosawa. MINDANAO: 1♀ (NSMT), N. Zamboanga, 5.xii.1994, J. Abella, Nagase coll.; 1♀ (NSMT), Aras-asan, Surigao, S. Mindanao, x.1978.
Distribution
Philippines: Luzon Is., Mindoro Is., Mindanao Is.
Remarks
Van der Vecht (1937[2]: 262) pointed out that the Phiippine species of Calligaster, of which life history was described by Williams (1919)[1] under the name of Zethus (Calligaster) cyanopterus, was “not conspecific with Calligaster cyanopterus” and mentioned that the species “will be described in a forthcoming paper by Prof. J. Bequaert.” Bequaert (1940[3]: 124–126) proposed Calligaster williamsi for the females and males from several places on Luzon Is. and Mindoro Is., with designation of a female from “Los Baños, Luzon” as the holotype.
As listed above, we examined specimens also from Mindanao Is., suggesting this species would be distributed throughout the Philippines Islands except for Palawan Is.
Taxon Treatment
- Nugroho, H; Ubaidillah, R; Kojima, J; 2016: Taxonomy of the Indo-Malayan presocial potter wasp genus Calligaster de Saussure (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research, (48): 19-32. doi
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Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Williams F (1919) Philippine wasp studies. Part 2. Descriptions of new species and life history studies. Bulletin of the Experimental Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Plantation Association 14: 19–187.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Vecht J (1937) Descriptions and records of Oriental and Papuan solitary Vespidae (Hym.). Treubia 16: 261–293.
- ↑ Bequaert J (1940) A new species of Calligaster from the Philippine Islands (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Subfam. Zethinae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 16: 124–126.
