67) Antepipona ovalis (de Saussure, 1853)

Vespa quadripunctata Fabricius 1787: 291 . Type data: Male, UZMC. Type locality: “in India orientali Dom. Lundi”.

Odynerus ovalis de Saussure 1853: 215 . Type data: Male MSNG Type locality: Puducherry (Pondicherry), India .

Odynerus hindostanus Cameron 1900: 504 . Type data: OUM. Type locality: Barrackpore, West Bengal, India.

Odontodynerus ovalis: Blüthgen 1960: 279 .

Lionotus ovalis: Baltazar 1966: 302 .

Antepipona ovalis: van der Vecht 1970: 16 .

Material examined. INDIA: Gujarat: AAU Anand, 27.xi.2015, 18 ♀ & 4 ♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas & Umeshku- mar. Karnataka: Yelahanka Bengaluru, 22.iv.2017, 3 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh ; 26.iv.2017, 2 ♀, Coll. Ash- wath & Sandesh; 03.v.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh , 15.v.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh; Sirsi, 20.vi.2016, 2 F & 1 ♂, Coll. Ashwath ; Kailashgiri Kolar, 04.i.2014, 4 ♀, Coll. Rajesh ; Kanakpura, 07.i.2014, 2 ♀, Coll. Naveen ; Kunigal, 05.xii.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath ; Chintamani, 09.iv.2013, 1 ♀, Coll. Rajesh ; 21.ii.2015, 2 ♀, Coll. Rajesh. Odisha: OUAT Bhubaneshwar, 26.i.2017, 2 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas. Tamil Nadu: Tenkasi, ii.2015, 1 ♀, Coll. Naveenkumar ; Tirunelveli, ii.2013, 1 ♀, Coll. Naveen.

Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan; Bangladesh; China; Pakistan; Sri Lanka. (Giordani Soika 1982 b, Gusenleitner 2006, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015b, Girish Kumar et al. 2016b, Pannure et al. 2016, Rafi et al. 2017, Sheikh et al. 2017, Gawas et al. 2019).