Allorhynchium metallicum

43) Allorhynchium metallicum (de Saussure, 1852) Rygchium metallicum de Saussure, 1852: 114. Type data: Lectotype female, MNHN. Type locality: West Bengal, India. Rhynchium maldivense Cameron, 1901a: 57. Odynerus metallicum; Dover & Rao, 1922: 239. Allorhynchium metallicum; van der Vecht, 1963: 60. Allorhynchium maldivense; Giordani Soika, 1986a: 140. Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Dodaballapur, 04.ii.2015, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath; Yelahanka Bengaluru, 04.iv.2016, 2 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh. Bangalore, GKVK, 930 m, 13°04’ N 77°34’ E, 26.ii.2012, 1♀; 4, 19, 28.v.2012, 4♀; 18.x.2012, 1♀; 1.ii.2014, 1♂, coll. A. Pannure. Kerala: Kannur, Madayipara, 38 m, 12°01’ N 75°15’ E, 13.viii.2015, 2♀, coll. C. Prashantha. Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep Islands, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: China (including Taiwan); Indonesia; Maldive Islands; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka. (Giordani Soika 1992, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014a, 2014b 2015a & 2015b, Girish Kumar et al. 2016 a, Pannure et al. 2016, Rafi et al. 2017, Sheikh et al. 2017, Tan et. al. 2018, Girish Kumar et al. 2019b).Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 4784 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/386231