Parancistrocerus jaferpaloti Girish Kumar & Carpenter, 2016 Figs 33–40 Parancistrocerus jaferpaloti Girish Kumar & Carpenter, 2016: 144. Material examined. 4♁, China, Yunnan Province, Jinghong City, Xishuangbannan Forest Park, 31.VII.2003, Tingjing Li (CNU). Diagnosis. Body length 5.5–6.1 mm in male, setae sparse and short, body black, with yellow markings (Fig. 33); clypeus (Fig. 34) entirely yellow, longer than wide; A13 pointed at apex and not reaching the base of A11 (Fig. 36); occipital carina incomplete, evanescent on vertex (Figs 33, 35); median sloping area of anterior face of pronotum polished and each side punctate (Fig. 35); propodeum sloping downward just behind metanotum, dorsal carina strong; T1 wider than long and with large dense punctures, basal transverse carina strongly raised (Fig. 37); T2 (Figs 38–39) apically with yellow and wavy band, swollen obviously, with a row of large and regular punctures close to margin, not forming raised submargin, margin narrow and not prolonged medially; S2 with shallow and indistinct longitudinal furrow; T3 wholly archedly prolonged, apex of prolongation polished (Fig. 39); S3 just archedly prolonged medially (Fig. 40). Female (in Girish Kumar et al. 2016). Body length 6.5 mm. Sculpture, punctuation, setae, and coloration similar to male except as follows: clypeus with yellow marking, except a brownish black spot at middle and brownish black outer border (Figs 13–18 in Girish Kumar et al. 2016); clypeus less emarginate at apex. Distribution. China (Yunnan); India.

Published as part of Qin, Jiong, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2023, Additions to the knowledge of the genus Parancistrocerus Bequaert, 1925 from China (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), pp. 345-357 in Zootaxa 5256 (4) on pages 354-356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5256.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7755164