Okinawepipona curcipunctura Nguyen & Xu, 2014

Nguyen, Hieu Van, Nguyen, Manh Thanh & Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, 2024, Discovery of the male of Okinawepipona yty Nguyen, 2018 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Vietnam, Zootaxa 5399 (1), pp. 79-84 : 81-83

Okinawepipona curcipunctura Nguyen & Xu, 2014

Figs. 8–10

Okinawepipona curcipunctura Nguyen & Xu, 2014: 41 , 42, 44 (key), male – “ Guangdong, Nanling National Nature Reserve” (SCAU).

This species is known only from the type locality in China .

Genitalia.As in Figs. 8–10 . Parameral spine lacking setae. Volsella flattened, spatulate, wide on inner aspect, and without setae at top ( Fig. 8 ). Digitus knife-shaped, almost parallel at one-third from base, then gradually narrowing to top, with medium long setae on outer margin ( Fig. 8 ). Penis valves of aedeagus long, about 1.7× as long as basal apodeme, in ventral view proximal part produced laterally into a round lobe, lobe gradually narrowing at inner margin apically ( Fig. 9 ); in profile apical part produced into a pointed projection ( Fig. 10 ); dorsal rod of aedeagus longer than basal apodeme apically ( Fig. 10 ).

Figures

FIGURES 5–10. Okinawepipona yty Nguyen, 2018, male (5–7) and Okinawepipona curcipunctura Nguyen & Xu, 2014, male (8–10): 5, 8 Genitalia, inner aspect of paramere with volsella and digitus 6, 9 Aedeagus, ventral view 7, 10 Aedeagus, lateral view. Scale bars = 1 mm.