Antepipona de Saussure, 1855

Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, Nguyen, Anh D., Dang, Hoa T., Yamane, Seiki & Engel, Michael S., 2024, Taxonomic review of the potter wasp genus Antepipona de Saussure, 1855 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species and keys to the Oriental fauna, Zoosystema 46 (27), pp. 697-722 : 698

Genus Antepipona de Saussure, 1855

Antepipona de Saussure, 1855: 244 (name for section C of division V of subgenus Leionotus de Saussure, 1852 of genus Odynerus Latreille in de Saussure, 1853: 213; declared available from date of publication by Opinion 893 ( ICZN 1970)).

TYPE SPECIES. — Odynerus silaos de Saussure, 1852 , by subsequent designation van der Vecht (1967): 30; confirmed by Opinion 893.

DIAGNOSIS. — Metanotum bituberculate; forewing prestigma much shorter than pterostigma, second submarginal cell not petiolate; propodeum without deep fossae; axillary fossa oval, broader than long; propodeum with submarginal carina produced into pointed lamella apically, valvula enlarged and free posteriorly from submarginal carina; metasoma not petiolate (TI with width more than half that of TII, much less than twice as long as wide); TII not carinate anterodorsally.

Refer to Kumar et al. (2016) for the diagnoses of Antepipona biguttata , A. bipustulata (de Saussure, 1855) , A. ceylonica ( de Saussure, 1867) , A. rufescens ( Smith, 1857) , and A. tytides ( Cameron, 1904) .

REMARKS

The genus Antepipona was proposed by de Saussure (1855) for what he had earlier classified as section C of division V of the subgenus Leionotus in a more widely circumscribed Odynerus Latreille, 1802 (de Saussure 1853). As was somewhat customary for the time, de Saussure (1855) did not designate a type species and it was not until van der Vecht (1967) that Odynerus silaos de Saussure, 1853 was subsequently selected as the type, thereby fixing the concept of the genus.