Pseudepipona Deuterepipona Bluethgen , 1951

Fateryga, Alexander V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2022, Contribution to the taxonomy of the Pseudepipona subgenus Deuterepipona Bluethgen, 1951 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from Central Asia, with the description of four new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 93, pp. 101-123 : 101

Subgenus Pseudepipona Deuterepipona Bluethgen, 1951

Deuterepipona Blüthgen, 1951: 194. Type species: Odynerus ionius de Saussure, 1855, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Male mandible without a notch between the basal and preapical teeth; pronotal carina usually forming obtuse or rounded angle laterally.

Species included.

Pseudepipona ankarensis Giordani Soika, 1970 (Turkey), P. herzi (Morawitz, 1895) (Israel, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China), P. inexspectata ( Blüthgen, 1955) (Italy), P. ionia (de Saussure, 1855) (Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Syria), P. kostylevi Fateryga, sp. nov. (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan), P. nikolayi Fateryga, sp. nov. (Kazakhstan), P. niveopicta Giordani Soika, 1970 (Russia, Turkey), P. popovi Fateryga, sp. nov. (Turkmenistan), P. priesneri Gusenleitner, 1970 (Saudi Arabia, Iran), P. pseudominuta Gusenleitner, 1971 (Turkey, Israel), P. superba (Morawitz, 1867) (Russia,?Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan), and P. vladimiri Fateryga, sp. nov. (Kazakhstan).

Remarks.

Pseudepipona priesneri and P. pseudominuta are transferred to the subgenus Pseudepipona Deuterepipona from the nominotypical one (see below).