Brachypipona Gusenleitner, 1967

Fateryga, A. V., 2020, A new species of the genus Brachypipona Gusenleitner, 1967 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Kazakhstan, Far Eastern Entomologist 398, pp. 18-23 : 19

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scientific name	Brachypipona Gusenleitner, 1967
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Genus Brachypipona Gusenleitner, 1967 View in CoL

Brachypipona Gusenleitner, 1967: 671–672 View in CoL (as subgenus of Pseudepipona de Saussure,

1856); 2001: 235–236; 2004: 1102–1104; 2013: 20; 2018: 303–304; Kurzenko, 1982:

104; Castro & Dvořák, 2009: 296; Antropov & Fateryga, 2017: 180.

Desertodynerus Kurzenko, 1977: 957–958 . Type species Desertodynerus gratus Kurzenko,

1977, by monotypy and original designation; synonymized by Kurzenko, 1982: 104.

Type species Pseudepipona (Brachypipona) schmidti Gusenleitner, 1967 , by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS. Representatives of the genus can be distinguished from the closely related genus Pseudepipona de Saussure, 1856 by having tegula coarsely punctured and propodeal valvula acutely pointed posteriorly. Females of Brachypipona also have broader clypeus with more broadly emarginate anterior margin and shorter mandibles in comparison with the females of Pseudepipona .

SPECIES INCLUDED. Brachypipona grata (Kurzenko, 1977) ( Kazakhstan) , B.

hispanica (Giordani Soika, 1974) ( Spain), B. kurzenkoi Fateryga , sp. n. ( Kazakhstan), B.

laticeps (Morawitz, 1895) ( Russia, Kazakhstan), B. longicornis (Morawitz, 1895) (Turkme-

nistan, Uzbekistan), B. nigripes Gusenleitner, 2018 ( Kazakhstan) , B. orientalis Gusenleitner,

2004 ( Turkey, Iran), B. schlaeflei Gusenleitner, 2001 ( Jordan, Israel), B. schmidti

(Gusenleitner, 1967) ( Turkey).