Pseudepipona pseudominuta Gusenleitner, 1971

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

Pseudepipona pseudominuta Gusenleitner, 1971

Pseudepipona pseudominuta Gusenleitner in Bytinski-Salz and Gusenleitner 1971: 295, ♀; type locality: "Israel, Jericho".

Distribution.

Turkey, Israel ( Gusenleitner 2013).

Remarks.

Pseudepipona pseudominuta was also described without indication of the subgenus and thus was then placed in the nominotypical one by default. However, this species is "very similar to P. niveopicta " ( Bytinski-Salz and Gusenleitner 1971) and the latter taxon has been already transferred to the subgenus Pseudepipona Deuterepipona by Fateryga et al. (2017). A female and a male of P. pseudominuta from Turkey (FSCV) were examined to confirm that it fits the diagnosis of the subgenus Pseudepipona Deuterepipona . Particularly, the male mandible is without a notch between the basal and preapical teeth.