Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) straminea ( Andre 1884) Bai & Chen & Li, 2021

Bai, Yue, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2021, A new species and two new records of the genus Pseudepipona de Saussure, 1856 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from China, with a key to the Chinese species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 82, pp. 285-304 : 285

Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) straminea ( Andre 1884) new record

Figs 18-25

Odynerus stramineus André 1884: 745; Kostylev 1940: 31; Gusenleitner 2001: 214.

Pseudepipona straminea ; Blüthgen 1938 (1937): 295; 1951: 189; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 86.

Material examined.

1♀, CHINA, Xinjiang, Bayingol Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, Near the desert road from Luntai County to Lunnan Town , 41.335°N, 84.205°E, 2.VIII.2019, Tingjing Li (CNU) .

Diagnosis.

Body length 10.8 mm; body sulfur yellow or obsolete green (Fig. 18 ), with the following parts black: inner margin and apex of mandible, two oblique narrow stripes on frons, vertex (Fig. 20 ), dorsal sides, A6-A12 (Fig. 19 ), mesoscutum except a through M-shaped yellow stripe, anterior margins of scutellum and metanotum, ventral side of mesosoma (Fig. 24 ), anterior margin and posterior face of propodeum medially, and basal transverse bands T1-T2; apical margin of fore wing dark; clypeus slightly longer than wide, with sparse and shallow punctures (Fig. 21 ); scutellum (Fig. 22 ) sparsely punctate, interspaces between punctures polished; lateral carina of propodeum tooth-shaped (Fig. 23 ), horizontal carina between dorsal and posterior surfaces of propodeum strong and distinct (Fig. 23 ); T1 basally without lateral carina (Fig. 25 ), each apex of T1-T5 with relatively denser punctures than other parts.

Male.

Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Xinjiang); western Asia.

Figures

Figures 18 - 25. Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) straminea (Andre 1884) 18 habitus in dorsal view, ♀ 19 antenna, ♀ 20 vertex, ♀ 21 head in frontal view, ♀ 22 mesosoma, ♀ 23 propodeum in dorsal view, ♀ 24 mesosoma in lateral view, ♀ 25 metasoma in dorsal view, ♀.