Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) herrichii (de Saussure, 1856)

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) herrichii (de Saussure, 1856)

Figs 35-45

Odynerus herrichii de Saussure 1856: 309; Kokujev 1927: 72; Berland 1928: 35, 45.

Odynerus basalis Smith 1857: 58.

Pseudepipona herrichii var. derufata Blüthgen 1951: 184.

Pseudepipona variegata ; Blüthgen 1952a: 352.

Pseudepipona variegata var. derufata ; Blüthgen 1953: 6; 1955: 8; 1956: 7.

Pseudepipona herrichii ; Giordani Soika 1958 (1957): 130; van der Vecht 1966: 164; Giordani Soika 1970: 143; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 83; Madl 1997: 825; Gusenleitner 2008: 38; Yildirim and Gusenleitner 2009: 939.

Material examined.

1♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain, Yaoba Huangqukou , 38°35.712'N, 105°49.261'E, 27.VII.2010 , Zejian Li; 2♀♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain , VII.2010 , Fangzhou Ma (YNAU); 2♀♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain, Halawugou , 22.VII.2006 , Tingjing Li & Haiyan Zhang (YNAU); 2♀♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain, Shuimogou , 25-27.VII.2010 , Fangzhou Ma (YNAU); 7♀♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain, Ganshuwan , 5.VIII.2010 , Fangzhou Ma (YNAU); 1♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain, Huangqukou , 5.VIII.2010 , Dingjie Zhang (YNAU); 2♀♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain, Xiangchizi , 25.VIII.2013 , Li Jiang (YNAU); 1♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Ulan Qab City, Liangcheng County, Daihai Town , 21.VII.2012 , Xin Zhou (CNU); 1♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Tongliao City, Horqin District, Qinghe Town , 18.VII.2012 , Xin Zhou & Ju You (CNU); 1♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Aershan City , 12.VIII.1997 ; Guodong Ren; 1♀, CHINA, Hebei Paddock , 28.VI.1994 , Guodong Ren (MHBU); 2♀♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Zhengxiangbai Banner , 5-27.VII.2002 , Yuanchao Guo; 2♀♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Ximengbai Banner , 22.VII-7.VIII.1980 , Yuanchao Guo; 2♀♀, CHINA, Shanxi, Huanglong County, Shibao Town , 2.VIII.2012 , Ju You & Yuan Bai (CNU); 1♀, CHINA, Shanxi, Baoji City, Mei County, Jinqu Town , 14.VIII.2015 , Zhenxia Ma & Lingquan Zeng (CNU); 1♀, CHINA, Ningxia, Yinchuan City, Helan County, Jingui Town , 38.487°N, 106.410°E, 30.VII.2016 , Zhenxia Ma & Xiaoqin Cheng (CNU); 1♀, CHINA, Ningxia, Jingyuan County, Liupanshan Town , 35.663°N, 106.285°E, 25.VII.2016 , Zhenxia Ma & Wenkai Zhou (CNU); 1♀, CHINA, Ningxia, Shizuishan City, Pingluo County, Taole Town , Madagou Village , Sixth Team , 38.817°N, 106.742°E, 20.VII.2020 , Qian Han (CNU); 1♀, CHINA, Hebei, Yu County, Xiaowutai Mountain , 11-17.VII.2002 , 2001 Class of Biological Sciences (MHBU) ; 1♀, CHINA, Shanxi, Huashan , 22.VIII.1962 , Fasheng Li (CAU); 1♀, CHINA, Xinjiang, Fuyun County, Langgou , 1.VII.2002 ; 1♀: CHINA, Dazhao Mountain , 27.VII.1948 ; 2♂♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Helan Mountain, Halau Shatangzi , 38°51.938'N, 105°55.550'E, 4.VIII.2010 , Zejian Li & Junzhe Xue; 4♂♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Helan Mountain, Shuimogou Hougou , 38°56.956'N, 105°58.611'E, 9.VIII.2010 , Zejian Li & Junzhe Xue; 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Helan Mountain, Gulaben Xiaosongshan , 39°05.011'N, 105°59.366'E, 30.VII.2010 , Zejian Li & Junzhe Xue; 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain , VIII.2010 , Dingjie Zhang (YNAU); 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain, Zhonggutian , 3.VIII.2010 , Fangzhou Ma (YNAU); 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain, Qianggangling , 8.VIII.2010 , Fangzhou Ma (YNAU); 2♂♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain, Shuimogou , 25-27.VII.2010 , Fangzhou Ma (YNAU); 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa League, Helan Mountain South Temple , 11.VII.2005 , Zhi Ling; 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alxa Ancient Town , 24.VIII.2013 , Jian Zhu (YNAU); 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Heiniugou , 23.VII.1990 (IMAU) ; 1♂, CHINA, Xinjiang, Altay City, Fuyun County, Kalatongke Township , Near S 226, 46.916°N, 89.589°E, 20.VII.2019 , Lingzhi Zhao (CNU); 1♂, CHINA, Xinjiang, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Gongliu County, Tiermutu , 43.433°N, 82.033°E, 28.VII.2019 , Lingzhi Zhao (CNU); 1♂, CHINA, Xinjiang, Altay City, Aweitan Town, Koktobe Village , 47.721°N, 88.064°E, 21.VII.2019 , Qian Han (CNU); 1♂, CHINA, Heilongjiang, 20 Mile Ferry of Nenjiang River , 2.VIII.2004 , Guodong Ren & Wenjun Hou (MHBU); 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Ximeng Bai Banner , 9.VII.2003 , Kai Shi; 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Helan Mountain , 4.VII.2002 , Xiaoshuan Bai (CNU).

Diagnosis.

Female body length 10-12 mm, male body length 6.5-10 mm (Figs 35-36 ); body black and T1-T4 apically with whitish yellow bands (Figs 35-36 ), with the following parts ferruginous: in female lateral spot of clypeus basally (Fig. 39 ), one small spot on gena (Fig. 38 ), in male A13 (Fig. 37 ), base of pronotum (Fig. 41 ), tegula, parategula, legs except coxae, trochanters and bases of femora, lateral side of T1, and S1 (Figs 44-45 ); in male clypeus and mandible except apex (Fig. 40 ), one below elongate spot along inner ocular margin, one long transverse band of scutellum at subapex, one small upper spot on mesopleuron (Fig. 43 ), and posterior surface of metanotum whitish yellow; clypeus wider than long (1.05 × in female, 1.11 × in male); lateral carina of propodeum distinctly tooth-shaped (Figs 41-42 ); horizontal carina between dorsal and posterior surfaces of propodeum thin and indistinct (Fig. 42 ); T1 basally without lateral carina (Fig. 45 ).

Distribution.

China (Heilongjiang, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shanxi, Xinjiang); England; Spain; Switzerland; Germany; Austria; Belarus; Ukraine; Greece; Turkey; Syria; Armenia; Turkmenistan.

Figures

Figures 35 - 45. Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) herrichii (de Saussure, 1856) 35 habitus in dorsal view, ♀ 36 habitus in dorsal view, ♂ 37 antenna, ♂ 38 vertex, ♀ 39 head in frontal view, ♀ 40 head in frontal view, ♂ 41 mesosoma, ♀ 42 propodeum in dorsal view, ♀ 43 mesosoma in lateral view, ♀ 44 metasoma in ventral view, ♀ 45 metasoma in dorsal view, ♀.