Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) augusta (Morawitz, 1867)

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) augusta (Morawitz, 1867)

Figs 26-34

Odynerus augustus Morawitz 1867: 122; Dalla Torre 1889: 124; 1894: 9; Morawitz 1895: 468; Dalla Torre 1904: 1-108.

Euodynerus augustus ; Blüthgen 1938 (1937): 279.

Pseudepipona augusta ; Blüthgen 1961: 68, 134; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 83; Castro and Dvořák 2009: 298.

Material examined.

1♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, 70 kilometers west of Xilinhaote City, Abaga Banner , 43°58'47.08"N, 115°9'16.82"E, 7.VIII.2014, Tuya Han (IMNU) ; 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Ximeng Bai Banner , 10.VII.2001, Yuanchao Guo ; 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Xiwu Banner , 18.VII.2003, Xiuhua Lv (IMNU) ; 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Bayan Obo Mining District , 3.VIII.1991, Guodong Ren (IMNU) .

Diagnosis.

Female body length 8.3 mm, male body length 6.0-7.0 mm; body largely ferruginous and T1-T4 apically with white bands (Figs 26-27 ), with the following parts black: inner margin and apex of mandible, frons (Figs 30-31 ), vertex (Fig. 29 ), dorsal side of antenna (Fig. 28 ), mesoscutum, base of scutellum, ventral side of mesosoma, posterior face of propodeum medially, in female T2 except white apical band (Figs 26 , 34 ), in male shot basal and subapical bands of T2 (Fig. 27 ), and S2-S6 or S7 except white lateral spots (Fig. 33 ); in male clypeus whitish yellow (Fig. 31 ); clypeus wider than long; A13 small, sharp and backward to the base of A12 (Fig. 28 ); lateral carina of propodeum indistinctly tooth-shaped (Fig. 32 ); horizontal carina between dorsal and posterior surfaces of propodeum strong and distinct (Fig. 32 ); T1 basally without lateral carina (Fig. 34 ).

Distribution.

China (Inner Mongolia); Hungary; Slovakia; Ukraine; Russia; Kazakhstan; Mongolia.

Figures

Figures 26 - 34. Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) augusta (Morawitz, 1867) 26 habitus in dorsal view, ♀ 27 habitus in dorsal view, ♂ 28 antenna, ♂ 29 vertex, ♀ 30 head in frontal view, ♀ 31 head in frontal view, ♂ 32 mesosoma, ♀ 33 metasoma in ventral view, ♀ 34 metasoma in dorsal view, ♀.