Parodontodynerus ephippium (Klug, 1817)

Fateryga, Alexander V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, New records of the solitary Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae and Eumeninae s. l.) from Central Asia, with new synonyms and description of a new species of Eumenes Latreille, Zootaxa 5529 (3), pp. 551-569 : 563

Parodontodynerus ephippium (Klug, 1817)

Eumenes ephippium Klug in Germar 1817: 264 (type locality: “ Fiume und Cherso ” [ Croatia]).

Odynerus dubius de Saussure, 1853: 193 , ♀ (type locality: “ La France méridionale”).

Odynerus opacus Morawitz, 1867: 124 , ♀ ♂ (type locality: “ Gouvernement von Saratow ” [ Russia]).

Odynerus schulthessi Dusmet y Alonso, 1903: 186 , ♀ ♂ (type locality: “ Villalba en Madrid.— Villaviciosa en Madrid.— Los Molinos en Madrid ” [ Spain]).

Odontodynerus ephippium anatoliae Giordani Soika, 1952a: 385 , ♂ (type locality: “ Anatolia: Toros. Bürücek” [ Turkey]), synonymized by Gusenleitner 2000: 59.

Parodontodynerus ephippium dalanicus Kurzenko, 1976: 436 , ♀ ♂ (type locality: “КаЗахстан, хр. Заилийский АлатаУ, УЩелье Большой Далан” [ Kazakhstan, Trans-Ili Alatau Range , Bolshoy Dalan Canyon]), syn. nov.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE Of PARODONTODYNERUS EPHIPPIUM DALANICUS : ♀, labeled “Хр. ЗАИЛИЙСК. / АЛАТАУ. УЩ. БОЛ. / ДАЛАН. [Trans-Ili Alatau Range, Bolshoy Dalan Canyon] 10.VI.1971 / Н. КУРЗЕНКО. [N. Kurzenko] // Holotypus Parodonto- / dynerus ephippium / dalanicus Kurzenko / ssp. nov. ♀ [red label]” [ FSCV] . PARATYPES Of PARODONTODYNERUS EPHIPPIUM DALANICUS : KAZAKHSTAN. Almaty Province: Trans-Ili Alatau Range, Bolshoy Dalan Canyon , 19.VI.1971, 2 ♂, leg. N. Kurzenko [ FSCV]; vicinity of Almaty, 19.VII.1969, 1 ♀, leg. V. Kazenas [ FSCV]; ibid., 6.VII.1974, 1 ♀, leg. N. Kurzenko [ FSCV]; Toksanbay Range, vicinity of Koksu, 6.VII.1974, 1 ♀, leg. N. Kurzenko [ FSCV]. Additinal material (new records). KYRGYZSTAN: Lower reaches of Bogemskoye Canyon, 1–2 km below Chong-Kemin River mouth, 31.VII.2000, 1 ♀, leg. V. Dubatolov [ ISEN]; S coast of Issyk-Kul Lake , 10 km E Kadzhi-Say, 22.VII.2001, 1 ♀, leg. V. Dubatolov [ ISEN] .

Distribution. Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe, Russia (European part), Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, * Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan.

Remarks. The subspecies P. ephippium dalanicus was described from Kazakhstan as just a dark form of P. ephippium but such a form is within the variability of this species. Similar forms occur in other parts of its range, even in Eastern Europe. Kurzenko even synonymized P. ephippium dalanicus by himself in his thesis manuscript in 1978.