Pseudepipona priesneri Gusenleitner, 1970

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 priesneri Gusenleitner, 1970

Pseudepipona priesneri Gusenleitner in Blüthgen and Gusenleitner 1970: 5, 10-11, ♀ ♂; type locality: "Jarrahi Ufergebiet, 18 km nordöstl. Shadegan, Khuzistan" [Iran].

Distribution.

Saudi Arabia, Iran ( Blüthgen and Gusenleitner 1970).

Remarks.

This species was described without indication of the subgenus and thus was then placed in the nominotypical one by default. However, P. priesneri fits the diagnosis of the subgenus Pseudepipona Deuterepipona . Particularly, the male mandible is without a notch between the basal and preapical teeth ( Blüthgen and Gusenleitner 1970). Photos of a female and a male paratypes of this species from Iran (Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany) were examined to confirm this. It is also of note that P. priesneri is very closely related (or may be even conspecific) to P. herzi ; the differences between them are only in the coloration. Therefore, a further study of the specimens (not photos) is necessary to confirm the taxonomic independence of P. priesneri .