Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) lativentris (de Saussure, 1855)

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) lativentris (de Saussure, 1855)

Figs 46-52

Odynerus lativentris de Saussure 1855: 275; Berland, 1928: 37 (key), 52, fig. 69.

Pseudepipona lativentris ; Blüthgen 1938 (1937): 279; 1951: 171, 193; 1952: 353; Giordani Soika 1953: 247; Blüthgen 1953: 6; 1956: 7; Giordani Soika 1970: 143; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 84; Castro 1986: 295; Yildirim and Gusenleitner 2004: 133; Castro and Dvořák 2009: 298.

Pseudepipona lativentris lativentris ; Castro 1992: 27.

Material examined.

2♀♀, CHINA, Ningxia, Zhongwei City, Zhongning County, Majialiang Township , Shagou Village , 37.353°N, 105.572°E, 28.VII.2020, Qian Han & Qianchen Wang (CNU) ; 1♀, CHINA, Ningxia, Yinchuan City, Helan County, Yueyahu Township , Near the Gobi Desert in Beier Village , 106.643°N, 38.627°E, 22.VII.2020, Qian Han (CNU) ; 1♀, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Hohhot, Hasuhai .

Diagnosis.

Female body length 10.0-11.0 mm, body largely ferruginous (Fig. 46 ), this species greatly similar to P. kozhevnikovi (Kostylev, 1927) in coloration except mesoscutum without two curved comma-shaped ferruginous spots and metasomal segment 2 mostly black (Figs 47-52 ); clypeus (Fig. 48 ) as wide as long; in female apex of clypeus truncate, not emarginate (Fig. 48 ); lateral carina of propodeum obviously tooth-shaped (Fig. 50 ), horizontal carina between dorsal and posterior surfaces of propodeum strong and distinct; T1 basally with lateral short raised carina (Fig. 52 ).

Distribution.

China (Ningxia, Inner Mongolia); Portugal; Spain, including Balearic Islands; Italy, including Sardinia; Switzerland; Morocco; Turkey; Armenia; Russia; Israel; Lebanon; Iran; Turkmenistan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan.

Figures

Figures 46 - 52. Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) lativentris (de Saussure, 1855) 46 habitus in dorsal view, ♀ 47 vertex, ♀ 48 head in frontal view, ♀ 49 mesosoma, ♀ 50 propodeum in dorsal view, ♀ 51 metasoma in ventral view, ♀ 52 metasoma in dorsal view, ♀.