Malayepipona clypeata Nguyen & Carpenter, 2012

Bai, Yue, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2021, Two newly recorded genera Malayepipona Giordani Soika and Megaodynerus Gusenleitner, with eight new species from China (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae), Zootaxa 5060 (3), pp. 371-391 : 387

Malayepipona clypeata Nguyen & Carpenter, 2012

( Figs 68–76 )

Material examined. 1♀, China, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Xingan County, Jinshi Township , 6.VII.2006 ( CNU) ; 1♀, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Laibin City , Jinxiu County, Dayao Mountain , 20.VII.2015, Yuting Hong ( CNU) ; 2♀, Guizhou Province, Qiannan Prefecture, Maolan Nature Reserve, Dongdai Village , 21. VI .2015, Tingjing Li ( CNU).

Diagnosis. Female ( Fig. 68 ). Body length about 12.1–13.2 mm; forewing length about 11.5–12.5 mm; body covered with short, ferruginous setae except lower part of propodeum with dense long silver setae; black, with the following parts orange-yellow: two large spots on upper lateral corners and two small spots at apex of clypeus (some specimens without apical small spots), interantennal spot, narrow band along inner eye margin extending from bottom of frons to nearly ocular sinus, scape ventrally, narrow apical band of T1, narrow apical band of T2 (some specimens without apical band of T2), spots on inner side of fore tibia, upper part of middle and hind femora; mandible mostly and anterior thin band of pronotum medially dark ferruginous; wings dark brown, strongly infuscate, with purple reflective, causing a dark spot at apex of marginal cell of forewing inconspicous ( Fig. 68 ); head and mesosoma with very coarse punctures, interspaces strongly carinate and reticulate ( Figs 68–74 ); clypeus apically forming a pair of sharp tooth ( Fig. 69 ); pronotal carina slightly produced at humeral angles ( Fig. 74 ); vertex with two small cephalic foveae, bearing dense pubescence, foveae almost as big as nearby punctures and unobvious, and behind foveae somewhat smooth and shiny; scutellum with shallow longitudinal furrow medially ( Fig. 74 ); propodeum ( Figs 71–72, 74 ) dorsally and laterally with deep, coarse, flat-bottomed punctures, interspaces strongly carinate and reticulate (the specimen from Guangxi dorsally smooth and just with several punctures ( Fig. 73 )), and upper part of propodeum forming a pair of relatively blunt teeth behind metanotum; dorsal and posterior surfaces connected by a sharp edge; posterior and lateral surface connected by sharply angulate; T1 ( Fig. 75 ) basally truncate and with raised edge and transverse carina), T2 without apical lamella; S2 ( Fig. 76 ) in lateral view slightly convex to apical margin, in frontal view concave at base.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. China (new record: Guangxi, Guizhou), Vietnam.

Figures

FIGURES 68–76. Malayepipona clypeata, ♀. 68. Habitus, dorsal view; 69. Head, frontal view; 70. Head, dorsal view; 71. Pro- podeum, posterior view; 72. Mesosoma, lateral view; 73. Propodeum, dorsal view; 74. Mesosoma, dorsal view; 75. Metasoma, dorsal view; 76. Metasoma, ventral view.