Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) przewalskyi (Morawitz, 1885)

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) przewalskyi (Morawitz, 1885)

Figs 53-64

Lionotus przewalskyi Morawitz 1885: 161.

Odynerus tripunctatus ; Giordani Soika 1935: 184, 192.

Odynerus tripunctatus var. convergens Giordani Soika 1935: 184, 192; Giordani Soika 1943: 36; 1973: 35; Borsato and Ratti 1999: 86 (syn. of P. przewalskyi (Morawitz).

Pseudepipona nekt ; Blüthgen 1938 (1937): 295; Giordani Soika 1943: 37 ( O. nekt = Odynerus tripunctatus sensu Giordani Soika 1935; 1952: 8, 39; Blüthgen 1952b: 19; Giordani Soika 1958 (1957): 131-132; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 85; Guichard 1986 (1985): 213, 221.

Pseudepipona przewalskyi ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 85; Gusenleitner 1991: 631, 636; 1994: figs 7, 9.

Odynerus tripunctatus convergens ; Giordani Soika 1973: 14; Borsato and Ratti 1999: 77.

Material examined.

2♀♀, CHINA, Xinjiang, Akesu Prefecture, Kuche County to Baicheng County S307 4-5 km, 41.883°N, 82.801°E, 30.VII.2019, Jie Chen (CNU) ; 1♀, CHINA, Xinjiang, Akesu Prefecture, Baicheng County, Jinhui industrial area, Ruifeng, 41.741°N, 81.643°E, 30.VII.2019, Lingzhi Zhao (CNU) ; 2♀♀, CHINA, Gansu, Zhangye City, Linze County, Near Banqiao Town , 39.309°N, 100.409°E, 29.VI.2019, Xue Zhang (CNU) ; 1♂, CHINA, Gansu, Zhangye City, Linze County, Near Banqiao Town , 39.309°N, 100.409°E, 29.VI.2019, Xue Zhang (CNU) ; 1♂, CHINA, Xinjiang, Akesu Prefecture, Kuche County to Baicheng County S307 4-5 km, 41.883°N, 82.801°E, 30.VII.2019, Jie Chen (CNU) ; 5♂♂, CHINA, Xinjiang, Akesu Prefecture, Baicheng County, Jinhui industrial area, Ruifeng, 41.741°N, 81.643°E, 30.VII.2019, Lingzhi Zhao (CNU) ; 1♂, CHINA, Xinjiang, Akesu Prefecture , Baicheng County, Near the Charzi Town S 307, 30.VII.2019, Lingzhi Zhao (CNU) .

Diagnosis.

Female body length 10.5-12.0 mm, male body length 9.0-11.5 mm; body mostly ferruginous (Figs 53-54 ), with the following parts black: inner margin and apex of mandible, two oblique narrow stripes on frons, vertex (Fig. 56 ), in male A6-A13 (A13 dark ferruginous) (Fig. 55 ), mesoscutum, anterior margin of scutellum, ventral side of mesosoma (Fig. 61 ), posterior face of propodeum medially (in female black area smaller) (Figs 59-60 ), a transverse spot on the base of T2 and metasomal segments 3-7 (in some specimens S3 basally ferruginous) (Figs 62-64 ); apex of fore wing dark; clypeus as wide as long; pronotal carina medially prominent and flat tooth-shaped (Figs 59-60 ); T1 moderately punctate, basally without lateral carina; T2 largely with few sparse and minute shallow punctures, and apically with denser minute punctures (Figs 63-64 ).

Distribution.

China (Gansu, Xinjiang); Egypt; Israel; United Arab Emirates; Mongolia.

Figures

Figures 53 - 64. Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) przewalskyi (Morawitz, 1885) 53 habitus in dorsal view, ♀ 54 habitus in dorsal view, ♂ 55 antenna, ♀ 56 vertex, ♀ 57 head in frontal view, ♂ 58 head in frontal view, ♀ 59 mesosoma, ♀ 60 mesosoma, ♂ 61 mesosoma in lateral view, ♀ 62 metasoma in ventral view, ♀ 63 metasoma in dorsal view, ♀ 64 metasoma in dorsal view, ♂.