Epsilon dyscherum (Saussure, 1852)

Zhang, Xue, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2020, Taxonomy of the genus Epsilon from China, with a new species and an updated key to the Oriental species (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae), ZooKeys 910, pp. 131-142 : 131

Epsilon dyscherum (Saussure, 1852)

Odynerus dyscherus de Saussure 1853: 175.

Odynerus xanthozonatus Williams 1928: 80, 82, 99; van der Vecht 1937: 290.

Epsilon dyscherus Gusenleitner 1996: 42; Li et al. 2019: 145, 147.

Material examined.

1♀, China, Hong Kong, Ping Shan Chai, hand net, 30.v.2015, UTM: 50Q KK 106883, 140 m, ref.: 0546.B.Hy.2, Christophe Barthélémy, leg.

Diagnosis.

Clypeus almost black, shallowly emarginated at apex, apical width about 1/3 of clypeal width; ocelli small, much less than distance between anterior and posterior ocelli; interocellar area with dense coarse punctures in female; parategula board basally; tergum II with punctures, interspaces between punctures generally greater than diameters, and with short apical lamella; figures as figs 68-70 in Li et al (2019).

Distribution.

China (Hong Kong); Philippines.