Afrepipona tertia Gusenleitner, 2011

Selis, Marco & Carpenter, James M., 2024, Revision of the Afrotropical genus Afrepipona Giordani Soika, 1965 and description of Afrepsilon gen. nov. (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), European Journal of Taxonomy 944, pp. 1-80 : 46-47

Afrepipona tertia Gusenleitner, 2011

Figs 18 , 27M

Afrepipona tertius Gusenleitner, 2011: 423 , 426, 428 (key to males), figs 9–12 (partim, nec 427, 428 (key to females), fig. 13).

Diagnosis

Recognized by the following characters: robust appearance; sharply carinate and strongly protruding interantennal space; occipital carina strong on gena and absent on vertex; pronotal carina forming high lamella; lateral face of pronotum with longitudinal carina; outer face of tegula evenly rounded; T1 much wider than long; barely noticeable apical translucent margin of T2 ( Fig. 18D ); head and mesosoma with sparse punctures and flattened interspaces, punctures on thorax fine and sparse with interspaces as long as several puncture diameters and sparser on posterior half of mesoscutum, posterior margin of scutellum with series of fine punctures, T1 and T2 nearly impunctate. Genitalia in Fig. 27M .

Type material

Holotype

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC • ♂; 90 km NNE of Bangui; 05°03′ N, 18°47′ E; elev. 380 m; 14 Mar. 2010; J. Halada leg.; OLML.

Distribution

Central African Republic ( Gusenleitner 2011).

Remarks

Gusenleitner (2011) originally named this species A. tertius without providing the etymology of the name. The Latin word ‘ tertius ’ can be considered both an adjective ( ‘ tertius ’, meaning ‘third’) and a noun in apposition ( ‘ Tertius ’, translated to ‘Terzo’, a masculine proper noun). In this case Gusenleitner evidently named the species referring to it as the third described species in the genus, making clear that ‘ tertius ’ was used as an adjective. Since Afrepipona is a feminine generic name, the correct specific name is Afrepipona tertia , as an adjective must agree in gender with the generic name.

Examination of a part of the typical series showed that the male holotype and one female paratype belong to different species, with the holotype belonging to Afrepipona and the paratype to an undescribed species in the newly established genus Afrepsilon gen. nov., described below as Afrepsilon pictum gen. et sp. nov. The female clypeus shown in the original description ( Gusenleitner 2011: fig. 13) belongs to the latter, while the male pictures ( Gusenleitner 2011: figs 9–12) belong to a paratype, probably conspecific with the holotype.

The lateral “spines” of S7, mentioned and pictured in the original description, are in fact two dense tufts of setae.

Figures

Fig. 18. Afrepipona tertia Gusenleitner, 2011, ♂, holotype from Bangui (OLML). A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Head, frontal view. C. Flagellum, lateral view. D. T2–3, dorsal view. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 27. Male genitalia: aedeagus in ventral view, aedeagus in lateral view, digitus. A. Afrepipona angusta (de Saussure, 1863) from Adi Keyh (MSVI). B. Afrepipona cellularis sp. nov., holotype from Nyamandhlovu (MSNVE). C. Afrepipona clonata sp. nov., holotype from Nairobi (MSNVE). D. Afrepipona cuprea sp. nov., paratype from Malindi (MSVI). E. Afrepipona lamptoensis Giordani Soika, 1965 from Lamto (AMNH).F. Afrepipona lobulata sp. nov.,holotype from Lubumbashi (AMNH). G. Afrepipona macrocephala (Gribodo, 1894) from Delagoa (MSNVE). H. Afrepipona meridionalis sp. nov., holotype from Durban (MSNVE). I. Afrepipona occidentalis sp. nov., paratype from Lamto (MSNVE).J. Afrepipona punctatissima sp. nov.,holotype from Maralal (MSNVE).K. Afrepipona scabra sp. nov., paratype from Kabongo (MSNVE). L. Afrepipona segregata sp. nov., holotype from Tulear (NHMW). M. Afrepipona tertia Gusenleitner, 2011, holotype from Bangui (OLML). N. Afrepipona ulterior sp. nov., paratype from Pretoria (MSVI). O. Afrepipona vulcanica sp. nov., paratype from Mount Kilimanjaro (MSVI). P. Afrepsilon ferrugineoaureum gen. et sp. nov., paratype from Berea (MSVI). Q. Afrepsilon minor gen. et gen. et sp. nov., holotype from Mount Kilimanjaro (OLML).