Antepipona bipustulata (de Saussure, 1855)

Li, Ting-Jing, Barthelemy, Christophe & Carpenter, James M., 2019, The Eumeninae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) of Hong Kong (China), with description of two new species, two new synonymies and a key to the known taxa, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 72, pp. 127-176 : 127

Antepipona bipustulata (de Saussure, 1855)

Odynerus bipustulatus de Saussure, 1855: 277, pl. XII fig. 10, locality unknown, MNHN. Type: Male & Female.

Distribution.

China (Hong Kong [?]); India; Sri Lanka; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos; Malaysia; Singapore; Indonesia.

Remarks.

Reported from Hong Kong by Dover (1926) as Odynerus bipustulatus Sauss. Giordani Soika (1982) in his revision of the genus does not list this taxon from Hong Kong nor does he mention Dover. Also, according to the latter the taxon is “Common”, yet we have not collected it and we suspect that Dover may have misidentified this species, probably with the superficially similar (colour markings) Apodynerus formosensis formosensis .