Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) kozhevnikovi (Kostylev, 1927) Bai & Chen & Li, 2021

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) kozhevnikovi (Kostylev, 1927) new record

Figs 8-17

Odynerus kozhevnikovi Kostylev 1927: 78, fig. 4.

Pseudepipona kozhevnikovi ; Blüthgen 1938 (1937): 295; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 84.

Material examined.

5♀♀, CHINA, Gansu, Zhangye City, Gaotai County, Heiquan Town , Yanzhibao Village , 39.607°N, 99.654°E, 1.VII.2019, Xue Zhang (CNU) ; 1♂, CHINA, Gansu, Jiayuguan City, Xincheng Town, Anyuangou Village , 39.787°N, 98.322°E, 22.VI.2019, Xue Zhang (CNU) .

Diagnosis.

Female body length 10.0-11.0 mm, male body length 9.5 mm (Figs 8-9 ); body largely ferruginous, with the following parts black: inner margin and apex of mandible, a small spot of clypeus in female, frons, vertex (Fig. 11 ), antenna except A1-A2 (Fig. 10 ), mesoscutum except two curved comma-shaped ferruginous spots, anterior margins of scutellum and metanotum, ventral side of mesosoma, posterior face of propodeum medially, coxae and trochanters largely, a large spot on the base of T2 and metasomal segments 3-7 except apical ferruginous bands (Figs 16-17 ); clypeus (Figs 13-14 ) wider than long; lateral carina of propodeum obviously tooth-shaped (Figs 12 , 15 ), horizontal carina between dorsal and posterior surfaces of propodeum thin and slightly indistinct; T1 basally with lateral short raised carina (Fig. 17 ).

Distribution.

China (Gansu); Russia; Mongolia; Kazakhstan.

Figures

Figures 8 - 17. Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) kozhevnikovi (Kostylev, 1927) 8 habitus in dorsal view, ♀ 9 habitus in dorsal view, ♂ 10 antenna, ♂ 11 vertex, ♀ 12 propodeum in dorsal view, ♀ 13 head in frontal view, ♀ 14 head in frontal view, ♂ 15 mesosoma, ♀ 16 metasoma in ventral view, ♀ 17 metasoma in dorsal view, ♀.