Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) gineri (von Schulthess, 1934)

Fateryga, Alexander V. & Selis, Marco, 2024, Unexpected diversity in the Pseudepipona lativentris species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), Zootaxa 5529 (2), pp. 318-340 : 329-330

Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) gineri (von Schulthess, 1934)

( Figs 6A–F , 10N–P )

Odynerus gineri von Schulthess, 1934a: 149 , figs 1–4, ♀ ♂ (type locality: “Ibiza (îles Baléares)” [ Spain]), 1934b: 99; syntypes, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology , Zurich, Switzerland and MSNVE.

Diagnosis. Body with yellow pattern, legs predominantly yellow ( Fig. 6A, D ); apical margin of female clypeus approximately as wide as distance between antennal sockets, hardly emarginate ( Fig. 6B ); male F11 slender, apically rounded, without a tyloid ( Fig. 6F ); antero-lateral angles of pronotum in dorsal view rather rectangular ( Fig. 6A, D ); scutellum and metanotum without yellow bands ( Fig. 6A, D ); punctation on T2 fine and sparse, interspaces exceeding diameter of a puncture ( Fig. 6C ); paramere moderately broad ( Fig. 10N ); ventral lobe of aedeagus moderately triangular ( Fig. 10M ).

Material examined. SYNTYPE: ♂, labeled “ Ibiza [red font] / LEG. GINER / 24-IV-32 [on underside, red font] // ♂ // L. gineri / det. Schulthess 93 // Cotype [red font in red frame] // MUSEO CIVICO DI STORIA / NATURALE DI VENEZIA / Materiale tipico descritto / Inv. n. 04580 [red label]” [ MSNVE] . ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: SPAIN: Ibiza , 22.V.1932, 1 ♀, leg. J. Giner [ MSNVE] .

Additional literature records. SPAIN: Ibiza: Cala Jondal; Ibiza: Can Furnet; Ibiza: Font des Tur; Ibiza: Platja d’es Codolar; Ibiza: S. Francesc de ses Salines; Ibiza: Sant Antoni; Formentera: Cala Saona; Formentera: Far de la Mola ( Baldock et al. 2020b).

Distribution. Spain (endemic to Ibiza and Formentera) (Fig. 11).

Remarks. The differences of this species from P. lativentris are mainly in the coloration only. Additional study is required to clarify its taxonomic independence.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Pseudepipona gineri (von Schulthess). A–C, ♀, Ibiza; D–F, ♂, syntype. A, D, habitus in dorsal view; B, E, head in front view; C, T2 in dorsal view; F, apex of flagellum.

FIGURE 10. Male genitalia of Pseudepipona spp. A–C, Pseudepipona beckeri (Morawitz), Crimea; D–F, P.cretensis Blüthgen, Crete; G–I, P. cypria Blüthgen, Cyprus; J, L, M, P. falsa (Kostylev), Uzbekistan; K, P. falsa, lectotype; N–P, P. gineri (von Schulthess), Ibiza; Q–S, P. lativentris (de Saussure), Spain; T, P. rubricans Kurzenko, Kazakhstan; U–W, P. rubricans, China; X–Z, P. vicina Gusenleitner, Kyrgyzstan. A, D, G, J, N, Q, T, U, X, left paramere and volsella in medial view (d, digitus); B, E, H, K, L, O, R, V, Y, aedeagus in dorsal view (me, median expansion); C, F, I, M, P, S, W, Z, aedeagus in lateral view (vl, ventral lobe). Scale bar 0.5 mm (not exactly applied to D–F and N–P).