Contribution to the taxonomy of the Pseudepipona subgenus Deuterepipona Bluethgen, 1951 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from Central Asia, with the description of four new species Author Fateryga, Alexander V. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5346-3477 T. I. Vyazemsky Karadag Scientific Station - Nature Reserve of RAS - Branch of A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, Nauki Str. 24, Kurortnoye, 298188 Feodosiya, Russia fater_84@list.ru Author Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7870-8226 Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 100 - let Vladivostoku Ave. 159, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia text Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2022 2022-10-31 93 101 123 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.93.90092 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.93.90092 1314-2607-93-101 A6F31101F05D44D0997E2F4F8BC7EA63 52E294A6DFF852E5BBDAE70A073C9E26 Subgenus Pseudepipona Deuterepipona Bluethgen , 1951 Deuterepipona Bluethgen , 1951: 194. Type species: Odynerus ionius de Saussure, 1855, by original designation. Diagnosis. Male mandible without a notch between the basal and preapical teeth; pronotal carina usually forming obtuse or rounded angle laterally. Species included. Pseudepipona ankarensis Giordani Soika, 1970 (Turkey), P. herzi (Morawitz, 1895) (Israel, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China), P. inexspectata ( Bluethgen , 1955) (Italy), P. ionia (de Saussure, 1855) (Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Syria), P. kostylevi Fateryga, sp. nov. (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan), P. nikolayi Fateryga, sp. nov. (Kazakhstan), P. niveopicta Giordani Soika, 1970 (Russia, Turkey), P. popovi Fateryga, sp. nov. (Turkmenistan), P. priesneri Gusenleitner, 1970 (Saudi Arabia, Iran), P. pseudominuta Gusenleitner, 1971 (Turkey, Israel), P. superba (Morawitz, 1867) (Russia,?Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan), and P. vladimiri Fateryga, sp. nov. (Kazakhstan). Remarks. Pseudepipona priesneri and P. pseudominuta are transferred to the subgenus Pseudepipona Deuterepipona from the nominotypical one (see below).