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 Pseudepipona pseudominuta Gusenleitner, 1971 Pseudepipona pseudominuta Gusenleitner in Bytinski-Salz and Gusenleitner 1971 : 295, ♀; type locality: "Israel, Jericho". Distribution. Turkey, Israel ( Gusenleitner 2013 ). Remarks. Pseudepipona pseudominuta was also described without indication of the subgenus and thus was then placed in the nominotypical one by default. However, this species is "very similar to P. niveopicta " ( Bytinski-Salz and Gusenleitner 1971 ) and the latter taxon has been already transferred to the subgenus Pseudepipona Deuterepipona by Fateryga et al. (2017) . A female and a male of P. pseudominuta from Turkey (FSCV) were examined to confirm that it fits the diagnosis of the subgenus Pseudepipona Deuterepipona . Particularly, the male mandible is without a notch between the basal and preapical teeth.