Two newly recorded genera Malayepipona Giordani Soika and Megaodynerus Gusenleitner, with eight new species from China (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae)
Author
Bai, Yue
Author
Chen, Bin
Author
Li, Ting-Jing
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-11-01
5060
3
371
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journal article
3747
10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.4
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1175-5326
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Key to species of genus
Malayepipona
(modified from the key of
Nguyen 2020
)
1. S2 strongly convex in basal half...................................................
M. assamensis
Giordani Soika
- S2 nearly flat or slightly convex at base, then slightly and gradually convex toward apical margin..................... 2
2. T2 without apical lamella............................................................................... 3
- T2 with apical lamella................................................................................. 7
3. Upper part of propodeum usually with a pair of relatively blunt teeth just behind metanotum (
Figs. 48
, 71).............. 4
- Upper part of propodeum normal, without a pair of teeth just behind metanotum................................... 5
4. Wings dark brown, strongly infuscate, making apical dark spot of forewing marginal cell inconspicous (
Fig. 68
); female clypeus with separated spots (
Fig. 69
); area between cephalic foveae on vertex punctate (
Fig. 70
)..............................................................................................
M. clypeata
Nguyen & Carpenter, 2012
- Wings brown, slightly infuscate, apical dark spot of forewing marginal cell conspicuous (
Figs 40–41
); female clypeus wholly ferruginous and male clypeus yellow (
Figs 42–43
); area between cephalic foveae on female vertex smooth, shiny................................................................................
M. nigricans
Bai, Chen & Li
,
sp. nov.
5. Area surrounding foveae distinctly depressed, smooth and shiny, making foveae obvious (
Fig. 3
); head and mesosoma largely brown mixed with ferruginous and yellow (
Fig. 1
)...............................
M. brunnea
Bai, Chen & Li
,
sp. nov.
- Area surrounding foveae not depressed, smooth and shiny, making foveae inconspicuous (fig.
9 in
Nguyen, 2020
)); head and mesosoma obviously different from above................................................................. 6
6. Punctures on head and mesosoma smaller and weaker, interspaces between punctures not carinate; pronotal carina not produced at humeral angle, round; metasomal terga shiny, T
1 in
dorsal view less than 1.5 times as wide as long, T2 with weaker sparser punctures..................................................................
M
.
pagdeni
Giordani Soika, 1993
- Punctures on head and mesosoma large and coarse, interspaces between punctures reticulate; pronotal carina strongly produced at humeral angle; metasomal terga dull, T
1 in
dorsal view more than twice as wide as long, T2 with strong dense punctures..................................................................................
M. fincta
Nguyen, 2020
7. S2 nearly flat at base, then slightly convex to apical margin (
Fig. 39
)............................................ 8
- S2 concave or slightly convex at base, then slightly convex to apical margin....................................... 9
8. Clypeus sparsely punctate (
Fig. 33
); T2 with short apical lamella, T3 without apical lamella (
Fig. 38
)..........................................................................................
M. maculosa
Bai, Chen & Li
,
sp. nov.
- Clypeus densely punctate and coarser (
Fig.
2
in
Nguyen & Carpenter 2013
); T2 with longer apical lamella, T3 with short apical lamella (
Fig.
5
in
Nguyen & Carpenter 2013
)......................................
M. malickyi
(
Gusenleitner, 2010
)
9. T2 with short apical lamella, T3–T5 without apical lamella................................................... 10
- T2 with longer apical lamella, T3 with short apical lamella................................................... 13
10. Female head with long dense setae (
Fig.
5
in
Gusenleitner 2012
).........................
M. visenda
Gusenleitner, 2012
- Female head with shorter setae (
Figs 61–62
,
12–15
, 33–34)................................................... 11
11. Wings dark brown, strongly infuscate (
Figs 10–11
); T2 with inconspicuous apical lamella, just visible in lateral view (
Fig. 19
)...................................................................
M. flaviclypeata
Bai, Chen & Li
,
sp. nov.
- Wings brown, not infuscate (
Figs 22–23
,
51
,
60
); T2 with obvious apical lamella (
Figs. 30
,
58
,
66
)................... 12
12. Clypeus densely coarsely punctate; apical tooth of mandible pointed (fig.
1 in
Nguyen 2020
); pronotal carina strongly produced at humeral angle; female head and mesosoma wholly black (
Figs
1–4
in
Nguyen 2020
); forewing with dark spot at apex of marginal cell......................................................................
M. bidoup
Nguyen, 2020
- Clypeus sparsely punctate; apical tooth of mandible rounded (
Fig. 61
); pronotal carina not produced at humeral angle, round (
Fig. 64
); female head and mesosoma with yellow marks (Figs, 60–61, 64); forewing without dark spot at apex of marginal cell...................................................................
M. triangula
Bai, Chen & Li
,
sp. nov.
13. Border between anterior and dorsal surfaces of T1 slightly raised, with faint edge (
Fig. 30
).......................... 14
- Border between anterior and dorsal surfaces of T1 bluntly angulate, with obvious edge (
Fig. 58
)...................... 15
14. Female clypeus black, laterally with two thick longitudinal yellow strips, T4 without apical lamella..........................................................................................
M. seomyty
Nguyen & Carpenter, 2013
- Female clypeus entirely brownish yellow or with one basal transverse yellow band and two connected yellow spots at apex (
Figs 24–25
), T4 with short apical lamella.....................................
M. lamellata
Bai, Chen & Li
,
sp. nov.
15. Clypeus densely coarsely punctate; posterior surface of propodeum with scattered shallow punctures; female clypeus entirely black; T1–T2 with apical yellow bands, T3–T5 without bands......................
M. furva
Nguyen & Carpenter, 2013
- Clypeus with sparser punctures medially; posterior surface of propodeum with dense thin striae, mixed with minute punctures (
Fig. 54
); female clypeus black with two yellow lateral spots at base (
Fig. 52
); T1–T5 with apical yellow bands (widest on T2 and narrowest on T5) (
Fig. 58
)...........................................
M. sparsipuncta
Bai, Chen & Li
,
sp. nov.