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
391
journal article
3747
10.11646/zootaxa.5060.3.4
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Genus
Malayepipona
Giordani Soika, 1993
Malayepipona
Giordani Soika, 1993: 151
, genus.
Type
species
Malayepipona pagdeni
Giordani Soika, 1993
, by original designation and monotypy.
Diagnosis
. This genus was considered to be similar to the genus
Stenodyneriellus
by
Giordani Soika (1993)
. Compared with other Oriental genera, it is like
Allorhynchium
and
Okinawepipona
in habitus and in having the dorsal surface of T1 truncate and clearly separated from the anterior vertical surface, the latter slight convex. It can be easily distinguished from
Allorhynchium
by the following character: tegula (
Figs 7
,
17
, 28, 37,
47
, 57, 65, 74) more than twice as long as wide, its posterior lobe narrow, well developed and shaped like a long triangle, and posteriorly exceeding the apex of parategula. And it can be separated from
Okinawepipona
by the following characters: maxillary palp six segmented and labial palp four segmented.
Distribution.
Oriental Region.