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 superba (Morawitz, 1867) Figs 3D, I , 7A-I , 8A-D Odynerus superbus Morawitz, 1867: 121-122, ♀ ♂; type locality: "Gouvernement von Saratow" [Russia]. Odynerus hyalinipennis Andre , 1884: 745-746, ♀; type locality: "Sarepta" [Russia: Volgograd Province]; synonymized by Bluethgen , 1942: 65. Pseudepipona superba : Bluethgen , 1942: 65. Pseudepipona tricolor Gusenleitner, 1976: 115-116, ♀ ♂; type locality: "Daghestan, Cmapomepera" [Russia: Dagestan; "Cmapomepera" is a misread word "Staroterechnoye" actually written in Cyrillic as "Staroterechnoe" ], syn. nov. Lectotype (designated here). Russia. Volgograd Province: "Sarepta" , 1 ♀ [ZISP] (Fig. 7A-D ). Figure 7. Pseudepipona superba (Morawitz, 1867) A-D ♀, lectotype (Russia: Volgograd Province) E-G, I ♂ (Russia: Crimea) H ♀ (Russia: Volgograd Province) A, F habitus in dorsal view B, G habitus in lateral view C labels D, E head in frontal view H metasoma in ventral view ( lf = longitudinal furrow) I apex of antenna. Scale bars: 0.5 mm. Distribution. Russia,?Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan ( Dvorak and Castro 2007 ; Gusenleitner 2013 ; Fateryga et al. 2017 ). Remarks. Examination of the photos of the holotype (Fig. 8A-D ) and the paratype of P. tricolor from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden revealed no significant differences between this species and P. superba besides the coloration. Although the lectotype of P. superba has a reddish clypeus (Fig. 7D ), the clypeus of all other specimens examined (including the ones from the type locality) is either entirely black or with basal reddish spots laterally as corresponds to P. tricolor . Pseudepipona superba is closely related to P. herzi and these two species are distributed allopatrically. The differences between them are mainly in the coloration. Figure 8. Pseudepipona superba (Morawitz, 1867), ♀, holotype of P. tricolor Gusenleitner, 1976 (Russia: Dagestan) A habitus in dorsal view B habitus in lateral view C head in frontal view D labels. Scale bars 0.5 mm. Photos by Frederique Bakker.