Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) lativentris
Creators: name: Fateryga, Alexander V.
name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Pseudepipona
Pseudepipona lativentris

description: Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) lativentris (de Saussure, 1855)
(Figs 7A–G, 10Q–S)
Odynerus lativentris de Saussure, 1855: 275, ♀ (type locality: “Le Midi de la France. Montpellier”); syntype (s), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
Diagnosis. Body with yellow pattern, legs predominantly yellow (Fig. 7A, F); apical margin of female clypeus approximately as wide as distance between antennal sockets, hardly emarginate (Fig. 7D); male F11 slender, apically rounded, without a tyloid (Fig. 7G); antero-lateral angles of pronotum in dorsal view rather rectangular (Fig. 7A); scutellum and metanotum with yellow bands (Fig. 7A, F); punctation on T2 moderately coarse and dense, interspaces not exceeding diameter of a puncture (Fig. 7D); paramere moderately broad (Fig. 10Q); ventral lobe of aedeagus rounded (Fig. 10S).
Material examined. SWITZERLAND: Siders, 1 ♂ [ZISP]; Sierra, 9.IX.1887, 1 ♀ [ZISP]; ibid., 23.VII.1889, 1 ♂ [ZISP]. SPAIN: Alicante, 16.III.1961, 1 ♀, leg. Mercet [MSNVE]; Cuenca, 1 ♂, leg. Korb [MSNVE]; Fuentelcésped, 9.VII.1986, 1 ♀, leg. F. Sanza [MSNVE]; Mallorca, 1 ♂ [ZISP]; Picasent, Valencia, 1 ♀, leg. G. Marí [ZMMU]; ibid., 13.X.1940, 1 ♀, leg. G. Marí [MSNVE]; ibid., 12.IV.1942, 1 ♂, leg. G. Marí [MSNVE]; Picasent, Torrente, 1 ♂, leg. G. Marí [ZMMU]; Sierra de Guadarrama, 1 ♀, leg. Dusmet [ZISP]; ibid., 23.VIII.1915, 1 ♀, leg. Dusmet [MSNVE]. ITALY: Lazio, Roma, Caffarella, 12.VIII.1944, 1 ♂ [MSVI]; Sanremo, 1 ♂ [ZISP]; Sardegna, Quartu S. Elena, Niu Crobu, 85 m, 9.V.2021, 1 ♀, leg. D. Sechi [MSVI]; Sicilia, Madonie, Madonna dell’Alto, 30.VI.2021, 1 ♂, leg. M. Romano [MSVI]; Sicilia, Valle di Zottafonda, 1600 m, 20.VI.1998, 1 ♂, leg. M. Romano [MSVI]. MOROCCO: Fès-Meknès, Boulemane, R503 SE of Ait Karmosse, 1750 m, 22.V.2022, 1 ♀, 2 ♂, leg. T. Wood [MSVI]; Moyen Atlas, Timadit, 28.V.1947, 1 ♂, leg. J. de Beaumont [MSNVE]; Oukaimeden, 10.V.2015, 1 ♂, leg. V. Soon [TUZ]; Oukaimeden, 2590 m, 12.V.2015, 1 ♀, leg. V. Soon [MSVI]; Oukaimeden, 2620 m, 13.V.2015, 1 ♀, leg. V. Soon [TUZ]; Oukaimeden, 2670 m, 13.V.2015, 2 ♀, leg. V. Soon [TUZ]. TUNISIA: Sidi Ayed, 2.VI.1979, 1 ♀, leg. Tussac [MSNVE]. AZERBAIJAN: Helendorf, 2 ♀ [ZISP]; Ordubad (Arax), 1892, 1 ♂, leg. E. Reitter [ZISP].
The following specimen cannot be unequivocally identified as either P. lativentris or P. cypria: TURKEY: Asia Minor, steppic hills W of Konya, 9.VII.1962, 1 ♀, leg. A. Giordani Soika [MSNVE].
Additional literature records. FRANCE: Aveyron: St.-Affrique; Bouche-du-Rhône: Rognac; Bouchesdu-Rhône: Vitrolles; Charente Inférieure: Royan; Charente Inférieure: St. Palais; Corse: Bonifacio; Hérault: Montpellier; Landes: St.-Sever; Lot-et-Garonne: Ville-neuve-sur-Lot; Maine-et-Loire: St.-Rémy-la-Varenne; Var: Callian (Berland 1928). PORTUGAL: Algarve: Amoreira; Alto do Estoril; Coimbra: Montemor-o-Velho; Cova do Vapor; Estoril; Estremadura: Cabo Espichel; Estremadura: Nazaré; Mitra; Resende; S. João do Estoril (Baldock et al. 2020a). SPAIN: Granada: Güéjar-Sierra; Jaén: Quesada (Castro 1986); Huesca: Alcubierre; Huesca: Candasnos; Huesca: Castejón; Teruel: Alcañiz; Zaragoza: Fuendetodos; Zaragoza: Jaulín; Zaragoza: Monegrillo; Zaragoza: Montes de Castejón; Zaragoza: Retuerta de Pina; Zaragoza: Zaragoza (Castro 1992); Mallorca: Can Pastilla; Mallorca: Palma de Mallorca; Menorca: Cala Mesquida; Menorca: Cap Fornells; Menorca: Son Xoriguer (Baldock et al. 2020b). ITALY: Sicilia, Geraci Siculo, Pietra Giordano; Sicilia, Madonie, Piano Catarineci (Borsato & Turrisi 2004); Sardegna, Nuoro Province, Aritzo, Contrada Case (Borsato 2006); Sardegna, Cagliari Province, Carloforte (Castro & Dvořák 2009). CROATIA: Insel Unie (Quarnero) (Blüthgen 1951). MOROCCO: Ifrane; Midelt; Timadit (Giordani Soika 1953). TURKEY: Kulp (= Tuzluca) (Blüthgen 1951).
The following literature records cannot be unequivocally identified as either P. lativentris or P.cypria: TURKEY: Elma Dagi, Ankara, 1000 m (Giordani Soika 1970); Erzurum, Palandöken, 2300 m (Yildirim & Gusenleitner 2004). LEBANON: Cedars (Giordani Soika 1970). These authors reported only female specimens, which can be easily confused. The records of P. lativentris by Giordani Soika (1970) from Tajikistan, by Ebrahimi & Carpenter (2008) from Iran, by Castro & Dvořák (2009) from Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, and by Oehlke (2012) from Kyrgyzstan cannot be unequivocally attributed to a certain species of the P. lativentris -group. The record of P. lativentris from China by Bai et al. (2021) actually refers to P. tingjingliae Fateryga from the P. herrichii -group (Fateryga 2022).
Distribution. France, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Morocco, Tunisia, Azerbaijan, Turkey,? Lebanon (Fig. 11).
Ethology. Ferton (1901) recorded this species, erroneously named “ Odynerus fastidiosissimus ” (see Berland 1927 for clarification), nesting in the ground. The nest was without an entrance turret and the egg was suspended in a cell. Blüthgen (1961) reported that the provision was green caterpillars. Castro (1992) reported a specimen collected at Reseda sp. (Resedaceae).
description: Published as part of Fateryga, Alexander V. & Selis, Marco, 2024, Unexpected diversity in the Pseudepipona lativentris species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), pp. 318-340 in Zootaxa 5529 (2) on pages 330-332, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5529.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/14022454