Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) cypria Bluthgen. A 1942, stat. nov.

Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) cypria Blüthgen, 1942, stat. nov. (Figs 4A–G, 10G–I) Pseudepipona lativentris cypria Blüthgen, 1942: 309, ♀ ♂ (type locality: “ Limassol ” [Cyprus]); holotype, ♀, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. Diagnosis. Body with yellow pattern, legs predominantly yellow (Fig. 4A, F); apical margin of female clypeus approximately as wide as distance between antennal sockets, hardly emarginate (Fig. 4B); male F11 moderately robust, apically rounded, with a subapical tyloid on ventral side (Fig. 4G); antero-lateral angles of pronotum in dorsal view rather blunt (Fig. 4C); scutellum and metanotum with yellow bands (Fig. 4A, F); punctation on T2 moderately coarse and dense, interspaces not exceeding diameter of a puncture (Fig. 4D); paramere very slender (Fig. 10G); ventral lobe of aedeagus rather acutely triangular (Fig. 10I). Material examined. CYPRUS: Limassol, III.1933, 1 ♂ [MSNVE]; ibid., 18.IV.1959, 1 ♀, 1 ♂, leg. G. Mavromoustakis [MSNVE]; ibid., 18.IV.1959, 1 ♂, leg. G. Mavromoustakis [FSCV]; ibid., 29.IV.1954, 1 ♀, leg. G. Mavromoustakis [FSCV]; Mesayitonia, 18.IV.1935, 1 ♀, leg. G. Mavromoustakis [MSNVE]; ibid., 30.IV.1949, 1 ♀, leg. G. Mavromoustakis [MSNVE]; N Limassol, 9.V.1959, 2 ♂, leg. G. Mavromoustakis [MSNVE]; Near Pyrgos, 15.V.1962, 1 ♂, leg. G. Mavromoustakis [MSNVE]. The following specimen cannot be unequivocally identified as either P. cypria or P. lativentris: TURKEY: Asia Minor, steppic hills W of Konya, 9.VII.1962, 1 ♀, leg. A. Giordani Soika [MSNVE]. Additional literature records. ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: Jericho (Blüthgen 1942). The following literature records cannot be unequivocally identified as either P. cypria or P.lativentris: 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. Distribution.? Turkey, Cyprus,? Lebanon, Israel and Palestine (Fig. 11). Remarks. Pseudepipona cypria is considered here a separate species, not a subspecies of P. lativentris, due to a distinct morphology of male F11 (presence of a tyloid) and genitalia (a very slender paramere and rather acutely triangular ventral lobe of the aedeagus).