Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) vicina Gusenleitner. A 1973
Pseudepipona (Pseudepipona) vicina Gusenleitner, 1973 (Figs 9A–G, 10X–Z) Pseudepipona vicina Gusenleitner, 1973: 328, ♀ (type locality: “Ost-Afghanistan, Prov. Nengrahar: Tor-Khama”); holotype, ♀, Moravské Zemské Muzeum, Brno, Czech Republic. Diagnosis. Body usually with yellow pattern, legs usually predominantly yellow (Fig. 9A, F); apical margin of female clypeus slightly wider than distance between antennal sockets, hardly emarginate (Fig. 9B); male F11 moderately robust, apically rounded, without a tyloid (Fig. 9G); antero-lateral angles of pronotum in dorsal view usually rather rectangular (Fig. 9C); scutellum and metanotum with yellow bands (Fig. 9A, F); punctation on T2 moderately coarse and dense, interspaces not exceeding diameter of a puncture (Fig. 9D); paramere moderately broad (Fig. 10X); ventral lobe of aedeagus rather acutely triangular (Fig. 10Z). Material examined. UZBEKISTAN: Tashkent, Ak-Tash, 20.V.1922, 1 ♂, leg. N. Kuznetsov [ZISP]. KYRGYZSTAN: Chatkalskiy Range, Kasansay Place, 4.VIII.1973, 1 ♀, 1 ♂, leg. Yu. Tarbinskiy [FSCV]; Irkeshtam, 3000 m, 5.VII.1935, 1 ♂, leg. N. Olsufyev [ZISP]; Northern bank of Issyk-Kul Lake, vicinity of Bosteri, 23.VII.1983, 1 ♀, leg. N. Kurzenko [FSCV]; Talas Alatau, Karabus Place, 26.VII.1973, 1 ♀, 1 ♂, leg. Yu. Tarbinskiy [FSCV]. KAZAKHSTAN. Almaty and Jetisu provinces: Boguty Mount, 4.X.1970, 1 ♂, leg. P. Lehr [FSCV]; Dzhungar Alatau near Alakol Lake, 23.VIII.1972, 1 ♀, leg. N. Kurzenko [FSCV]. Additional literature records. AFGHANISTAN: Nangrahar Province, Tor-Khama (Gusenleitner 1973). INDIA: Himachal Pradesh, Lahaul Spiti District, Losar, 13400 ′; Jammu and Kashmir, Kargil District, Dras, 3900 m; Jammu and Kashmir, Leh District, Nyoma (Girish Kumar et al. 2017). Distribution. Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, India (Fig. 11). Remarks. The identity of this species is understood by us following Girish Kumar et al. (2017); the holotype was not available for study.
Institutions
- Università degli Studi della Tuscia (IT)
- Azienda Sanitaria Locale Viterbo (IT)
- A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (UA)
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- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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- 2024-10-25
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- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14022366
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- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
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- article
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