Proepipona

Proepipona
Proepipona sp., South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Vespidae
Subfamily:	Eumeninae
Genus:	Proepipona Giordani Soika, 1977
Type species
Proepipona lateralis (Fabricius, 1781)
Species
Proepipona ampla Proepipona bothriogaster Proepipona falcata Proepipona lateralis Proepipona marginipunctata Proepipona meadewaldoi Proepipona rhodesiensis

Proepipona is an Afrotropical genus of potter wasps.

Species, subspecies and distribution

Seven species have been described.

• Proepipona ampla ampla Giordani Soika, 1989
  • Distribution: Cameroon, Liberia.
• Proepipona ampla ealensis Giordani Soika, 1989
  • Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Proepipona bothriogaster (Schletterer, 1891)
  • Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Proepipona falcata (Tullgren, 1904)
  • Distribution: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania.

• Proepipona lateralis lateralis (Fabricius, 1781)
  • Distribution: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde (Santiago), Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania.
• Proepipona lateralis lateropicta (Bequaert, 1918)
  • Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Namibia.
• Proepipona lateralis marginiscutis (Cameron, 1910)
  • Distribution: Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia.
• Proepipona lateralis paolii (Giordani Soika, 1934)
  • Distribution: Somalia.

• Proepipona marginipunctata (Meade-Waldo, 1915)
  • Distribution: Malawi, Zambia.

• Proepipona meadewaldoi meadewaldoi (Bequaert, 1918)
  • Distribution: Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
• Proepipona meadewaldoi postscutellaris Giordani Soika, 1989
  • Distribution: Angola.
• Proepipona meadewaldoi sedata (Giordani Soika, 1940)
  • Distribution: Kenya, Somalia, South Africa.

• Proepipona rhodesiensis rhodesiensis (Giordani Soika, 1941)
  • Distribution: Zambia, Zimbabwe.
• Proepipona rhodesiensis aurea Giordani Soika, 1983
  • Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo.
• Proepipona rhodesiensis flavofasciata Giordani Soika, 1983
  • Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo.
• Proepipona rhodesiensis ruficollis Giordani Soika, 1989
  • Distribution: South Africa.

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