Pseudepipona ( Pseudepipona ) cretensis Blüthgen, 1942

Pseudepipona ( Pseudepipona) cretensis Blüthgen, 1942 View in CoL

( Figs 3A–F View FIGURE 3 , 10D–F View FIGURE 10 )

Pseudepipona cretensis Blüthgen, 1942: 310 View in CoL , ♀ ♂ (type locality: “Kloster Ankarathos (Ep. Pedhias, Ost-Kreta)” [ Greece]); holotype, ♀, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany .

Diagnosis. Body with yellow pattern, legs predominantly yellow ( Fig. 3A, D View FIGURE 3 ); apical margin of female clypeus approximately as wide as distance between antennal sockets, hardly emarginate ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ); male F11 slender, apically rounded, without a tyloid ( Fig. 3F View FIGURE 3 ); antero-lateral angles of pronotum in dorsal view almost rounded ( Fig. 3A, D View FIGURE 3 ); scutellum and metanotum with yellow bands ( Fig. 3A, D View FIGURE 3 ); punctation on T2 fine and sparse, interspaces exceeding diameter of a puncture ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ); paramere very broad ( Fig. 10D View FIGURE 10 ); ventral lobe of aedeagus moderately triangular ( Fig. 10F View FIGURE 10 ). The only examined male shows a remarkably broadened and curved apex of the aedeagus and the apical part of the aedeagus proportionally much shorter when compared to the other species ( Fig. 10E View FIGURE 10 ), but it is unclear whether this is a diagnostic character or just an aberration.

Material examined. PARATYPES: GREECE: Ost-Kreta [eastern Crete], Kloster Ankarathos , Ep. Petihias, 27.V.1925, 1 ♂, leg. A. Schulz [ MSNVE]; Ost-Kreta , Kolemodhis, Ep. Petihias, 28.V.1925, 1 ♀, leg. A. Schulz [ MSNVE] .

Additional literature records. GREECE: Ost-Kreta, Kloster Odhigitria, Ep. Pirgiotissa ( Blüthgen 1942).

Distribution. Greece (endemic to Crete) (Fig. 11).