Episyron arrogans ( Smith, 1873 )

Episyron arrogans ( Smith, 1873) View in CoL

Figs 6 A – F View Figure 6 , 7 A – H View Figure 7

Pompilus arrogans Smith, 1873: 187, ♀. Type locality: “ Hiogo ” [ Japan, Honshu]. View in CoL

Pompilus funereipes Costa, 1874: 30, tab. 7 (bis), fig. 5, ♀. Lectotype, ♀, “ P. funereipes, Napoli ” [ Italy], designated by Wolf 1981 c: 32. Junior subjective synonym of Pompilus arrogans Smith, 1873 according to Wahis 1986: 28. View in CoL

Pompilus sapporensis Matsumura, 1912: 182, ♀. Syntypes, ♀, “ Sapporo ( Hokkaido) ” [ EIHU]. Junior subjective synonym of Pompilus arrogans Smith, 1873 according to Yasumatsu 1937: 74. View in CoL

Episyron tripunctatus View in CoL : Gussakovskij 1932: 42 (misidentification).

Episyron arrogans View in CoL : Kim 1970: 558, ♀ (S Korea: Hwacheon); Lelej et al. 1994: 143, ♀ ♂, (S Korea: Gyeonggi-do, Gangwon-do; N Korea: Komunsan).

Episyron arrogans View in CoL : Lelej, Yamane, 1992: 107, ♀ ♂.

Material examined.

CHINA • 1 ♀; Hebei, Xinglong County, Wulingshan National Nature Reserve ; 40°31'N, 117°20'E; 29. VIII. 1973; coll. Jikun Yang, sweep net ( YNAU) GoogleMaps ; CHINA • 6 ♀♀ 2 ♂♂; Hebei, Xiaowutaishan ; 39°56'N, 114°58'E; 17–22. VI. 2009; coll. Zhenhua Zu; sweep net ( YNAU) GoogleMaps ; CHINA • 6 ♂♂; Shanxi, Qinshui County; 35°26'N, 113°47'E; 22. V. 2012; coll. Li Jian; sweep net ( YNAU) GoogleMaps ; CHINA • 1 ♂; Yunnan, Zhaotong City , Ludian County; 26°12'N, 103°17'E; 18. VII. 2016; coll. Yuxiang Chen; sweep net ( YNAU) GoogleMaps ; CHINA • 1 ♂; Heilongjiang, Yichun City, Fenglin National Nature Reserve ; 48°06'N, 128°61'E; 23. VII. 2008; coll. Yiping Wang; sweep net ( YNAU) .

Diagnosis.

Female. Body length 10.1–13.7 mm; fore wing 8.0– 11.6 mm. Body largely black, following markings whitish yellow: narrow stripes along inner orbit and posterior margin of eyes, posterior margin of pronotum (medially interrupted), a spot on tegulae, paired basolateral roundish spots on T 1, paired basal transverse spots on T 2, T 3 and T 5 (sometimes connected), dorsobasal spot on hind tibia (Fig. 6 A – D View Figure 6 ). Spur brown; squamiform pubescence usually brown (Fig. 6 D View Figure 6 ). Male. Body length 7.6–10.5 mm; fore wing 6.8–8.0 mm. In addition to spots seen in female, basal transverse line (or shortly interrupted medially) on T 2, T 3 and T 7 whitish yellow; ventral face of fore tibia and basal half of hind tibia reddish yellow (Fig. 7 A View Figure 7 ); spur white, and ventral faces of antennal flagellomeres brownish ( Smith 1873; Bingham 1897; Kim 2022; Anju et al. 2024).

Distribution.

Palearctic region: European part (Centre, North Caucasus), Eastern Siberia (Irkutsk Prov.), Far East (Amur Prov., Khabarovsk Terr., Primorskii Terr., Kurils), Europe (Western, Southern, Eastern), Turkey, China ( Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Yunnan), South Korea, Japan ( Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima, Izu, Ryukyu); Oriental region: China, Philippines ( Bingham 1897; Wahis 2007; Amiresmaeili et al. 2011; Ghahari et al. 2014; Loktionov and Lelej 2014, 2017; Kim 2022; Anju et al. 2024).