Antepipona vatondrangyensis ( Giordani Soika, 1941 ), 2025

Antepipona vatondrangyensis ( Giordani Soika, 1941) , comb. nov.

( Figs 14C View FIGURE 14 , 62O View FIGURE 62 )

Odynerus vatondrangyensis Giordani Soika, 1941: 179 View in CoL , ♀ —“M. Vatondrangy” ( type lost).

Simplepipona andreanicolor Gusenleitner, 2004: 1075 View in CoL , 1079, ♀, ♂ —“Centr., südl. Ambatolampy, 1200m, Ambohimena Tongruben” ( holotype female JOEG). Syn. nov.

Distribution. Madagascar: Antananarivo, Fianarantsoa ( Giordani Soika 1941; Gusenleitner 2004) ( Fig. 62O View FIGURE 62 ).

Notes. Odynerus vatondrangyensis was originally described by Giordani Soika (1941) in his key to Malagasy “ Odynerus ” and then remained as an incertae sedis species until recently, when Dal Pos et al. (2022) listed it as Ovodynerus vatondrangyensis but still marking it as incertae sedis. Examination of a pair housed in MSNVE (labelled by Giordani Soika with the unpublished combination Postepipona vatondrangyensis ) revealed that this taxon belongs to Antepipona . Moreover, comparison of the two specimens with the original description and a female paratype showed Simplepipona andreanicolor to be a synonym of Antepipona vatondrangyensis .

Genus Anterhynchium de Saussure, 1863 View in CoL

Anterhynchium de Saussure, 1863: 205 View in CoL , name for division I of genus Rhynchium Spinola in de Saussure 1852: 103 View in CoL . Type species: Rygchium synagroides de Saussure, 1852 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of van der Vecht (1963: 73).

Key to the Malagasy species of Anterhynchium View in CoL

1. Propodeal angles produced into one to four thick spines. Wings hyaline-ferruginous. Male: F11 short, weakly curved and barely reaching apex of F8; mid femur normal.............................................. A. grandidieri (de Saussure) View in CoL

- Propodeal angles rounded, without spines. Male: F11 different; mid femur basally depressed on ventral face............. 2

2. T1 short and basally subtruncate. Punctures fine, interspaces on mesosoma not reduced to reticulation; punctures on T2 dense and uniform. Wings hyaline with orange tinge. Male: clypeus shagreened and impunctate, yellow; F8 deeply emarginate at apex to accommodate apex of F11, F9 strongly depressed on ventral face, F11 flattened dorsoventrally and reaching middle of F8.............................................................................. A. andreanum (de Saussure) View in CoL

- T1 semi-helliptical, basally rounded. Punctures large and coarse, interspaces on mesosoma reduced to reticulation; punctures on T2 becoming deeper and denser on sides. Wings infuscate in basal half, hyaline in apical half. Male: clypeus punctured and orange-brown with median yellow line; F8 not emarginate at apex and F9 evenly convex, F11 not flattened and reaching base of F9........................................................................ A. madecassum (de Saussure) View in CoL