Proepipona Explained
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)
- 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
- 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.
