Proepipona is an Afrotropical genus of potter wasps.
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.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).