rufipes (Fabricius)

Vespa rufipes Fabricius 1775: 367 —“in Insulis Oceani pacifici” (holotype female London); 1781: 463; 1787: 289.— Gmelin 1790: 2759.— Christ 1791: 240.—Olivier 1792 [1791]: 685.— Fabricius 1793: 264, 1804, Syst. Piez.: 259.

Odynerus rufipes; Guérin-Méneville 1838: 265 (as n. sp.; Tahiti).— Bequaert 1926a: 192 (syn. of O. rufipes (F.)).— Perkins & Cheesman 1928: 6, 30 (in subgenus Rhynchium).— Bequaert, 1928a: 55 (type is female).— Cheesman 1928: 182 (in subgenus Rhynchium; ethology; Marquesas.; Society Islands; distribution includes Australia).— Williams 1947: 317 (list), 324 (in subgenus Rygchium; Fiji; Ellice Islands; Rẙkẙs).

Rhygchium rufipes; de Saussure 1852: male (Ile d’Otahiti; la Nouvelle-Guinee).— Smith 1857: 48 ( Rhynchium; cat.).—de Saussure 1867: 8 ( Rhynchium; Otahiti).— Maindron 1882: 281 ( Rynchium; cat.).— Dalla Torre 1894: 48 ( Rhynchium; cat.); 1904: 35 ( Rhynchium; cat.).— Kohl 1908: 311 ( Rygchium; Samoa).— Turner 1919b: 338 ( Rhynchium; Fiji).— Krauss 1961: 417 (Cook Islands).

Pseudepipona rufipes; Giordani Soika, 1958 [1957]: 211, pl. III (in subgenus Epiodynerus; Tonga; Tokelau; Cook Islands; Tuamotu Archipelago).

Anterhynchium rufipes; van der Vecht 1963: 88 (in subgenus Epiodynerus).— Yamane & Kusigemati 1985: 75 (Fiji).— Kuhlmann 2006: 27 (in subgenus Epiodynerus; Rarotonga; Mangaia).— Evenhuis 2007: 29 (list).— Gusenleitner 2011a: 1292 (in subgenus Epiodynerus; Tonga; Samoa).— Ramage 2017: app. 1.— Dal Pos et al. 2022: 31 (in subgenus Epiodynerus; specs.).— Carpenter 2023: 9 (distr.).

Epiodynerus rufipes; Carpenter 1981 [1982]: 36 (phylogenetic relationships).

Distr.: Fiji; Tuvalu; Tonga; Samoa; Tokelau; Cook Islands; French Polynesia.