<documentid="A6BF7AA286B4B6A1FF0ACF35156088CC"ID-CLB-Dataset="303590"ID-DOI="10.50826/bnmnszool.49.1_43"ID-GBIF-Dataset="bd6d7fd9-a789-429f-8275-6af242db3294"ID-ISSN="2434-091X"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13826542"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="karina"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="karina"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="karina"IM.metadata_approvedBy="karina"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="karina"IM.treatments_approvedBy="karina"checkinTime="1718644094014"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Naven Kumar, R K, Sivalingam, Azhagu Madhavan, Alex, Arockia & Brahma, Neha"docDate="2023"docId="03D12B47FA37B91DFF0BFED0FEBA3F09"docLanguage="en"docName="BullNatlMusNatSciSerA.49.1.43-46.pdf"docOrigin="Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 49 (1)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_562_23"docStyle="DocumentStyle:EEA6C589EB70DFF4CCECB2264A05AF4C.2:BullNatlMusNatSciSerA.2021-.journal_article.english.noindex"docStyleId="EEA6C589EB70DFF4CCECB2264A05AF4C"docStyleName="BullNatlMusNatSciSerA.2021-.journal_article.english.noindex"docStyleVersion="2"docTitle="Eriotremex purpureipennis"docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="45"masterDocId="FFE8533FFA36B91EFF94FFCDFFA43D43"masterDocTitle="Rediscovery of a Malaysian Endemic Woodwasp, Eriotremex purpureipennis (Hymenoptera, Siricidae)"masterLastPageNumber="46"masterPageNumber="43"pageNumber="44"updateTime="1727047321883"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0">
<mods:titleid="37DA185CDCF8F4335EA3B94EB1AD2DD7">Rediscovery of a Malaysian Endemic Woodwasp, Eriotremex purpureipennis (Hymenoptera, Siricidae)</mods:title>
<bibRefCitationid="EFE9E7A0FA37B91FFE59FED1FD273C77"author="Westwood, J. O."box="[461,643,284,308]"pageId="1"pageNumber="44"pagination="i - xxiv"refId="ref2102"refString="Westwood, J. O. 1874. Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis; or, illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects, for the most part contained in the collection presented to the University of Oxford by the Rev. F. W. Hope, M. A., D. C. L., F. R. S., & c with forty plates from drawings by the author. i - xxiv, 205 pp., 40 pls. Clarenden Press, Oxford."type="book chapter"year="1874">Westwood, 1874</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="EFE9E7A0FA37B91FFEB2FE54FE693CED"author="Forsius, R."box="[294,461,409,431]"pageId="1"pageNumber="44"pagination="169 - 193"refId="ref1744"refString="Forsius, R. 1933. Notes on a collection of Malaysian Tenthredinoidea (Hym.). Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 8: 169 - 193."type="journal article"year="1933">Forsius 1933: 172</bibRefCitation>
. Not
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<bibRefCitationid="EFE9E7A0FA37B91FFE36FE7BFDFE3C88"author="Benson, R. B."box="[418,602,438,459]"pageId="1"pageNumber="44"pagination="27 - 51"refId="ref1710"refString="Benson, R. B. 1943. Studies in Siricidae, especially of Europe and southern Asia (Hymenoptera; Symphyta). Bulletin of Entomological Research 34: 27 - 51."type="journal article"year="1943">Benson, 1943: 44</bibRefCitation>
;
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1949: 127;
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;
<bibRefCitationid="EFE9E7A0FA37B91FFE21FE1EFDF73CAB"author="Smith, D. R."box="[437,595,467,489]"pageId="1"pageNumber="44"refId="ref1903"refString="Smith, D. R. 1978. Suborder Symphyta (Xyelidae, Parachexyelidae, Parapamphiliidae, Xyelydidae, Karatavitidae, Gigasiricidae, Sepulcidae, Pseudosiricidae, Anaxyelidae, Siricidae, Xiphydriidae, Paroryssidae, Xyelotomidae, Blasticotomidae, Pergidae). In van der Vecht J. and R. D. Shenefelt (eds): Hymenopterorum Catalogus, pars 14. 193 pp. W. Junk, The Hague."type="book"year="1978">Smith, 1978: 91</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitationid="EFE9E7A0FA37B91FFDF5FE1EFD3A3CAA"author="Smith, D. R."box="[609,670,467,489]"pageId="1"pageNumber="44"pagination="423 - 438"refId="ref1977"refString="Smith, D. R. 2010. The woodwasp genus Eriotremex (Hymenoptera: Siricidae), a review and a new species from Malaysia. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 112: 423 - 438."type="journal article"year="2010">Smith,</bibRefCitation>
2010: 434;
<bibRefCitationid="EFE9E7A0FA37B91FFE9AFE3CFE773F45"author="Shinohara, A."box="[270,467,497,519]"pageId="1"pageNumber="44"pagination="169 - 180"refId="ref1846"refString="Shinohara, A. 2022. The woodwasp genus Eriotremex (Hymenoptera, Siricidae) of Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 28: 169 - 180."type="journal article"year="2022">Shinohara, 2022: 171</bibRefCitation>
. See
<bibRefCitationid="EFE9E7A0FA37B91FFF26FDC3FE8F3F67"author="Smith, D. R."box="[178,299,526,548]"pageId="1"pageNumber="44"refId="ref1903"refString="Smith, D. R. 1978. Suborder Symphyta (Xyelidae, Parachexyelidae, Parapamphiliidae, Xyelydidae, Karatavitidae, Gigasiricidae, Sepulcidae, Pseudosiricidae, Anaxyelidae, Siricidae, Xiphydriidae, Paroryssidae, Xyelotomidae, Blasticotomidae, Pergidae). In van der Vecht J. and R. D. Shenefelt (eds): Hymenopterorum Catalogus, pars 14. 193 pp. W. Junk, The Hague."type="book"year="1978">Smith (1978)</bibRefCitation>
) black, iridescent with bluish or purplish luster. Head mostly covered with dense, well-separated punctures with smooth interspaces; most of gena nearly impunctate. Antenna (
) with MPL about 0.65 times as long as OOCL, dorsal surface nearly smooth and glabrous, anterior margin and median part with sparse coarse warts and posterior margin densely microsculptured, mat and pilose. Forewing 1.42 times as long as ovipositor sheath. Abdomen (
) about 0.82 times as long as wide, widest at slightly after middle; large median part fairly strongly convex, with distinct median longitudinal carina, surface punctate and pilose, and broad depressed lateral and anterior margins fairly smooth and impunctate. Ovipositor sheath about 3.42 times as long as apical sheath.
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is a rare siricid with only two old published records,
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and
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(see
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).
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did not give the number of specimens he had and simply noted
<bibRefCitationid="EFE9E7A0FA37B91FFC76FDDDFBC53F64"author="Maa, T. - C."box="[994,1121,527,551]"pageId="1"pageNumber="44"pagination="11 - 189"refId="ref1773"refString="Maa, T. - C. 1949. A synopsis of Asiatic Siricoidea with notes on certain exotic and fossil forms (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Musee Heude, Notes d`Entomologie Chinoise 8: 11 - 189."type="journal article"year="1949">Maa (1949)</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="EFE9E7A0FA37B91FFC1AFD57FB893FF1"author="Benson, R. B."box="[910,1069,666,690]"pageId="1"pageNumber="44"pagination="27 - 51"refId="ref1710"refString="Benson, R. B. 1943. Studies in Siricidae, especially of Europe and southern Asia (Hymenoptera; Symphyta). Bulletin of Entomological Research 34: 27 - 51."type="journal article"year="1943">Benson (1943)</bibRefCitation>
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. I was not able to examine the material treated by
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and
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did not give the number of specimens he examined, the specimen from
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,
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,
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),
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and
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and agrees generally with the description by
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. One disagreement is the number of antennomeres, which is 16 (
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</taxonomicName>
, has 10 or 11 antennomeres (male, n=3). Eight Japanese species of the genus
, female. A, Head and thorax, dorsolateral view; B, antenna; C, wings; D, abdomen, dorsal view; E, apical part of abdomen, dorsal view; F, abdomen ventrolateral view.
but differs from it in the lack of paired yellow or whitish spots at the base of tergum 2 (
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;
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,
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;
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also in the convex and medially longitudinally carinate precornal basin (
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