Taxonomy of Sierola Cameron (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from China with three new species
Author
Wang, Chung-Hong
State Key Lab of Rice Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Author
He, Jun-Hua
State Key Lab of Rice Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Author
Chen, Xue-Xin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9109-8853
0000 - 0002 - 9109 - 8853 State Key Lab of Rice Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
xxchen@zju.edu.cn
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Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2021
2021-08-24
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.84.68189
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Sierola Cameron, 1881
Sierola
Cameron 1881
: 556. Type species:
Sierola testaceipes
Cameron, 1881.
Lelejola
Gorbatovsky, 1998: 680. Type species:
Sierola ashmeadi
Gorbatovsky, 1995. Synonymized by Terayama, 2006: 235.
Diagnosis.
Antenna with 11 flagellomeres; notauli absent; pre-and pterostigma large; forewing with five closed cells.
Biology.
The
Sierola
species are parasitoids of lepidopterous larvae, e.g.,
Batrachedridae
,
Cosmopterigidae
,
Gelechiidae
,
Gracillariidae
,
Pyraustidae
,
Tineidae
,
Tortricidae
(
Azevedo et al. 2018
) and
Elachistidae
(current data).
Distribution.
253 species as well as subspecies, including the new species described in this paper, are known to world, mainly distributed in circum-Pacific belt (Table
1
).
Table 1.
Distribution of genus
Sierola
. (The two extinct species from Baltic and Rovno ambers are excluded)
Distribution |
Number of species |
Hawaiian Islands |
214+1 |
Marquesas Islands |
11+2 |
New Zealand |
5 |
Australia |
4 |
India |
3 |
Japan |
2 |
China |
4 |
Far East Russia |
1 |
Fiji |
1 |
Thailand |
1 |
America |
1 |
Australia & New Zealand |
1 |