New data on Gasteruptiidae (Hymeno ¬ ptera) from the Russian Far East
Author
van Achterberg, C.
Author
Sundukov, Yu. N.
Author
Lelej, A. S.
Author
Belokobylskij, S. A.
text
Far Eastern Entomologist
2019
2019-04-02
381
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http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.381.1
journal article
10.25221/fee.381.1
2713-2196
Gasteruption bicoloratum
Tan et van Achterberg, 2016
?
Gasteruption incilis
Alekseev, 1995: 42, key,
♀
,
holotype
, Primorskii Krai, Anisimovka,
12.VI 1975
, leg. A. Berezantsev.
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.
Russia
:
Primorskii
krai
:
Anisimovka
,
4.VIII 1983
,
1♂
,
1♀
, AL.
Amurskaya oblast
:
Khingansky Nature Reserve
,
Kundur
,
Karapcha
River,
20.VII 1988
,
1♀
, AL.
DISTRIBUTION.
Russia
(new record): Primorskii krai, Amurskaya oblast. –
China
.
NOTES
. The
holotype
of
G. incilis
Alekseev, 1995 could not be found in the
Moscow
Museum despite many efforts (including of the author); it is the only known specimen and originates from Anisimovka (South Primorskii krai). The original description is very rudimentary (in a key only!), the two key characters (apical antennal segment with ventral sensory area depressed and antenna apically paler than basally)
are both variable in several species and thus useless for recognition of the species.
The first character (the deep and parallel-sided impression of the apical antennal segment with sharp borders in the female) is a highly variable character that may occur e.g. in the very similar
G.
abeillei
,
G.
assectator
,
G. nigritarse
and
G.
bicoloratum
. The specialized ventral sensory part of the apical antennal segment is variably depressed because of variable speed of desiccation. A pair of specimens from the
type
locality of
G. incilis
but collected later (
4.VIII 1983
instead of
12.VI 1975
)
belongs to
G.
bicoloratum
, but very likely
G.
abeillei
,
G. nigritarse
and
G.
assectator
also occur at the
type
locality. Arbitrarily,
G. incilis
is provisionally included under
G.
bicoloratum
till the
holotype
is found; the typical characters of the latter species
(yellow mandibles and yellowish pattern of metasoma) are not mentioned in the original description, which may be used as an argument to list
G. incilis
under
G.
abeillei
,
G. nigritarse
or
G.
assectator
.