Review of Palpostilpnus Aubert (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Phygadeuontinae), with the description of ten new species
Author
Reshchikov, Alexey
Author
Santos, Bernardo F.
Author
Liu, Jing-Xian
Author
Barthélémy, Christophe
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2019
2019-12-03
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63
journal article
24721
10.5852/ejt.2019.582
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Palpostilpnus rotundatus
Sheng & Sun, 2013
Palpostilpnus rotundatus
Sheng & Sun in
Sheng, Sun, Ding & Luo, 2013: 237
.
Diagnosis
Body obliquely elongate. Postero-ocellar distance 1.25 times ocular-ocellar distance. Occipital carina complete. Epomia present. Epicnemial carina distinct. Propodeal carinae absent except for forming combined area and pleural carina. T1 1.8 times as long as apically broad. Wings hyaline.
Material examined
CHINA
•
♀
;
Jiangxi Province
,
Quannan County
;
700 m
a.s.l.
;
10 Jun. 2008
; SIT leg.; photographs examined;
GSFPM
.
Description
COLOUR. Head black. Labrum, mandible (except for black apical tooth) and palpi pale yellow. Antenna with scape and pedicle pale yellow, flagellum basally and ventrally reddish brown, dorsally from middle length to apex fuscous. Mesosoma reddish brown. Propleuron laterally fuscous; anterior margin of pronotum, anterior upper corner of mesopleuron, and anterior margin of mesoscutum and scutellum (except for black apex) yellowish brown; mesoscutum with black marks on posterior half of median lobe and lateral lobe. Metanotum, epicnemium and anterior margin of submetapleural ridge black. Propodeum basally centrally with a black mark. T1 black, T2–T6 fuscous, basally and laterally yellowish brown, and apical margins yellow. Legs yellowish brown to reddish brown, hind tibia with base and apex fuscous, hind fifth tarsomere darkened.
Remarks
This species is similar to
P
.
angkor
sp. nov.
but differs from the latter by having the mesoscutum densely reticulate-punctate (vs with large shallow punctures in
P
.
angkor
sp. nov.
) and the posteroocellar distance 1.25 times the ocular-ocellar distance (vs 3.4 times in
P
.
angkor
sp. nov.
).
Distribution
China
(
Jiangxi
).