Revision of the Taiwanese species of the genus Leptophion Cameron, 1901 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ophioninae), with a discussion of their phenology and distribution
Author
Shimizu, So
Author
Watanabe, Kyohei
Author
Maeto, Kaoru
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Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4144.1.3
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Genus
Leptophion
Cameron, 1901
Leptophion
Cameron, 1901
: 227
. Type species:
Leptophion longiventris
Cameron
, by monotypy.
Spilophion
Cameron, 1905
: 124
. Type species:
Spilophion maculipennis
Cameron
, by monotypy. Synonymized by
Townes
et al
. (1961
: 265
).
Coiloneura
Szépligeti, 1905
: 35. Type species:
Coiloneura melanostigma
Szépligeti
, by subsequent designation. Synonymized by
Cushman (1947: 462)
.
Diagnosis.
This genus can be distinguished from other genera of
Ophioninae
by the following combination of character states: (1) mandible not twisted, barely tapered, with symmetric teeth or upper tooth slightly longer than lower one, usually with a swelling and oblique groove on its basal surface (
Figs 1
,
8, 10
,
16, 18
,
25, 27
); (2) in lateral view, clypeus strongly convex, its lower part abruptly strongly curved backward (
Figs 10
,
18
,
27
) and in frontal profile its lower margin nearly straight (
Figs 1
,
8
,
16
,
25
); (3) occipital carina complete except for lower end absent and not joined to hypostomal carina and base of mandible (
Figs 9, 10
,
17, 18
,
26, 27
); (4) ocelli large and posterior ones adjacent with eyes (
Figs 1
,
8–10
,
16–18
,
25–27
); (5) posterior transverse carina on mesosternum complete, rarely interrupted in a few Australasian species (i.e.,
L
.
anici
Gauld, 1977
, and
L
.
antennatus
(Morley, 1912))
; (6) notauli faintly present as vestiges or completely absent (
Figs 11
,
19
,
28
); (7) epicnemial carina on mesopleuron present and its upper end reaching above level of lower margin of pronotum (
Figs 11
,
19
,
28
); (8) anterior transverse carina on propodeum developed but in a few species its outer end absent (
Figs 11, 12
,
19, 20
,
28, 29
); (9) posterior transverse carina on propodeum virtually absent but often with vestiges laterally (
Figs 11, 12
,
19, 20
,
28, 29
); (10) fore wing with a glabrous area on anterior corner of discosubmarginal cell, and virtually all species without sclerites there, except for a Filipino species,
L
.
pterospilus
Gauld & Mitchell, 1981
, which has a distinct sclerite; (11)
1m-cu
on fore wing sinuous or curved, usually without ramellus (
Figs 2
,
32–34
); (12) hind wing usually with an apparently elongated penultimate hamulus on
R1
(
Fig. 13
), while occasionally with uniform hamuli (
Figs 21
,
30
); (13) tibial spur of fore leg without a membranous flange; (14) mid and hind trochanters simple; and (15) distal pecten of hind tarsal claw developed and significantly longer than true apex of claw (
Figs 14
,
22
,
31
).
Distribution
. Australasian, Oceanic, Oriental, and Palaearctic regions (
Gauld 1977
;
Gauld & Mitchell 1981
;
Shimizu & Watanabe 2015a
).
Bionomics.
Host is unknown. Adult wasps are often collected in LT in rainforests.
Remarks.
Most
Leptophion
species are known from the Australasian region while only a few species are distributed in the Oceanic and Oriental regions and the southeastern part of the Palaearctic region.
In Taiwan, three species (i.e.,
L
.
maculipennis
of the
maculipennis
species-complex, and
L
.
radiatus
and
L
.
giganteus
Shimizu & Watanabe
,
sp. nov.
, both of which belong to the
radiatus
species-complex) are found (
Gauld & Mitchell 1981
;
Shimizu & Watanabe 2015a
,
b
) and they can easily be distinguished from each other by the following key.