Six new Chinese species of the Pachyprotasis melanosoma group (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) with a key to the species
Author
Zhong, Yihai
Author
Li, Zejian
Author
Wei, Meicai
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Zootaxa
2015
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3914.1.1
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Pachyprotasis chenghanhuai
Wei & Zhong, 2006
(
Figs. 2, 3
,
38
,
54
,
72
, 89, 103, 125)
Pachyprotasis chenghanhuai
Wei & Zhong
in
Zhong & Wei, 2006
: 622–623, Figs. 621, 622. ♀,
type
locality: Mt. Emei (
29°06′N
,
103°03′E
;
1800 m
), Sichuan,
China
.
Pachyprotasis chenghanhuai
:
Taeger
et al.
2010
: 568
.
Distribution.
China
(Sichuan) (
Fig. 125
).
Material examined.
Holotype
, Sichuan: ♀, Mt. Emei (
29°06′N
,
103°03′E
,
1800 m
), 0 7.07.1957, Leyi Zhen, Hanhua Cheng leg.;
Paratype
, 1 ♀, Mt. Emei (
29°06′N
,
103°03′E
,
1800 m
), 0 7.07.1957, Leyi Zhen, Hanhua Cheng leg.
Discussion.
This species is similar to
P. nitididorsata
and may be distinguished as follows (
P. nitididorsata
in parentheses): space between punctures on mesepisternum with distinct sculpture, slightly shiny (space between punctures on mesepisternum without sculpture, distinctly shiny); middle serrulae each with 11–12 distal denticles (middle serrulae each with 17–20 distal denticles). It is also similar to
P. albicoxis
(see discussion of
P. albicoxis
). Except for the serrulae, no reliable morphological differences between these three species were found.