Tiny wasps, huge diversity - A review of German Pteromalidae with new generic and species records (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) Author Haas, Michael https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6869-6698 Entomology, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany & Systematic Entomology (190 n), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany michael.haas@smns-bw.de Author Baur, Hannes https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1360-3487 Department of Invertebrates, Natural History Museum Bern, Bern, Switzerland & Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Author Schweizer, Tanja Entomology, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany Author Monje, Juan Carlos Entomology, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany Author Moser, Marina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7876-0278 Entomology, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany & Systematic Entomology (190 n), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Author Bigalk, Sonia Entomology, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany Author Krogmann, Lars https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3724-1735 Entomology, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany & Systematic Entomology (190 n), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-12-07 9 77092 77092 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e77092 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e77092 1314-2828-9-e77092 3AAED22812685C79AB1E1634D898C100 Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878) Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID : SMNS_37573 ; recordedBy: H.-J. Fluegel ; sex: female ; lifeStage: adult ; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538094 ; Taxon : scientificName: Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany ; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Hessen ; locality: Lkr. Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Neumorschen , Halberg , 5202g ; verbatimElevation: 196 m ; decimalLatitude: 9.6022 ; decimalLongitude: 51.0628 ; Identification: identifiedBy: H. Baur ; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: eventDate: 16/10/2012 ; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_000510; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material . Occurrence : catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID : SMNS_39910 ; recordedBy: T. Kothe , G. Schweizer ; sex: male ; lifeStage: adult ; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank : OL538141 ; Taxon : scientificName: Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany ; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Wuerttemberg ; locality: Lkr. Esslingen, Oberboihingen ; verbatimElevation: 307 m ; decimalLatitude: 9.3689 ; decimalLongitude: 48.6506 ; Identification : identifiedBy: M. Haas ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 4/ 4 - 4/5/2014 ; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_002845; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material . Occurrence : catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID : SMNS_39918 ; recordedBy: T. Kothe , G. Schweizer ; sex: female ; lifeStage: adult ; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank : OL538076 ; Taxon : scientificName: Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany ; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Wuerttemberg ; locality: Lkr. Esslingen, Oberboihingen ; verbatimElevation: 307 m ; decimalLatitude: 9.3689 ; decimalLongitude: 48.6506 ; Identification : identifiedBy: M. Haas ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 4/ 4 - 4/5/2014 ; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_002853; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID : SMNS_40869 ; recordedBy: J. Aronov ; sex: female ; lifeStage: adult ; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538074 ; Taxon : scientificName: Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany ; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Wuerttemberg ; locality: Stuttgart , Wilhelma , Hutewald , alt ; verbatimElevation: 258 m ; decimalLatitude: 9.1995 ; decimalLongitude: 48.8066 ; Identification: identifiedBy: M. Haas ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 16/ 6 - 1/7/2014 ; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_003804; institutionCode: SMNS Ecological interactions Parasite of The species was reported as a parasitoid of wood-boring Coleoptera ( Buprestidae : Melanophila cyanea (Fabricius, 1775)) in dying twigs. Distribution Eastern to central Europe incl. United Kingdom; Germany: Baden-Wuerttemberg , Hessen Notes Newly-recorded genus and species in Germany. The barcodes cluster in two subclusters, but no morphological distinction is possible. Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878) might be cryptic. Images: Fig. 23 .