Three newly recorded genera from China (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Opiinae) with the notes on the genus Neopius and descriptions of three new species
Author
Sheng, Ying-Yi
Author
Wu, Qiong
Author
Achterberg, Cornelis Van
Author
Chen, Xue-Xin
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-05-15
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10.11646/zootaxa.4604.3.13
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Genus
Neopius
Gahan, 1917
Neopius
Gahan, 1917
: 203
.
Type
species (by original designation):
Neopius carinaticeps
Gahan, 1917
(=
Opius rudis
Wesmael, 1835
).
Diagnosis.
Occipital carina complete dorsally and crenulate in dorsal and lateral view; frons distinctly granulate; mandible normal, gradually widened basally; hypoclypeal depression variable; anterior margin of pronotum sculptured, notauli elongated at least until half of mesoscutum; medio-posterior depression of mesoscutum present; precoxal sulcus sculptured; propodeum densely sculptured; vein 3-SR of fore wing distinctly longer than vein 2-SR, vein m-cu of fore wing postfurcal, second submarginal cell narrowing outwards, CU1b short and apically absent, first subdiscal cell open; first tergite as long as apical width, second tergite as long as third tergite and sparsely granulate-punctate, ovipositor sheath short.
Biology.
Parasitoids of
Agromyzidae
, including species
Agromyza megalopsis
Hering 1933
and
Agromyza nigripes
Meigen, 1830
.
Comments.
Neopius
Gahan
was considered a synonym of the genus
Euopius
Fischer, 1967
(
Fischer, 1967
)
. Later,
Fischer (1972)
included
Neopius
Gahan
as a synonym of the former subgenus
Xynobius
Foerster,
1863
in
Opius
Wesmael, 1835
. In 2005, this genus was proposed as a subgenus of the genus
Xynobius
(
Papp, 2005
)
.
Quicke
et al.
(1997)
included
Neopius
as a subgenus in
Phaedrotoma
Foerster, 1863
because its venom apparatus is very similar to those of other
Phaedrotoma
species examined, and it has no apomorphies in common with
Xynobius
or
Opius
s.s.
However,
Neopius
differs from other subgenera of
Phaedrotoma
in having a medio-dorsally complete occipital carina and granulate frons, and the molecular data presented in
Li
et al.
(2013)
indicated that
Neopius
is not closely related to
Phaedrotoma
, so it is treated here as an independent genus of
Opiinae
with its own apomorphies (occipital carina secondarily complete dorsally and frons distinctly granulate).