Parastephanellus Enderlein (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae) revisited, with description of two new species from China
Author
Tan, Jiang-Li
Author
Achterberg, Cornelis Van
Author
Tan, Qing-Qing
Author
Zhou, Tong
Author
Li, Tao
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-08-15
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2
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journal article
29019
10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.7
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Parastephanellus
Enderlein, 1906
Figs 1–99
Parastephanus
Enderlein, 1905
: 474
(not Haeckel, 1881). Type species (by original designation):
Stephanus pygmaeus
Enderlein, 1901
.
Parastephanellus
Enderlein, 1906
: 301
(renamed because of homonymy);
Aguiar 2004
: 64
–72 (catalogue; references); van
Achterberg & Quicke 2006
: 219
–221;
Aguiar & Jennings 2007
: 15
-24 (suggest origin of the genus);
Hong
et al
. 2011
: 36
– 43 (revision China);
Kim & Lee 2012
: 174
–177;
Chen
et al
. 2016a
: 119
–122. Type species (by original designation):
Stephanus pygmaeus
Enderlein, 1901
.
Diagnosis.
Temple with ivory or pale yellowish streak along eye (
Figs 9
,
17
,
26
,
29
,
42
,
57
); occipital carina ventrally parallel to hypostomal carina (
Fig. 46
); neck short and comparatively robust, without pronotal fold or distinct transverse carinae medially (
Figs 4, 5
,
13
,
36
,
47
); vein 2-CU1 of fore wing completely developed; veins 2- SR and 2-SR+M of fore wing present, but sometimes unsclerotized and only pigmented; vein 1-SR of fore wing straight and more or less angled with vein 1-M (
Figs 3
,
35
,
62
); hind coxa partly flattened dorso-laterally (
Fig. 65
); outer side of hind tibia with distinct oblique striae or carinae ventrally, rarely without striae or ventral carina (
Figs 14
,
23
,
50
,
61
,
77
); ovipositor sheath entirely black or dark brown, 1.8–2.9 × as long as fore wing and 0.9–1.8 × as long as body (
Figs 43
,
70
); males with cylindrical pygidial process (
Figs 58
,
86
), but absent in females (replaced by a more or less excavated and partly depressed pygidial area:
Figs 54
,
66
,
95
).
Distribution.
Australasian, Oriental and Palaearctic. The distribution of Chinese species is illustrated in
Fig. 100
.