Contribution to the genus Chrysidea Bischoff, 1913 from China, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)
Author
Rosa, Paolo
Author
Xu, Zai-Fu
text
Zootaxa
2015
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465
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4040.4.6
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Chrysidea pumila
(
Klug, 1845
)
Chrysis pumila
Klug, 1845
: tab. 45, fig. 13.
Neotype
, ♂, designation by
Rosa & Xu (2015: 10)
;
Egypt
: Fayoum (Luzern).
Chrysidea pumila
Bischoff 1913
: 34
;
Hammer 1936
: 3
(
China
[Xinjiang]: Urumchi [= Urumqi]);
Kimsey & Bohart 1991
: 314
.
Material examined
. 2♀♀, Harare: Ketmen, Thian Chan [=Tian-Shan] Occid. Monts Sussamyr Ketmen Tjube M. Pic. 1914. The specimens were collected close to the
Kyrgyzstan
border (Sussamyr Mt.) (
NMLS
) (
Rosa
et al
. 2014
).
Diagnosis.
Chrysidea pumila
can be easily separated from
C. falsa
sp. nov.
by fore wing with indistinct outer veins of discoidal cell (fully sclerotised in
C. falsa
) and apex of T3 with two lateral teeth and apico-medial undulation (with three sharp teeth and convex intervals between teeth in
C. falsa
).
Biology.
Unknown.
Distribution
.
China
(Xinjiang). Widely distributed in the Afrotropical and South Palaearctic Region (
Kimsey & Bohart 1991
). It is not yet known from the Oriental Region.
Acknowledgments.
We are grateful to Dr. Marco Bernasconi (NMLS,
Switzerland
) for his cooperation and assistance in the study of the Linsenmaier collection. We wish to thank Jun Fung (Guangzhou,
China
), who provided the pictures of
C. falsa
sp. nov.
We are also very grateful to Arkady Lelej (
Russia
) and two anonymous reviewers for their kind suggestions to improve the manuscript. The study was partially supported by the National Basic Research Program of
China
(No. 2013CB127600) and the National Natural Science Foundation of
China
(30770265).