Taxonomic Notes and New Distribution and Host Plant Records for Sawflies and Woodwasps (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) of Japan VI
Author
Fu, Yuanzun
Author
Yuan, Yuan
Author
Shen, Qian
Author
Xu, Hao
Author
Ye, Zheng
Author
Guo, Li
Author
Wu, Xiaoliang
Author
Zhao, Yunhe
text
Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology
2021
2021-11-22
47
4
163
188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4cp01914h
journal article
10.50826/bnmnszool.47.4_163
2434-091X
12760197
Corymbas nipponica
Takeuchi, 1936
Japanese name: Huto-koshijiro-habachi
(
Fig. 2N–P
)
Material examined
.
HONSHU:
Tochigi Pref.
: 1 ˂,
Nakagawa
,
Wami
,
33°46′N
140°10′E
, coll. larva (
Fig. 2N
),
on
Sanguisorba officinalis
,
12. VI. 2016
, mat. 29.
VI
. (
Fig. 2P
), em.
26. IV. 2017
,
S. Ibuki
.
Larva
. Middle instar (
Fig. 2N
): head creamy white; trunk pale, covered with snow-white woolly wax. Late instar (
Fig. 2O
): head dark yellow; trunk pale greenish, covered with snow-white woolly wax; thoracic legs dark yellow. Mature larva (
Fig. 2P
): head dark yellow; trunk pale green, without wax covering.
Host plants.
Rosaceae
:
Rubus
spp.
(
Okutani, 1967b
),
Geum japonicum
Thunb.
(
Okutani, 1967b
),
Sanguisorba officinalis
L. (new record).
Life history
. This is a univoltine species with the adult emergence in April to May and the larval feeding stages in May to June in lowlands of central Honshu. The larva is a solitary external feeder of the host leaves (
Fig. 2N–O
). On maturity, the reared larva had an extra molt (
Fig. 2P
) and went into the soil.
Remarks
. This is the first record of
Sanguisorba officinalis
as the host plant of
C. nipponica
. For a detailed description of the larva, see
Okutani (1959)
.