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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.74.39570" ID-GBIF-Dataset="7206243f-28fc-4121-a72f-779b85c1ed5e" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2607-74-93" ID-Pensoft-UUID="D5955E1B14915E3BBF9407D93A0926D0" ID-Zenodo-Dep="3599924" ID-ZooBank="8B591C56E2DC4F55BA452B2111F1A13C" ModsDocID="1314-2607-74-93" checkinTime="1577771826428" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Liu, Jing-Xian, Yan, Jia-He &amp; Broad, Gavin R." docDate="2019" docId="588A204298D850E3BCADE4DFC95D32AB" docLanguage="en" docName="JourHymenoptRes 74: 93-104" docOrigin="Journal of Hymenoptera Research 74" docPubDate="2019-12-30" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.74.39570" docTitle="Bicurta hejunhuai Liu, Yan &amp; Broad 2019, sp. nov." docType="treatment" docUuid="FCDA6C05-C21E-4FE1-AD15-B5B0B79C55B7" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="5" id="D5955E1B14915E3BBF9407D93A0926D0" lastPageNumber="93" masterDocId="D5955E1B14915E3BBF9407D93A0926D0" masterDocTitle="A new species of Bicurta Sheng et al. from China (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Collyriinae), a parasitoid of Stenocephus fraxini Wei (Hymenoptera, Cephidae)" masterLastPageNumber="104" masterPageNumber="93" pageNumber="93" updateTime="1678753518944" updateUser="pensoft">
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<mods:title>A new species of Bicurta Sheng et al. from China (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Collyriinae), a parasitoid of Stenocephus fraxini Wei (Hymenoptera, Cephidae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Liu, Jing-Xian</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Yan, Jia-He</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Shanghe Forest Pest Management and Quarantine Station of Shandong Province, Shanghe, 251600, China</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Broad, Gavin R.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 75 BD, UK</mods:affiliation>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/FCDA6C05-C21E-4FE1-AD15-B5B0B79C55B7" authority="Liu, Yan &amp; Broad" authorityName="Liu, Yan &amp; Broad" authorityYear="2019" class="Insecta" family="Ichneumonidae" genus="Bicurta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Bicurta hejunhuai" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hejunhuai" status="sp. nov.">Bicurta hejunhuai Liu, Yan &amp; Broad</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype), habitus, lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367439" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Figs 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 27" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2 - 7. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 2 face, frontal view 3 head, dorsal view 4 head and frontal half of mesosoma, lateral view 5 head and mesoscutum, dorsal view 6 metapleuron, propodeum and base of first tergite, lateral view 7 mesopleuron and mesosternum, lateroventral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367440" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">, 2-7</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 812" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 8 - 12. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 8 head and antenna, lateral view 9 scutellum and propodeum, dorsal view 10 mid claw, lateral view 11 fore wing 12 apex of metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures8-12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367441" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">, 8-12</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1317" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figures 13 - 17. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 13 mesosoma, lateral view 14 scutellum, propodeum, first tergite and base of second tergite, dorsal view 15 second tergite, dorsolateral view 16 third to eighth tergites and ovipositor sheath, dorsal view 17 hind leg lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures13-17" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367442" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">, 13-17</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 18" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 18. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (male, paratype) habitus, lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure18" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367443" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">, 18</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1924" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 19 - 24. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. 19 male face, front view 20 face of female paratype 21 head and mesosoma of male paratype, lateral view 22 head and mesosoma of male paratype, dorsal view 23 head and mesosoma of female type, lateral veiw 24 mid claw of female paratype." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367444" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">, 19-24</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 25" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 25. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov., female paratype on a leaf of Fraxinus pennsylvanica in Shenyang City, Liaoning province (cell phone photo by Jia-He Yan)." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367445" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">, 25</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 26" captionStartId="F8" captionText="Figure 26. One habitat of Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov.: greening trees Fraxinus pennsylvanica in the street of Downtown Shenyang City, Liaoning province, China (cell phone photo by Jia-He Yan)." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure26" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367446" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">, 26</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Material examined.</paragraph>
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<typeStatus>Holotype</typeStatus>
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female,
<collectingCountry name="China">China</collectingCountry>
:
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Liaoning">Liaoning Province</collectingRegion>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:588A204298D850E3BCADE4DFC95D32AB:74F01E8D31BBD3CE4756C02936F9ED36" country="China" name="Shenyang City" stateProvince="Liaoning Province">Shenyang City</location>
,
<collectingDate value="2019-03-22" valueMax="2019-03-30" valueMin="2019-03-22">22-30 March 2019</collectingDate>
, leg. Jia-He Yan, reared from larva of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Stenocephus fraxini</emphasis>
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Wei (SCAU)
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.
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<typeStatus>Paratypes</typeStatus>
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<specimenCount type="female">2♀♀</specimenCount>
and
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, same data as holotype (SCAU)
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;
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<specimenCount type="female">1 female</specimenCount>
,
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Nei Mongol">Inner Mongolia</collectingRegion>
<collectingCounty>Autonomous region</collectingCounty>
of
<collectingCountry name="China">China</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Huhehot</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:588A204298D850E3BCADE4DFC95D32AB:A6ACBB57E821726129C8378E6E214150" country="China" county="Autonomous region" municipality="Huhehot" name="Wulanfu Park" stateProvince="Inner Mongolia">Wulanfu Park</location>
,
<collectingDate value="2019-03-24">24 March 2019</collectingDate>
, leg. Jia-He
<collectorName>Yan</collectorName>
(SCAU)
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;
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<specimenCount type="female">2♀♀</specimenCount>
,
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Heilongjiang">Heilongjiang Province</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCounty>Harbin</collectingCounty>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Botany Garden of Harbin</collectingMunicipality>
, reared from
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Oleaceae" genus="Fraxinus" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Fraxinus mandshurica" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="mandshurica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Fraxinus mandshurica</emphasis>
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:588A204298D850E3BCADE4DFC95D32AB:966027EF99892BD5CB50220A1ECB535B" country="China" county="Harbin" municipality="Botany Garden of Harbin" name="Rupr." stateProvince="Heilongjiang Province">Rupr.</location>
(
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,
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Oleaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Oleaceae</taxonomicName>
),
<collectingDate value="2019-05-07">7 May 2019</collectingDate>
, leg. Jia-He
<collectorName>Yan</collectorName>
(SCAU)
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2019-04-25" collectorName="Marsh., Yan" country="China" location="Roxb." municipality="Shenyang" specimenCount="13" specimenCount-female="4" specimenCount-male="9" stateProvince="Liaoning Province" typeStatus="paratype">
<specimenCount type="female">4♀♀</specimenCount>
and
<specimenCount type="male">9♂♂</specimenCount>
,
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Liaoning">Liaoning Province</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Shenyang</collectingMunicipality>
, collected from
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Oleaceae" genus="Fraxinus" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Fraxinus chinensis" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="chinensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Fraxinus chinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:588A204298D850E3BCADE4DFC95D32AB:89E7316A508BEB1C8D9AA9F4671B1225" country="China" municipality="Shenyang" name="Roxb." stateProvince="Liaoning Province">Roxb.</location>
and
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Oleaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="F. pennsylvanica" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pennsylvanica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">F. pennsylvanica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<collectorName>Marsh.</collectorName>
,
<collectingDate value="2019-04-25">25 April 2019</collectingDate>
, leg. Jia-He
<collectorName>Yan</collectorName>
(SCAU)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">
Holotype, female (
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). Body length 10.0 mm, fore wing length 6.2 mm, antenna length 3.8 mm, ovipositor length 1.6 mm.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Figure 1.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Bicurta hejunhuai</emphasis>
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sp. nov. (female holotype), habitus, lateral view.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Head</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Face flat (
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), 1.2
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as wide as high, centrally with sparse punctures, distance between punctures of central area 1.0 to 5.0
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diameter of punctures, punctures close below antennal sockets and near inner orbits; face next to inner orbit with fine granular texture. Clypeus (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype), habitus, lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367439" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure1">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
) 2.2
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as wide as high, finely and sparsely punctate, apical margin with an obtuse median tubercle, impunctate. Mandible weakly narrowed to apex, middle width of mandible 0.57
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as wide as basal width of mandible, with lower tooth slightly longer than upper tooth. Labrum not exposed. Malar space short (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 27" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2 - 7. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 2 face, frontal view 3 head, dorsal view 4 head and frontal half of mesosoma, lateral view 5 head and mesoscutum, dorsal view 6 metapleuron, propodeum and base of first tergite, lateral view 7 mesopleuron and mesosternum, lateroventral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367440" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
), finely wrinkled and with fine leathery texture in between, 0.33
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as long as basal mandibular width. Gena (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 27" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2 - 7. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 2 face, frontal view 3 head, dorsal view 4 head and frontal half of mesosoma, lateral view 5 head and mesoscutum, dorsal view 6 metapleuron, propodeum and base of first tergite, lateral view 7 mesopleuron and mesosternum, lateroventral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367440" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
) evenly convergent posteriorly, finely punctulate and pubescent, 0.63
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as long as eye in dorsal view. Vertex (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 27" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2 - 7. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 2 face, frontal view 3 head, dorsal view 4 head and frontal half of mesosoma, lateral view 5 head and mesoscutum, dorsal view 6 metapleuron, propodeum and base of first tergite, lateral view 7 mesopleuron and mesosternum, lateroventral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367440" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
) with posterior portion finely punctulate, between lateral ocellus and eye with fine leathery texture. POL = 1.0, OD = 1.25, OOL = 1.0. Interocellar area flat with a short longitudinal groove. Frons finely punctate above antennal sockets, centrally with a weak longitudinal carina extending between antennal sockets to median ocellus, frons slightly rugose along carina sides. Antenna (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 812" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 8 - 12. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 8 head and antenna, lateral view 9 scutellum and propodeum, dorsal view 10 mid claw, lateral view 11 fore wing 12 apex of metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures8-12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367441" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures8-12">Fig. 8</figureCitation>
) with 19 flagellomeres, ratio of length of basal five flagellomeres as follows: 1.42: 1.25: 1.17: 1.08: 1.0, first flagellomere 2.83
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as long as its apical width, apical flagellomere 2.4
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as long as its basal width, slightly shorter than fourth flagellomere (12: 14). Occipital carina sharp and strong. Distance from hypostomal carina to mandible 1.25
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longer than basal mandibular width.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Figure 2-7.</emphasis>
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sp. nov. (female holotype)
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face, frontal view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">3</emphasis>
head, dorsal view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">4</emphasis>
head and frontal half of mesosoma, lateral view
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head and mesoscutum, dorsal view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">6</emphasis>
metapleuron, propodeum and base of first tergite, lateral view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">7</emphasis>
mesopleuron and mesosternum, lateroventral view.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Mesosoma</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Propleuron finely and densely punctate, pubescent. Pronotum (
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) strongly sculptured, central depressed portion with anteriorly arched longitudinal wrinkles, dorsal half irregularly strongly rugose, with epomia indistinctly differentiated from these rugae. Mesoscutum (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 27" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2 - 7. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 2 face, frontal view 3 head, dorsal view 4 head and frontal half of mesosoma, lateral view 5 head and mesoscutum, dorsal view 6 metapleuron, propodeum and base of first tergite, lateral view 7 mesopleuron and mesosternum, lateroventral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367440" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
) with median lobe slightly convex in lateral view, median lobe with irregularly distributed fine punctures which are sparser centrally; punctures on lateral lobe sparser than those on median lobe; notaulus deep notaulus deep and crenulate, mesoscutum centrally with a short longitudinal groove behind median lobe and between meeting point of notauli; posterior median portion of mesoscutum polished, with sparse punctures. Scutellum (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 27" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2 - 7. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 2 face, frontal view 3 head, dorsal view 4 head and frontal half of mesosoma, lateral view 5 head and mesoscutum, dorsal view 6 metapleuron, propodeum and base of first tergite, lateral view 7 mesopleuron and mesosternum, lateroventral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367440" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
) evenly and slightly convex, sparsely punctate, distance between punctures 1.0 to 2.0
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diameter of puncture. Metanotum rugose punctate. Epicnemial carina (
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) distinct ventrally and obscure dorsally, not prominent in front of median longitudinal suture. Mesopleuron (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 27" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2 - 7. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 2 face, frontal view 3 head, dorsal view 4 head and frontal half of mesosoma, lateral view 5 head and mesoscutum, dorsal view 6 metapleuron, propodeum and base of first tergite, lateral view 7 mesopleuron and mesosternum, lateroventral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367440" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7">Figs 7</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1317" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figures 13 - 17. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 13 mesosoma, lateral view 14 scutellum, propodeum, first tergite and base of second tergite, dorsal view 15 second tergite, dorsolateral view 16 third to eighth tergites and ovipositor sheath, dorsal view 17 hind leg lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures13-17" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367442" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures13-17">13</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1924" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 19 - 24. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. 19 male face, front view 20 face of female paratype 21 head and mesosoma of male paratype, lateral view 22 head and mesosoma of male paratype, dorsal view 23 head and mesosoma of female type, lateral veiw 24 mid claw of female paratype." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367444" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24">23</figureCitation>
) largely densely punctate reticulate and pubescent; dorsal anterior portion in front of subtegular ridge with short irregular longitudinal wrinkles; below subtegular ridge and in front of speculum slightly rugulose; ventroposterior portion below episternal scrobe with short wrinkles, more or lese shiny. Speculum (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1317" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figures 13 - 17. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 13 mesosoma, lateral view 14 scutellum, propodeum, first tergite and base of second tergite, dorsal view 15 second tergite, dorsolateral view 16 third to eighth tergites and ovipositor sheath, dorsal view 17 hind leg lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures13-17" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367442" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures13-17">Fig. 13</figureCitation>
) relatively large, as long as (or 0.6
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as wide as) length of tegula, polished and glabrous. Mesopleural furrow distinctly foveolate. Mesosternum (
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) along medial sternal groove more or less polished, with a few sparse punctures laterally and centrally. Median longitudinal suture of mesosternum distinct, inner side with short transverse carinae. Metapleuron (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 27" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2 - 7. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 2 face, frontal view 3 head, dorsal view 4 head and frontal half of mesosoma, lateral view 5 head and mesoscutum, dorsal view 6 metapleuron, propodeum and base of first tergite, lateral view 7 mesopleuron and mesosternum, lateroventral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367440" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
) scabrous, evenly convex, dorsal portion strongly rugose, central portion punctate reticulate, ventral portion irregularly rugulose. Submetapleural carina present on anterior 0.4 of metapleuron, weakly convex, posterior 0.6 of submetapleural carina replaced by wrinkles. Metasternum 0.8
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as long as mesosternum, with irregular transverse wrinkles. Propodeum elongate (
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 812" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 8 - 12. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 8 head and antenna, lateral view 9 scutellum and propodeum, dorsal view 10 mid claw, lateral view 11 fore wing 12 apex of metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures8-12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367441" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures8-12">9</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1317" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figures 13 - 17. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 13 mesosoma, lateral view 14 scutellum, propodeum, first tergite and base of second tergite, dorsal view 15 second tergite, dorsolateral view 16 third to eighth tergites and ovipositor sheath, dorsal view 17 hind leg lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures13-17" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367442" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures13-17">14</figureCitation>
), strongly rugose; median longitudinal carinae strong and reaching to posterior end of propodeum, anteriorly convergent, with transverse wrinkles in between; dorsal area with irregular wrinkles; pleural area with transverse wrinkles; pleural carina complete and sharp. Propodeal spiracle elongate, 2.5
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as long as wide, separated from pleural carina by 1.0
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its own longest diameter.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Figures 8-12.</emphasis>
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sp. nov. (female holotype)
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head and antenna, lateral view
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scutellum and propodeum, dorsal view
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mid claw, lateral view
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fore wing
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apex of metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Wings</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Fore wing (
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) with vein 1cu-a distad of M&amp;RS by 0.2
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length of 1cu-a; 2rs-m basad 2m-cu by 0.83
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length of 2rs-m. Hind wing with 8 distal hamuli; CU &amp; cu-a reclivous, distinctly intercepted at upper 0.27; distal abscissa of CU weakly pigmented.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Legs</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Fore and mid legs slender. Hind coxa elongate, 3.2
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as long as its maximum width, sparsely punctulate, punctures on dorsal area sparser. Hind femur (
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) 2.8
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as long as its maximum width. Hind tibia 1.9
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as long as hind femur; tibial spurs very short, inner spur equal to outer spur, 0.18
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length of hind basitarsus. Ratio of length of first to fifth hind tarsomeres as follows: 5: 2.3: 1.5: 1.0: 2.1. Tarsal claw strongly bent (
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).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Metasoma</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
First tergite (
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) 3.0
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as long as its apical width, dorsally rugose punctate, with a longitudinal median furrow on anterior 0.4, laterally strongly rugose; sclerotized part of first sternite extending behind spiracle, 0.63
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as long as tergite; spiracle convex, located at anterior 0.4. Second tergite (
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) 1.42
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as long as posterior width, anterior 0.2 of tergite granulate punctate, remainder with fine punctures. Third tergite (
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) finely punctulate, anteriorly with fine leathery texture, anterior lateral corner with a small thyridium on each side. Ovipositor sheath (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 812" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 8 - 12. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 8 head and antenna, lateral view 9 scutellum and propodeum, dorsal view 10 mid claw, lateral view 11 fore wing 12 apex of metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures8-12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367441" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures8-12">Fig. 12</figureCitation>
) 0.25
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as long as hind tibia.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Figures 13-17.</emphasis>
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sp. nov. (female holotype)
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mesosoma, lateral view
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scutellum, propodeum, first tergite and base of second tergite, dorsal view
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second tergite, dorsolateral view
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third to eighth tergites and ovipositor sheath, dorsal view
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hind leg lateral view.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Colour</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Body mainly black. Head black, face with a pair of obscure yellow marks laterally just above tentorial pits; these yellow marks are very distinct in female paratypes (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1924" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 19 - 24. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. 19 male face, front view 20 face of female paratype 21 head and mesosoma of male paratype, lateral view 22 head and mesosoma of male paratype, dorsal view 23 head and mesosoma of female type, lateral veiw 24 mid claw of female paratype." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367444" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24">Fig. 20</figureCitation>
) and hardly discernible in holotype (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 27" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2 - 7. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. (female holotype) 2 face, frontal view 3 head, dorsal view 4 head and frontal half of mesosoma, lateral view 5 head and mesoscutum, dorsal view 6 metapleuron, propodeum and base of first tergite, lateral view 7 mesopleuron and mesosternum, lateroventral view." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367440" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure2-7">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
). Mandible testaceous with lower margin and apical teeth black. Stipes and prementum black. Labial and maxillary palpi yellow. Antenna with scape and pedicel black, flagellum dorsally blackish brown and ventrally yellowish brown. Fore and mid legs buff with coxae black; hind leg black, apex of trochanter yellow, trochantellus blackish brown, proximal base of hind femur ventrally buff, proximal half of hind tibia ventrally dull yellow and dorsally dark brown to blackish brown, apical half of hind tibia black. Hind margins of tergites 1-7 narrowly yellow. Tegula black. Wings hyaline, with veins and pterostigma blackish brown.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">
Body length 7.0-10.0 mm. Antenna with 19-20 flagellomeres; yellow spots on face obscure to distinct (
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1924" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 19 - 24. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. 19 male face, front view 20 face of female paratype 21 head and mesosoma of male paratype, lateral view 22 head and mesosoma of male paratype, dorsal view 23 head and mesosoma of female type, lateral veiw 24 mid claw of female paratype." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367444" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24">20</figureCitation>
).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Male</emphasis>
(
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1924" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 19 - 24. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. 19 male face, front view 20 face of female paratype 21 head and mesosoma of male paratype, lateral view 22 head and mesosoma of male paratype, dorsal view 23 head and mesosoma of female type, lateral veiw 24 mid claw of female paratype." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367444" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24">19</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1924" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 19 - 24. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. 19 male face, front view 20 face of female paratype 21 head and mesosoma of male paratype, lateral view 22 head and mesosoma of male paratype, dorsal view 23 head and mesosoma of female type, lateral veiw 24 mid claw of female paratype." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367444" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24">21</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1924" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 19 - 24. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. 19 male face, front view 20 face of female paratype 21 head and mesosoma of male paratype, lateral view 22 head and mesosoma of male paratype, dorsal view 23 head and mesosoma of female type, lateral veiw 24 mid claw of female paratype." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367444" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24">22</figureCitation>
). Body length 8.2 mm, fore wing 5.4 mm. similar to female. Differences from female as follows: antenna ventrally yellow to yellowish brown; face and clypeus (except lower margin blackish) yellow (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1924" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 19 - 24. Bicurta hejunhuai sp. nov. 19 male face, front view 20 face of female paratype 21 head and mesosoma of male paratype, lateral view 22 head and mesosoma of male paratype, dorsal view 23 head and mesosoma of female type, lateral veiw 24 mid claw of female paratype." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367444" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" tableDoi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24">Fig. 19</figureCitation>
), sometimes with a small blackish spot on face centrally; frons with several transverse wrinkles just above antennal sockets; first tergite centrally with two distinct carinae which extend to posterior 0.7 of tergite, posterior tips of carinae irregularly branched. Paramere apically truncate.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Figure 18.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Bicurta hejunhuai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. (male, paratype) habitus, lateral view.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption ID-Zenodo-Dep="3599938" doi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figures19-24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367444" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" start="Figures 1924" startId="F6">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Figures 19-24.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Bicurta hejunhuai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">19</emphasis>
male face, front view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">20</emphasis>
face of female paratype
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">21</emphasis>
head and mesosoma of male paratype, lateral view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">22</emphasis>
head and mesosoma of male paratype, dorsal view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">23</emphasis>
head and mesosoma of female type, lateral veiw
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">24</emphasis>
mid claw of female paratype.
</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="93" type="variation">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Body length 6.2-8.2 mm, fore wing length 4.6-5.2 mm. Fore wing with vein 1cu-a opposite or slightly distad to M&amp;RS.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="93" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">
The new specie is named in honour of Prof. He Junhua from Zhejiang University in recognition of his years of dedicated and conscientious performance in the study of Chinese
<taxonomicName authorityName="Sheng, Broad &amp; Sun" authorityYear="2012" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" rank="order">Hymenoptera</taxonomicName>
, and also for the celebration of his 90th birthday.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="93" type="comparisons">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Comparison.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">
The new species is similar to the genotype,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">B. sinica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, in its overall appearance and colour pattern. But it can be distinguished from
<taxonomicName lsidName="B. sinica" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" rank="species" species="sinica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">B. sinica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the face having two obscure or distinct yellow marks (the face of
<taxonomicName lsidName="B. sinica" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" rank="species" species="sinica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">B. sinica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has the ventral inner orbits, clypeus and a stripe passing through the anterior tentorial pits yellow); the mandible weakly narrowed from middle toward the apex, with middle width of mandible 0.57
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
as wide as the basal width of mandible (
<taxonomicName lsidName="B. sinica" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" rank="species" species="sinica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">B. sinica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with the mandible strongly narrowed from middle toward the apex, with middle width of mandible 0.26
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
as wide as the basal width of mandible, measurements based on the figure of
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; the central part of the face with sparse punctures (with dense punctures in
<taxonomicName lsidName="B. sinica" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" rank="species" species="sinica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">B. sinica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); the mesosternum polished, with sparse punctures (
<taxonomicName lsidName="B. sinica" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" rank="species" species="sinica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">B. sinica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has the mesosternum densely punctate); and the fore wing vein 1cu-a usually distinctly distad of M&amp;RS (1cu-a opposite M&amp;RS in
<taxonomicName lsidName="B. sinica" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" rank="species" species="sinica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">B. sinica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="93" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">
The species was reared from the larvae of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wei" authorityYear="2015" class="Insecta" family="Cephidae" genus="Stenocephus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Stenocephus fraxini" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fraxini">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Stenocephus fraxini</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Wei (
<taxonomicName authorityName="Shinohara" authorityYear="1999" class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Hymenoptera</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cephidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Cephidae</taxonomicName>
) in Northern China.
</paragraph>
<caption ID-Zenodo-Dep="3599940" doi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure25" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367445" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" start="Figure 25" startId="F7">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Figure 25.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Bicurta hejunhuai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov., female paratype on a leaf of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Fraxinus pennsylvanica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in Shenyang City, Liaoning province (cell phone photo by Jia-He Yan).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption ID-Zenodo-Dep="3599942" doi="10.3897/jhr.74.39570.figure26" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/367446" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" start="Figure 26" startId="F8">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Figure 26.</emphasis>
One habitat of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Bicurta hejunhuai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov.: greening trees
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Fraxinus pennsylvanica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the street of Downtown Shenyang City, Liaoning province, China (cell phone photo by Jia-He Yan).
</paragraph>
</caption>
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