Dusona japonica
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Ichneumonidae
Genus: Dusona
Name
Dusona japonica (Cameron, 1906) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Campoplex japonica Cameron, 1906: 98-99. Holotype: female; TD: NHM.
- Dusona interima Gupta & Gupta, 1977: 1-226. Type: female; TD: GUPTA.
Material examined
[Korea]: 1 female, Seoul, Nowon-gu, Hagye1-dong, 25 April 1998, H.J. Yun; 2 females, GB Gyeongsan-si, Dae-dong, Yeungnam univ., 22-29 April 2008, J.W. Lee; 1 female, JN Yeongkwang-gun, Yeomsan-myeon, Bongnam-ri, 23 April 2009, J.K. Choi & D.H. Lee.
Redescription based on Korean specimens
Female. Body length 11.0-12.0 mm.
Color: Face and mesosoma black. Mandible dark brown to black. Tegula black. All legs black; fore femur and tibia with yellow spots on anterior part. 3rd tergum and 4th tergum reddish brown, basal part of 5th tergum reddish brown. Ovipositor reddish brown to dark brown and ovipositor sheath black.
Head: Frons not depressed, without median longitudinal carina. Antennal flagellum with 48-52 segments. Antennal carina low and narrow. Face moderately convex, densely punctated. Clypeus a little separated from face by weak groove, with truncate apical margin (Fig. 4Q). Mandible tapered to apex, lower tooth as long as upper tooth. Malar space longer than half of basal width of mandible.
Mesosoma: First radius of fore wing originated from middle of pterostigma. Areolet with short stalk, 2nd recurrent vein begin before middle of areolet (Fig. 5Q). Nervellus inclivous, intercepted in lower 0.1, discoidella absent. Hind wing with 6 distal hamuli. Propodeum without areola, costula absent.
Metasoma: Epipleurum not separated from the 3rd tergum, with lateral black line above the ventrolateral edge (Fig. 7E). 1st tergum 4.6 times as long as wide, 2nd tergum 1.9 times as long as wide. Ovipositor shorter than hind basitarsus.
Distribution
Korea (new record), China, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia (Irkutsk, Sakhalin) and Uzbekistan.
Region
Eastern Palaearctic, Oriental.
Host
Unknown.
Taxon Treatment
- Choi, J; Lee, J; 2014: Addition to the study of the genus Dusona (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Campopleginae) in Korea with description of a new species and key to the Korean species ZooKeys, 424: 59-89. doi
