Megischus chaoi
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Stephanidae
Genus: Megischus
Name
Megischus chaoi van Achterberg & Yang, 2004 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Megischus ruficeps Saussure: Chao 1964[1]: 378–379, 387–388, Figs II (1–2), IV (13); Belokobylskij 1995: 22.
- Megischus chaoi van Achterberg: van Achterberg and Yang 2004[2]: 109, 111–112; Hong et al. 2010[3]: 61.
Diagnosis
Temple medially roundly narrowed behind eye in dorsal view; neck postero-dorsally at about same level as middle pronotum, without distinct pronotal fold and without a cavity (Figs 234, 235); vein 1-M of fore wing about 5 times as long as vein 1-SR and 1.2 times vein m-cu; vein cu-a of fore wing strongly reclivous (Fig. 239); widened part of hind tibia of female nearly straight or weakly concave ventrally (Fig. 238); hind basitarsus about 4 times as long as wide (Fig. 236); ivory part of ovipositor sheath about twice as long as dark apical part.
Type material
Holotype, ♀ (CPPF): “[CHINA], Fukien [=Fujian], Foochow [=Fuzhou], 10.vi.1954, H. F. Chao coll.”; “Megischus ruficeps Hsiu-Fu Chao det.” (van Achterberg and Yang 2004[2]).
Description
See van Achterberg and Yang (2004)[2].
Distribution
China (Fujian).
Notes
This species is named in honour of the late Prof. Dr Hsiu-Fu Chao (Fuzhou) for his important contributions to our knowledge of the entomofauna of China (van Achterberg and Yang 2004[2]).
Taxon Treatment
- Hong, C; van Achterberg, C; Xu, Z; 2011: A revision of the Chinese Stephanidae (Hymenoptera, Stephanoidea) ZooKeys, 110: 1-108. doi
Other References
- ↑ Chao H (1964) Description of new species of Stephanidae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea) from South China. Acta entomologica Sinica 13 (3):376-395.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Achterberg C, Yang Z (2004) New species of the genera Megischus Brulléand Stephanus Jurinefrom China (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea: Stephanidae), with a key to world species of the genus Stephanus. Zoologische Medelingen Leiden 78 (3):101-117.
- ↑ Hong C, Achterberg C, Xu Z (2010) A new species of Megischus Brullé (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae) from China, with a key to the Chinese species. ZooKeys 69: 59–64. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.69.738
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