Pristaulacus rufobalteatus
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Aulacidae
Genus: Pristaulacus
Name
Pristaulacus rufobalteatus Cameron, 1907 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Pristaulacus rufobalteatus Cameron, 1907: 222.
- Pristaulacus rufobalteatus Cameron: Smith 2001[1]: 297; Turrisi et al. 2009[2]: 58.
Material examined
1 ♀ (IZCAS), CHINA: Yunnan, Jingdong, 1200 m, 6.III.1957, IOZ(E) 1903968; 1 ♀ (IZCAS), Yunnan, Lushui, 1900 m, 8.VI.1981, Su-bo Liao, IOZ(E) 1903969; 1 ♀ (IZCAS), CHINA: Gansu, Kang County, Qinghe Forestry Station, 2250 m, 8.VII.1999, Hong-jian Wang, IOZ(E) 1903970.
Diagnosis
Metasoma black with first tergite largely brown; fore hyaline with dark brown spot under stigma; occipital margin straight; occipital carina 0.1 × diameter of an ocellus; pronotum with one anteroventrally projecting tooth-like process; pretarsal claw with four tooth-like processes; ovipositor 0.9 × forewing length.
Redescription
Female. Body length 8.7 mm; forewing length 6.8 mm.
Colour. Antenna black with scape yellowish-orange; head black with clypeus dark brown; mesosoma black; first tergite largely brown, and remainder of tergites black; mandible brown with teeth darker; palpi brown; coxae black, femur and tibia dark brown, remainder of legs yellowish-orange with tarsi paler; ovipositor brown; fore hyaline with dark brown spot under stigma; hind wing hyaline.
Head. From above, 1.4 × wider than long, shiny; lower interocular distance 1.5 × eye height; malar space 0.3 × eye height; occipital margin straight; temple, from above, rounded, slightly shorter than eye length; occipital carina 0.1 × diameter of an ocellus; POL:OOL=1.3; lower frons and clypeus densely and finely punctate, remainder of head largely smooth with sparse and fine punctures; A3 3.7 × longer than wide; A4 6.6 × longer than wide, and 1.7 × longer than A3; A5 6.2 × longer than wide, and 1.5 × longer than A3.
Mesosoma. Pronotum coarsely rugose, with one anterior small process on lateroventral margin; propleuron dull, densely punctate ventrally, finely rugose with small smooth area dorsally; mesoscutum mostly transverse-carinate, coarsely rugose on sides, anterior part slightly emarginate medially, rounded laterally; notauli deep and wide; scutellum transverse-carinate in middle, coarsely rugose on anterior and posterior margin; axillae coarsely areolate-rugose; metanotum coarsely rugose; propodeum largely coarsely areolate-rugose, coarsely rugose in middle; mesopleuron coarsely areolate-rugose posteriodorsally, remainder rugose; metapleuron coarsely areolate-rugose; forewing with vein 2-rs+m long, cells SM2 and D1 distantly separated; hind wing veins faint to absent; hind coxa transverse-carinate; hind basitarsus 8.5 × longer than wide, and 1.3 × of tarsomeres 2–5; pretarsal claw with four tooth-like processes.
Metasoma. Smooth, shining, with fine white pubescence on segment 2 to apex; petiole elongate, 2.4 × longer than wide; ovipositor 0.9 × forewing length.
Male. Unknown.
Distribution
China (Gansu, Yunnan); India (Cameron 1907[3]).
Biology
Collected in March, June and July. Host not known.
Remarks
This is a newly recorded species for China.
Taxon Treatment
- Chen, H; Turrisi, G; Xu, Z; 2016: A revision of the Chinese Aulacidae (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea) ZooKeys, (587): 77-124. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Smith D (2001) World catalog of the family Aulacidae (Hymenoptera). Contribution on Entomology, International 4(3): 261–319.
- ↑ Turrisi G, Jennings J, Vilhelmsen L (2009) Phylogeny and generic concepts of the parasitoid wasp family Aulacidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea). Invertebrate Systematics 23: 27–59. doi: 10.1071/IS08031
- ↑ Cameron P (1907) A new species of Pristaulacus from the Sikkim Himalaya (Hym). Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 7: 222–223.
