Parerigone aurea Brauer

Wang, Qiang, Zhang, Chuntian & Wang, Xinhua, 2015, Review of the genus Parerigone Brauer (Diptera: Tachinidae) with five new species from China, Zootaxa 3919 (3), pp. 457-478 : 458-459

Parerigone aurea Brauer

Parerigone aurea Brauer, 1898: 540 . Holotype male (NHMW, Herting 1974: 143). Type locality: Russia, Primorskiy Kray, Khasan District, Narva Peninsula.— Herting & Dely-Draskovits, 1993: 417 (Palaearctic catalogue).— Chao et al., 1998: 2167 ( China).— O’Hara et al., 2009: 131 (Chinese catalogue).— Shima, 2011: 677 (notes).

Diagnosis. Medium-sized flies with dense golden yellow or pale yellow pruinosity. Vertex about 0.2 of head width; gena about 0.4 of eye height; parafacial slightly narrower than 1st flagellomere at mid-height, the latter about 2.5 times as long as pedicel; 2nd aristomere about twice as long as wide; palpus reddish yellow. Anatergite bare; thoracic hairs yellowish or pale yellowish white; 3 postsutural acrostichal setae; scutellum with 4 pairs of marginal setae; basicosta dark brown; legs black, tibia reddish brown; mid tibia with 2 anterodorsal and 1 ventral setae; hind tibia with 2 preapical dorsal setae. Abdomen with pale yellow hairs ventrally.

Material examined. CHINA: 3 males, Nandian, Benxi, 450 m, Liaoning, 1-5.vii.1977, W.Q. Xue; 1 female, Nanshan, Yichun, 530 m, Heilongjiang, 13.vii.1998, C.T. Zhang; 1 male, Qianshan, Anshan, 740 m, Liaoning, 22.vi.2007, N. Jiang; 10 males 4 females, Qiuqianjia Forestry Centre, Jingyuan, 1800 m, Ningxia, 3-4.vii.2008, J.Y. Liu, Z.Y. Yao; 1 male, Guamagou Forestry Centre, Longyang, 2200 m, Ningxia, 5.vii.2008, Z.Y. Yao; 20 males, Heshangmaozi, Tanggou, Benxi, 600–650 m, Liaoning, 23.vii.2008, C.T. Zhang; 1 female, Qiuqianjia Forestry Centre, Jingyuan, 1800–1850 m, Ningxia, 11.vii.2009, C. Fu; 6 males, Mt. Tiecha, Benxi, 600–912 m, Liaoning, 3.vii.2010, C.T. Zhang, S.D. Wang, Y. Chi; 6 males 1 female, Mt. Wutai, Xi’an, 1300–1600 m, Shaanxi, 26-28.vi.2012, L. Cui, Q. Wang ( SYNU).

Distribution. China (Heilongjiang, Liaoning*, Ningxia*, Sichuan, Shaanxi), Russia (southern Far East). *Newly recorded.