Alloxysta consobrina ( Zetterstedt, 1838 )

Ferrer-Suay, Mar, Selfa, Jesús & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2018, Palaearctic species of Charipinae (Hymenoptera, Figitidae): two new species, synthesis and identification key, European Journal of Taxonomy 427, pp. 1-110 : 37-39

Alloxysta consobrina ( Zetterstedt, 1838)

Figs 2.14, 4.12

Cynips consobrina Zetterstedt, 1838: 410 . Type: deposited in MZLU (examined).

Xystus fuscicornis Hartig, 1841: 352 . Synonymized by Ferrer-Suay et al. (2013a: 86). Type: ZSM (examined).

Allotria consobrina – Dahlbom 1842: 4.

Allotria (Allotria) consobrina – Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1902: 41.

Charips (Charips) consobrinus – Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1910: 288.

Alloxysta consobrina – Forshage in Ferrer-Suay et al. 2012a: 22.

Diagnosis

Alloxysta consobrina is mainly characterized by a closed radial cell that is 2.7 times as long as wide (Fig. 4.12); the presence of pronotal carinae; the absence of propodeal carinae; and male and female antenna with rhinaria beginning on F4, F2 longer than F3, F3 shorter than F4 (Fig. 2.14), and bowed F1–F 3 in males. It is similar to A. circumscripta , but can be differentiated by flagellomere proportions (F1 is longer than F2 and F2 is subequal to F 3 in A. consobrina (Fig. 2.14), while F1 is subequal to F2 and F2 is shorter than or subequal to F 3 in A. circumscripta (Fig. 2.12)) and the size of the radial cell (2.7 times as long as wide in A. consobrina (Fig. 4.12), but 2.5 times in A. circumscripta (Fig. 4.10)).

Material examined

Lectotype

LAPPLAND (no more detailed information): ♀ [lectotypus Xystus castaneus Htg, Zoologische Staatssammlg. München (pink label)], [Lectotype design. Evenhuis, according to Evenhuis (1982) (red label)], [ Alloxysta castanea ( Hartig, 1841) ♀ M. Ferrer-Suay det. 2011] ( MZLU).

Additional specimens (22 ♂♂, 175 ♀♀)

AUSTRIA: 2 ♀♀ [Tyrol nr. Oetz., 8oo– 900 m, 5–14 Jun. 1964, J.A.J. Clark] ( BMNH B.M. 1965-494).

SERBIA: 1 ♀ [Beograd 23 May 1962, swept on Lucerne, N. Tanasijevic per V.F. Eastop 87] ( BMNH); 1 ♂ [Beograd, 23 May 1962, swept on Lucerne, N. Tanasijevic per V.F. Eastop. 89] ( BMNH).

CZECH REPUBLIC: 1 ♂, 1 ♀ [Moravia, Lanzhot-Ranspurk, 7–9 Aug. 1991, L. Masner, sweep, climax flood forest] ( CNCI C-268); 2 ♀♀ [Moravia, Javorina, 800–900 m, 10 Aug. 1991, L. Masner, sweep, climax deciduous forest] ( CNCI C-266).

EGYPT: 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ [Dokki, Mar. 1969, Ex. Aphis No 8, C.I.E., A3534, Alloxysta victrix ♂ ♀ Westw. det. J. Quinlan, 1970] ( BMNH); 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ [Ex Brevicoryne brassicae L. (handwritten), Egypt, Giza, 8 Aug. 1964, D. Herakly (handwritten), Alloxysta (Först) Hellén ? minuta Htg ♂, det. J. Quinlan, 1965] ( BMNH); 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ [Beheira, 15 Apr. 1975, M. El-DoKroury] ( BMNH).

GERMANY: 1 ♀ [Mainz, 18 Sep.–1 Oct. 1965, A.W. Steffan]; 1 ♀ [C-228, Hesse, Gelnhausen, Sep. 1967, MT, A.W. Steffan] ( CNCI C-236); 2 ♂♂, 16 ♀♀ [Schwarzwald, Todtmoos environs, 6 Aug. 1984, L. Masner, screen sweeping] ( CNCI C-235).

JAPAN: 1 ♀ [Kyushu, Fukuoka, Mt. Hiko, 700 m, 9–10 May 1989, M.J. Sharkey Sweep] ( CNCI C-138); 1 ♀ [Ibaraki, Tsukuba, NIAES, 10–17 Jul. 1989, M. Sharkey, FIT and MT] ( CNCI C-148); 4 ♀♀ [Fukuoka, Mt. Hiko, 700 m, 9–10 May 1989, sweep, M.J. Sharkey] ( CNCI C-183); 2 ♀♀ [Ibaraki, Tsukuba, NIAES, 8–15 Jun. 1989, M. Sharkey, FIT and MT] ( CNCI C-150); 2 ♀♀ [Ibaraki, Tsukuba, NIAES, 27 Oct.–13 Nov. 1989, PT, M. Sharkey] ( CNCI C-200); 3 ♀♀ [Fukuoka, Mt. Hiko, 12–29 May 1989, Takeno and Sharke] ( CNCI C-145); 2 ♀♀ [Ibaraki, Tsukuba, Expo site, 7–16 May 1989, M.J. Sharkey, PT] ( CNCI C-135).

MALTA: 1 ♀ [May 1982, sp DI C.I.E. A. 13986, Alloxysta Först ? sp. ♀ det. J. Quinlan, 1982] ( BMNH).

PALESTINE: 7 ♂♂, 10 ♀♀ [Mikwe, 16 Feb. 1947, per Chief Plant Protection Officer Ex Cabbage Aphis, Com. Inst. Ent. Coll. No , 10803, Pres. by Com. Inst. Ent.] ( BMNH B.M. 1948-321); 1 ♂, 1 ♀ [Mikwe, 16 Jul. 1947, C2, per Chief Prant, Protection Officer, Ex Cabbage Aphis, Com. Inst. Ent. Coll. No. 10803, Pres. by Com. Inst. Ent.] ( BMNH B.M. 1948-321).

RUSSIA: 1 ♀ [Primoskiy Kray Ussyriysk District, Gomotayozhnoye, 11–15 Aug. 2003, Malaise trap, M.V. Michailovskaya] USNM); 1 ♀ [Primorskiy Kray Ussyriysk District, Gomotayozhnoye, 43.66° N, 132.25° E, el. 200 m, 10–19 Jul. 2002, M.V. Michailovskaya, MT] ( USNM)

SLOVENIA: 1 ♂ [Slov. Bohinj Bela, 5 Jun. 1979, P.H. and S.L. Ward] ( BMNH B.M. 1979-263).

SWEDEN: 1 ♀ [Sk. Lund Zoological Mus. grounds Aug.1976: 3 ♂♂ and 18 ♀♀; Sö., Sandemar T.H. and J.Q., Aug. 1976] ( BMNH); 1 ♂ [Sk. Höör distr., 8 Jun. 1938, D.M.S.P. and J.F.P.] ( BMNH B.M. 1938- 414); 2 ♀♀ [Sk, S. Sandby Maryd, T.H. and J.Q. Aug.1976] ( BMNH); 4 ♀♀ [Sk., Lund Zoological Mus, grounds, Aug. 1976] ( BMNH).

SWITZERLAND: 26 ♂♂, 33 ♀♀ [Dielsdorf, 650 m, 17 Aug. 1984, L. Masner, sweep] ( CNCI C-290); 51 ♀♀ [Turgau, Unterwasser environs, 1440 m, 4 Aug. 1984, L. Masner sweeping] ( CNCI C-293).

SYRIA: 1 ♀ [hebanon aley, 14 Jan. 1941, A.S. Iachauk, FA Carly lower aphis (handwritten), Charips sp. G. Nixon det. 1944] ( BMNH).

TURKEY: 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ [Turkey, Inciralti-Izmir, 24 Apr. 1975, Enis Erkin] ( BMNH).

Distribution

Cosmopolitan.

Certain records: Africa (no country mentioned) ( Evenhuis 1974: 167), Andorra ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2011: 356), Argentina ( de Santis 1937: 1; Pujade-Villar et al. 2002: 543; Berta et al. 2002: 67), Brazil ( Maria de Sousa & Paes Bueno 1993 –1994: 29; Betini 1975: 54, 1976: 76; Lazzari 1985: 9; Teixeira 1991: 47; Cividanes 2002: 251; Pujade-Villar et al. 2002: 543; Vaz et al. 2004: 225), Chile ( Pujade-Villar et al. 2002: 543), Colombia ( Pujade-Villar et al. 2010b), England ( Müller et al. 1999: 352; van Veen et al. 2003: 450), Germany ( Hartig 1841: 352; van Veen et al. 2003: 450; Hübner et al. 2002: 508), Italy ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2014b), Lappland ( Zetterstedt 1838: 410), Mexico ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2013m: 35), New Zealand ( Valentine 1975: 59; Ferrer-Suay et al. 2012h: 232), Peru ( Pujade-Villar et al. 2002: 543), Serbia ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2013b: 356), Uruguay ( Pujade-Villar et al. 2002: 543), Spain ( Archimowitsch 1952: 112), India ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2013i).

Uncertain records: Australia ( Froggatt 1904: 603; Carver 1992: 775), France ( Kieffer 1902a: 16; De Gaulle 1908: 26), Hawaii ( Beardsley 1985: 50), Hungary ( Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1910: 285), Iran ( Lotfalizadeh 2002b: 1; Lotfalizadeh & van Veen 2004: 119), Ireland ( Chua 1978: 436), Romania (Feraru et al. 2005: 67), Scandinavia ( Zetterstedt 1838: 410), Scotland ( Cameron 1886: 85), Tenerife ( Kieffer 1904: 63), USA (California) ( Horn 1988: 354), USA (Florida) ( Ashmead 1887: 9; Spencer 1926: 148), Wales ( Weld 1952: 252).

New records: Austria, Czech Republic, Egypt, Japan, Malta, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Switzerland and Turkey.