Pristaulacus pseudoiosephi, Chen, Hua-yan, Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio & Xu, Zai-fu, 2016

Chen, Hua-yan, Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio & Xu, Zai-fu, 2016, A revision of the Chinese Aulacidae (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea), ZooKeys 587, pp. 77-124 : 109-112

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Aulacidae

Pristaulacus pseudoiosephi sp. n. Figs 99, 100-106, 107-110, 122

Material examined.

Holotype, ♀ (IZCAS), CHINA: Guangxi, Longteng, Mt. Tianping, 740 m, 18.VI.1962, Shu-yong Wang, IOZ(E) 1903953. Paratypes: 1 ♀ (IZCAS), CHINA: Yunnan, Jinping, Mengla, 420 m, 21.IV.1956, Ke-ren Huang et al., IOZ(E) 1903951; 1 ♀ (IZCAS), Yunnan, Jinping, Mengla, 400 m, 24.IV.1956, Ke-ren Huang et al., IOZ(E) 1903952.

Etymology.

The name refers to the similar appearance to Pristaulacus iosephi .

Diagnosis.

Body black; forewing infuscate, with large dark brown spot under stigma; occipital margin concave, with a wide and deep medial groove; pronotum with two anteroventrally projecting tooth-like process; pretarsal claw with six tooth-like processes; ovipositor 0.9 × forewing length.

Description.

Holotype. Female. Body length 16.6 mm; forewing length 11.3 mm.

Colour. Black except: scape of antenna, palpi and tarsi dark brown; forewing infuscate, with large dark brown spot under stigma; basal 2/3 of hind wing hyaline, apical 1/3 infuscate.

Head. From above, 1.2 × wider than long, shiny; lower interocular distance 1.3 × eye height; malar space 0.2 × eye height; occipital margin concave, with a wide and deep medial groove; temple, from above, rounded, distinctly longer than eye length; occipital carina 0.3 × diameter of an ocellus; POL:OOL=1.1; frons and clypeus densely and finely punctate; vertex and temple largely smooth with sparse and fine punctures; A 3 2.4 × longer than wide; A4 3.7 × longer than wide, and 1.8 × longer than A3; A5 3.2 × longer than wide, and 1.5 × longer than A3.

Mesosoma. Pronotum coarsely areolate-rugose, with two well-developed anterior and posterior tooth-like processes on lateroventral margin; propleuron largely smooth with sparse fine punctures, shiny; mesoscutum transverse-carinate anteromedially, remainder of mesocutum coarsely areolate-rugose, anterior part strongly emarginate medially, rounded laterally; notauli deep but narrow; scutellum, axillae, metanotum, propodeum, mesopleuron and metapleuron coarsely areolate-rugose; forewing with vein 2-rs+m long, cells SM2 and D1 distantly separated; hind wing with veins somewhat distinct, cells Cu and R1+Rs contiguous; hind coxa transverse-carinate; hind basitarsus 11.3 × longer than wide, and 1.1 × of tarsomeres 2-5; pretarsal claw with six tooth-like processes.

Metasoma. Smooth, shining, with fine white pubescence on segment 3 to apex; petiole elongate, 3.3 × longer than wide; ovipositor 0.9 × forewing length.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Guangxi, Yunnan).

Biology.

Collected in April and June. Host not known.