Alloxiphia sexpalpa Wei, 2002

Sun, Zemin, Niu, Gengyun, Song, Liangdong, Wan, Siying & Wei, Meicai, 2021, Review of Alloxiphia Wei (Hymenoptera: Xiphydriidae), with descriptions of two new species from China, Zoological Systematics 46 (4), pp. 317-322 : 322

Alloxiphia sexpalpa Wei, 2002

Alloxiphia sexpalpa Wei, 2002: 856 .

Material examined. 1♂, holotype, Mt. Jianfengling , Hainan, China, November 23, 1982, Qiyong Weng leg.

Distribution. China (Hainan).

Remarks. This species can be easily recognized from its known congeners by the head behind eyes and all abdominal tergites black entirely; the face between antennal toruli with recognizable longitudinal carinae; the postocellar area largely polished and smooth with anterior margin only rugose; the 5th maxillary palpomere with a short and small apical process.

Funding This research was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31970447, 31672344).

Acknowledgements Thanks are due to Dr. Zejian Li and Dr. Mengmeng Liu for the gifts of the sawfly specimens collected from Zhejiang. The authors are deeply grateful to the anonymous referees for valuable comments and suggestions.