Pachyprotasis zhengi Wei & Zhong, 2006

Zhong, Yihai, Li, Zejian & Wei, Meicai, 2021, Review of the Pachyprotasis flavipes group (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) from China with descriptions of two new species, Zoologia (e 59733) 38, pp. 1-50 : 42

Pachyprotasis zhengi Wei & Zhong, 2006

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Pachyprotasis zhengi Zhong. & Wei, 2006: 621–622 , figs 621, 622.

Diagnosis. Female. Body length 9.0 mm. This species can be distinguished from othersimilar species of the P.flavipes group by the following characters: inner and hind orbit white; lateral part of median mesoscutal lobe white; mesopleuron white, only mesopleural groove black, lower part of mesepisternum sometimes with a short and narrow black band, metapleuron entirely white; hind coxa to basal 2/5 of femur white, outer side of coxa and trochanter with narrow black stripes; apical 3/5 of femur, tibia and tarsus reddish-brown, extreme apex of tibia and tarsomere 5 black; punctures on dorsal part of head large and deep, on mesepisternum moderate.

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Body length of female 8.5–9.0 mm.

Distribution. China (Sichuan, Yunnan).

Type material. Holotype, ♀, China, Yunnan province, Deqin, Mt. Baima Snow , 28°28’N, 98°56’E, alt. 3500 m, 16-VII-2004, Hu ZHOU leg. ( ASMN) . Paratypes, 4♀, China, Yunnan province, Lijiang, Mt. Yulong Snow , 27°08’N, 100°12’E, alt. 2500 m, 15- VI-1996, Wenjun BU leg. ; 1♀, China, Yunnan province, Lijiang, Mt. Yulong Snow , 27°08’N, 100°12’E, alt. 3000 m, 15-VI-1996, Leyi ZHENG leg .; 1♀, China, Yunnan province, Xianggelila, Xiaozhongdian , 27°48’N, 99°72’E, alt. 3000 m, 18-VII-2004, Hu ZHOU leg. ( ASMN) .

Non-type material. 1♀, China, Yunnan province, Xianggelila, Xiaozhongdian, 27°50’N, 99°40’E, alt. 3260 m, 11-VI-2009, Yihai ZHONG leg.; 1♀, China, Yunnan province, Lijiang, Mt. Yulong Snow , 27°08’N, 100°12’E, alt. 2945 m, 6-VI-2009, Meicai WEI leg .; 1♀, China, Sichuan province, Luding, Yanzhigou , 29°22’N, 102°00’E, alt. 2120 m, 2-VI-2009, Meicai WEI leg .; 1♀, China, Tibet Autonomous Region, Mangkang, 29°41’N, 98°36’E, alt. 3600 m, 5-VII-2013, Wei XIAO & Ya LI leg. ( ASMN) .