Revision of the genus Paralipsis Foerster, 1863 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with the description of two new species
Author
van Achterberg, Cornelis
Author
Carron, Nilo F. Ortiz de Zugasti
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.606.9656
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.606.9656
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Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae
Paralipsis eikoae (Yasumatsu, 1951)
Figs 1-7
Myrmecobosca eikoae
Yasumatsu, 1951: 171-174.
Paralipsis eikoae
;
Stary
1958
: 89;
Yasumatsu 1960
: 57;
Mackauer 1968
: 22;
Takada 1968
: 91,
1976
: 15.
Material.
1 ♀ (RMNH), "[Japan:] Mt. Hiei, 15.v.1996, H. Takada", "Host:
Sappaphis piri
", "
Paralipsis eikoae
(Yasumatsu), det. H. Takada, 2015".
Diagnosis.
This species shares with
Paralipsis enervis
having the secondfourth segments of fore tarsus about as long as wide in dorsal view, the fore tarsus with medium-sized bristles apically (Figs 1, 8) and the hind tibia medially and femur subbasally parallel-sided (Figs 1, 2, 8). Differs by the dull and posteriorly finely sculptured scutellum (Fig. 7), the rather short
third-fifth
antennal segments (Fig. 4), the largely dull and distinctly finely sculptured mesoscutum (Fig. 7), the more robust middle and hind femora and tibiae, the micro-sculptured hind tibia (Figs 1-2), the vein 2-1A of fore wing absent (Fig. 6) and the slenderer first tergite (Fig. 3).
Biology.
Parasitoid of root aphids attended by the ants
Lasius sakagamii
Yamauchi & Hayashida, 1970 or
Lasius japonicus
Santschi, 1941 (
Yu et al. 2012
,
Akino and Yamaoka 1998
). Holotype male was collected from a nest of
Lasius japonicus
(published as
Lasius niger
; see
Seifert 1992
) in an old
Cryptomeria japonica
tree and the species was reared as parasitoid of the aphid
Sappaphis piri
Matsumura, 1918, on roots and subterranean stems of
Artemisia princeps
Pamp. (
Takada 1976
).
Distribution.
Reported from Japan and Far East Russia (
Yu et al. 2012
).