Asecodes turcicum (Nees)

Fig. 18

Asecodes turcicus (Nees): Hansson 1996: 162.

Closterocerus turcicus (Nees): Gumovsky 2003: 32.

Desmatocharis turcica (Nees): Graham 1959: 199.

Desmatocharis turcicus (Nees): Schauff 1991: 47.

Entedon turcicus (Nees): Walker 1839: 23.

Eulophus turcicus Nees, 1834: 155.

Teleopterus turcicus (Nees): Hansson 1994: 669.

Material examined.

2♀ [NEFU; 1 on card, 1 on slide], China, Tibet, Medog County (altitude: 1400 m), 22-29.VI. 017, Zhaxi, by Malaise trap ; 3♀ [NEFU; 2 on cards, 1 on slide], CHINA, Tibet, Medog County (altitude: 1400 m), 6-13.VII.2017, Zhaxi, by Malaise trap .

Diagnosis.

Female. Scape compressed; mesoscutellum with anterior 2/3 reticulated, posterior 1/3 smooth and shiny; fore wing hyaline with an infuscate transverse band below MV; metasoma subequal to mesosoma, shorter than head plus mesosoma (ratio length of: metasoma: head: mesosoma about 3.2: 1: 3); gaster ovate.

Host.

Unkonwn.

Distribution.

China (Tibet (new record), Gansu (Zhang et al. 2007) and Sichuan (Ling 2000) Provinces), Japan (Kamijo 1986), Russia (Gumovsky 2003), India (Gumovsky 2003), Germany (Nees 1834), Czechoslovakia, France, Ireland (north and south), United Kingdom, Moldova ( Bouček and Askew 1968), Netherlands (Gijswijt 2003), Sweden (Hansson 1991), Czech Republic (Kalina 1989).

Comments.

See Nees (1834) for the original description, and Jamali et al. (2021) for the photographs of the neotype of Asecodes turcicum .