Gasteruption amoyense Pasteels, 1958 Figs 13-17, 18-26

Gasteruption amoyense Pasteels, 1958: 178-179; Zhao et al. 2012: 17-19.

Gasteruption curiosum Pasteels, 1958: 177-178; Zhao et al. 2012: 17 (synonymised with G. amoyense Pasteels, 1958).

Additional material.

1 ♀ (NWUX), "NW China: Shaanxi, Taibai Mt., Haopingsi, Meixian [= part of Baoji], Shangbaiyun, 4.viii.2017, Jiangli Tan, NWUX" ; 1 ♀ (RMNH), "NW China: Shaanxi, Xunyangba, Ningshaan, 33.55°N 108.55°E, 16.viii.2016, 1481 m alt., JL Tan & T Zhou, NWUX" ; 1 ♀ (NWUX), "S China: Fujian, Huboliao NNR, Letu, 24.54°N 117.12°E, Mal. trap, viii.2015, alt. 300 m alt., Qingqing Tan, NWUX" .

Notes.

Similar to the West Palaearctic G. syriacum Szépligeti, 1903, because of the slender pronotum (Fig. 19), the elongate head (Fig. 25), the distinctly inflated hind tibia (Fig. 26) and the yellowish or orange mandibles, but differs mainly by the very fine granulate-coriaceous sculpture of the mesoscutum with only sparse (and often shallow) punctures, in addition to smaller ocelli. Gasteruption syriacum has the mesoscutum coarser punctate and the interspaces are only finely punctulate or somewhat coriaceous and the ocelli are large (van Achterberg and Talebi 2014).

Distribution.

China (Fujian, Hong Kong, Hunan, Shaanxi, Zhejiang). New for Shaanxi and Fujian; Shaanxi is the first record from the Palaearctic Region.