Telostholus lao Loktionov, 2021

Song, Zhi-Yan, Li, Qiang, Dong, Li-Li & Ma, Li, 2024, One new species and two new records of the spider wasp genus Telostholus Haupt, 1929 in China, with a key to the world species, Zootaxa 5403 (4), pp. 447-458 : 455

Telostholus lao Loktionov, 2021

Figs 3D–F, 3H , 5A–F

Telostholus lao Loktionov, 2021: 228 , ♂. Holotype, ♂, “ Laos, Louangnamtha, 21°09′ N, 101°19′ E, Namtha–Muang Sing , 5–31.V.1997, 900–1200 m, Vít Kubáň leg.”

Material examined. China (Yunnan): 85♂, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden ,rainforest, 21°54′N 101°16′E, 599 m, Malaise trap, 24.IV–31. V.2019, coll. Yong-sheng Pu; 14♂, same locality, rainforest, 21°54′N 101°16′E, 606 m, Malaise trap, 24.IV–31. V.2019, coll. Yong-sheng Pu; 6♂, Xishuangbanna, Jinghong, Menghai , Bulang Mountain , Malaise trap, 21°44′N 100°26′E, 1621 m, 15.III–15.IV.2021 (3♂) , 1595 m, 28. V –28. VI.2019 (3♂) ( YNAU).

Diagnosis. Male. Head in frontal view with vertex slightly and roundly produced above dorsal eye margin ( Fig. 5B ); POD: OOD = 1.15–1.25; antenna F1–F5 reddish brown, F2–F10 crenulated ventrally; F1 length 2.2–2.27 times its maximum width (on ventral side). Fore wing translucent, with brownish apical portion covering SMC2 ( Fig. 5F ). Genitalia: paramere narrow and long, slightly curved and pointed apically, its outer margin with bristles; apical part of volsella very broad, spoon-like, its ventral face (except area along inner margin) with long, dense, curved bristles ending at top with small ball; parapenial lobe in upper half somewhat crescent-shaped, with narrowing apex ( Figs 3D, 3E ). SGP in ventral view evenly narrowing toward apex, rounded apically; ventral face in apical portion only with thin erect setae; lateral margin in basal portion with setae ( Fig. 3F ). S6 deeply arcuately emarginate medially, and with small curved hooks on both side of emarginations ( Fig. 3H ).

Distribution. China (Yunnan) (new record), Laos ( Loktionov 2021).

Figures

FIGURES 3. Male genitalia and pregenital sterna. A–C, G, Telostholus venarectus Song & Ma, sp. nov. (paratype); D–F, H, Telostholus lao Loktionov, 2021. A, B, D, E, genitalia (A, D, ventral view; B, E, dorsal view); C, F, hypopygium and S7, ventral view; G, H, S6, ventral view. Scale bar: 1.0 mm.

FIGURES 5. Telostholus lao Loktionov, 2021, ♂; A habitus, lateral view; B head, frontal view; C head, lateral view; D head, pronotum, dorsal view; E postnotum, propodeum, dorsal view; F fore wing. Scale bar: 1.0.