Apanteles nixoni Song & Chen, 2002

Liu, Zhen, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin & Gupta, Ankita, 2020, The ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from China with the descriptions of forty-eight new species, Zootaxa 4807 (1), pp. 1-205 : 124

Apanteles nixoni Song & Chen, 2002

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Apanteles nixoni Song & Chen, 2002: 1–8 . Holotype ♀ — Fujian, China [FAFU]. Chen & Song, 2004: 73.

Diagnosis. Body length 1.8 mm, fore wing length 2.3 mm. Body black, hind femur brown to blackish. Ocelli small, posterior tangent to anterior ocellus hardly touching posterior ocelli, distance between fore and hind ocellus slightly longer than diameter of hind ocellus. Antenna distinctly longer than body length, penultimate flagellomere 1.7× longer than wide. Interspaces between punctures on disc of mesonotum smaller than its diameter. Areola on propodeum open, V-shaped apically, with fine costulae, posterio-lateral parts unsculptured. Pterostigma 3.0× as long as its widest part, vein 1-R1 1.2× longer than pterostigma, vein r 1.4× longer than vein 2-SR, weakly angled at junction. T1 parallel-sided at anterior 2/3, slightly narrowed at apical third, 2.5× longer than hind width, turned-over part slightly shiny, weakly rugose-punctate laterally, longitudinal channel indistinct; T2 shiny and nearly polished, except a few weak punctures, 4.3× wider than long in the middle; T3 2.2× longer than T2. Ovipositor sheath as long as hind tibia.

Material examined. 1♀, Mt. Wuyi , Fujian, 1985.VII.17 , Wang Jiashe, No. 865355; 1♀, Jianyang , Fujian, 1985.VIII.9 , Lin Naiquan, No. 9610526; 1♀, Dazhulan , Fujian, 1991.X.6 , Chen Xuexin, No. 920369; 2♀♀, Fengxi , Meizhou, Guangdong, 2003.VII.29 , Chen Jujian, Nos. 20048647, 20048722; 1♀, Chebaling , Shixing, Guangdong, 2003.VIII.21 , Xu Zaifu , No. 20052696 ; 1♀, Pingtai , Mt. Shiwandashan (200–400m), Guangxi, 2001.XI.28 , Ma Yun, No. 20021498; 1♀, Yinggeling , Baisha, Hainan, 2008.XI.18 , Tan Jiangli, No. 200805264; 1♀, Jianfengling , Hainan, 2007.VI.4–7 , Zeng Jie, No. 200711170; 1♀, Mt. Wugong , Gaoxiong, Taiwan, 2011.VI.15 , Tang Pu, No. 201104841; 1♀, Shouchang , Zhejiang, 1985.VIII.11 , ditto, No. 852299 .

Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Jilin, Taiwan, Zhejiang).

Remarks. Characters of the examined specimens mostly agree with the published descriptions except metasoma not longer than mesosoma and T2 4.3× wider than long in the middle.

Figures

FIGURE 60. Apanteles nixoni Song & Chen, 2002, a. habitus, lateral view; b. fore wing; c. head, frontal view; d. mesopleuron; e. head, dorsal view; f. mesonotum and scutellum, dorsal view; g. hind wing; h. propodeum and metasoma, dorsal view. Scale line = 0.5 mm.

FIGURE 102. 60–76: Distribution map of ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster, 1862. 60: A. nixoni Song & Chen, 2002; 61: A. ocellisublimus Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 62: A. opacus (Ashmead, 1905); 63: A. oritias Nixon, 1965; 64: A. pachycarinatus Song & Chen, 2002; 65: A. pellucipterus Song & Chen, 2001; 66: A. plureseta Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 67: A. prominens Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 68: A. psenes Nixon, 1965; 69: A. qudra Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 70: A. radocoxa Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 71: A. raviantenna Chen & Song, 2004; 72: A. salsala Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 73: A. salutifer Wilkinson, 1931; 74: A. saravus Nixon, 1965; 75: A. sartamus Nixon, 1965; 76: A. scrobiculatus Liu & Chen, sp. nov.