Zodion vsevolodi Zimina, 1974

Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2014, Some remarks on rare and new Palaearctic species of the genus Zodion Latreille (Diptera: Conopidae), Zootaxa 3860 (3), pp. 235-252 : 251

Zodion vsevolodi Zimina, 1974

(figs 34–37)

Material examined: Material: JAPAN: 1♂, Paratype, 4.vii.1965, Aomori prf., Aoni, Kuroishi shi, leg. R. Narumi, coll. Moscow State University, Russia ( ZMUM); 1♂, 15.v.1974, Honshu, Kuriyagawa, Morloka, Iwate, emerged from host Ceratina flavipes Smith , leg. Y. Maeta, PJHS; 1♀, 20.vii.1971, Honshu, Sugadaira, 1000 m, leg. V.S. van der Goot & J.A.W. Lucas, PJHS; SOUTH KOREA: 1♀, 6.–27.vi.2004, Jirisan, Hamyang-gum, Macheon-myon, Samyeong-li [35°20.930’N 127°38.503’E], leg. P. Tripton, PJHS.

Zodion vsevolodi can easily be recognised by the combination of the following characters: Antenna almost completely orange-brown; pedicel about as long as basal flagellomere (fig. 36); ocellar triangle short but distinct (posterior view), more-or-less shining brown; frons mainly brown, with several long black hairs; proboscis short (tip of labellum to palps: head height = 0.8–1.1); palp orange-brown, with bristles which are shorter than the length of the palp; scutum covered with long hairs which are more-or-less arranged in lines (fig. 37); dusting pattern on scutum only indistinct, with two submedial lines in the anterior half and hardly visible longer sublateral stripes (fig. 34); dorsal surface of the scutellum without hairs; 2–3 bristles on the posterior margin of the scutellum; wing length 3.9–4.8 mm; veins completely brown; radial cell r4+5 open or closed; legs brown with distinct blackish dusting on femora; abdomen of male (fig. 35) with large brown spots on tergites 1–3, a pair of brown triangular spots on tergite 4 and a pair of small brown spots on tergite 5; abdomen of female with indistinct pattern; abdomen sparsely haired, with more-or-less distinct brown spots at the bases of some hairs; epandrium (♂) or protandrium (♀) brown and therefore not contrasting with the brown abdomen.

Zodion vsevolodi has previously only been reported from Japan (Honshu) and Russia (Primorskij Kraj) by Zimina (1976) and Maeta & MacFarlane (1993).