Pristaulacus fopingi, Chen, Hua-yan, Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio & Xu, Zai-fu, 2016

Chen, Hua-yan, Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio & Xu, Zai-fu, 2016, A revision of the Chinese Aulacidae (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea), ZooKeys 587, pp. 77-124 : 97-98

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Aulacidae

Pristaulacus fopingi sp. n. Figs 56, 57-62, 63-65, 122

Material examined.

Holotype, ♂ (IZCAS), CHINA: Shaanxi, Foping, 900 m, 27.VI.1999, Jian Hu, IOZ(E) 1903962.

Etymology.

Named after the type locality.

Diagnosis.

Frons with yellow areas around antennae; hind margin of head straight, without medial groove; lateroventral margin of pronotum with one tooth-like process; propleuron largely finely rugose with small smooth area posterodorsally; forewing with vein 2-rs+m long, cells SM2 and D1 distantly separated; hind coxa transverse-carinate.

Description.

Holotype. Male. Body length 12.3 mm; forewing length 8.8 mm.

Colour. Antenna black with scape brown; head black with clypeus and lower frons under antennal sockets yellow; mesosoma black; metasoma black with first tergite and anterior margin of second tergite brown; mandible dark brown; palpi yellowish-brown; coxae and hind femura black, remainder of legs yellowish-orange with tarsi paler; forewing slightly infuscate, with dark brown spot under stigma; hind wing hyaline.

Head. From above, 1.2 × wider than long, shiny; lower interocular distance 1.5 × eye height; malar space 0.3 × eye height; occipital margin straight; temple, from above, rounded, slightly shorter than eye length; occipital carina 0.1 × diameter of an ocellus; POL:OOL=0.8; frons above antennal sockets and marlar space densely and finely punctate, remainder of head largely smooth with sparse and fine punctures; A3 3.0 × longer than wide; A4 5.0 × longer than wide, and 1.6 × longer than A3; A5 5.4 × longer than wide, and 1.7 × longer than A3.

Mesosoma. Pronotum coarsely areolate-rugose, with one anterior short tooth-like process on each lateroventral margin; propleuron dull, largely finely rugose with small smooth area posterodorsally; mesoscutum transverse-carinate anteriorly, coarsely areolate-rugose posterior to notauli, anterior part emarginate medially, rounded laterally; notauli deep and wide posteriorly, becoming narrower anteriorly; scutellum transverse-carinate in middle, coarsely rugose on posterior margin; axillae, metanotum and propodeum coarsely areolate-rugose; mesopleuron mostly coarsely areolate-rugose with small rugose area anteriodorsally; metapleuron coarsely areolate-rugose; forewing with vein 2-rs+m long, cells SM2 and D1 distantly separated; hind wing with veins distinct, cells Cu and R1+Rs contiguous; hind coxa transverse-carinate; hind basitarsus 9.6 × longer than wide, and 1.2 × of tarsomeres 2-5; pretarsal claw with four tooth-like processes.

Metasoma. Smooth, shining, with fine white pubescence on segment 3 to apex; petiole elongate, slender, 3.5 × longer than wide.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Shaanxi).

Biology.

Collected in June. Host not known.