Gasteruption japonicum Cameron, 1888

Tan, Jiang-Li, Achterberg, Cornelis van, Tan, Qing-Qing & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2016, Four new species of Gasteruption Latreille from NW China, with an illustrated key to the species from Palaearctic China (Hymenoptera, Gasteruptiidae), ZooKeys 612, pp. 51-112 : 92

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Gasteruptiidae

Gasteruption japonicum Cameron, 1888 Figs 49, 50-57

Gasteruption japonicum Cameron, 1888: 134; Zhao et al. 2012: 58-61.

Gasteruption sinense var. minus Kieffer, 1924: 78; Zhao et al. 2012: 58 (synonymized with Gasteruption japonicum ).

Material.

2♀ (NWUX, RMNH), China: Shaanxi, Hanzhong, Nanzheng, Liping National Forest Park, N32°44'04" E106°36'34", 22.vi.2015, c 1620 m, Jiangli Tan & C. van Achterberg; 1♀ (NWUX), China: Shaanxi, along the road from Hanzhong to Liping, N32.87° E106.71°, 4.ix.2015, c 1377 m, Jiangli Tan; 1♂ (NWUX), China: Hubei, Yichang, Yiling, Chentangping, Mal. trap, 17.v.10.vii.2015, c 465 m, Haoliang Ni; 1♀ (NWUX), China: Shaanxi, Foping, behind Biological Station, Malaise trap, N33°39'29" E107°48'25", 29.v.19.vi.2016, c 1710 m, JL. Tan & C. v. Achterberg.

Notes.

The lectotype female of Gasteruption rufescenticorne Enderlein, 1913, is obviously different from the paralectotype male (e.g. head not emarginate medio-posteriorly and more narrowed, narrower occipital carina and different sculpture of mesoscutum) and is very similar to Gasteruption japonicum . The differences as indicated in the key could be part of gradual variation and after examination of more Japanese material its status may need reconsideration.