Asecodes turcicum (Nees)

Li, Ming-Rui & Li, Cheng-De, 2021, A new species of Asecodes Foerster (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) and first record of A. reticulatum (Kamijo) from China, with a key to Chinese species, ZooKeys 1049, pp. 1-14 : 1

Asecodes turcicum (Nees)

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Asecodes turcicus (Nees): Hansson 1996: 162.

Closterocerus turcicus (Nees): Gumovsky 2003: 32.

Desmatocharis turcica (Nees): Graham 1959: 199.

Desmatocharis turcicus (Nees): Schauff 1991: 47.

Entedon turcicus (Nees): Walker 1839: 23.

Eulophus turcicus Nees, 1834: 155.

Teleopterus turcicus (Nees): Hansson 1994: 669.

Material examined.

2♀ [NEFU; 1 on card, 1 on slide], China , Tibet, Medog County (altitude: 1400 m), 22-29.VI. 017, Zhaxi, by Malaise trap ; 3♀ [NEFU; 2 on cards, 1 on slide], CHINA, Tibet, Medog County (altitude: 1400 m), 6-13.VII.2017, Zhaxi, by Malaise trap .

Diagnosis.

Female. Scape compressed; mesoscutellum with anterior 2/3 reticulated, posterior 1/3 smooth and shiny; fore wing hyaline with an infuscate transverse band below MV; metasoma subequal to mesosoma, shorter than head plus mesosoma (ratio length of: metasoma: head: mesosoma about 3.2: 1: 3); gaster ovate.

Host.

Unkonwn.

Distribution.

China (Tibet (new record), Gansu ( Zhang et al. 2007) and Sichuan ( Ling 2000) Provinces), Japan ( Kamijo 1986), Russia ( Gumovsky 2003), India ( Gumovsky 2003), Germany ( Nees 1834), Czechoslovakia, France, Ireland (north and south), United Kingdom, Moldova ( Bouček and Askew 1968), Netherlands ( Gijswijt 2003), Sweden ( Hansson 1991), Czech Republic ( Kalina 1989).

Comments.

See Nees (1834) for the original description, and Jamali et al. (2021) for the photographs of the neotype of Asecodes turcicum .

Figures

Figure 18. Asecodes turcicum (Nees), female 18 habitus in lateral view. Scale bar: 200 μm.