Gasteruption amoyense Pasteels, 1958

Tan, Jiang-Li, Achterberg, Cornelis van, Wu, Jia-Xuan, Wang, Hang & Zhang, Qi-Jing, 2021, An illustrated key to the species of Gasteruption Latreille (Hymenoptera, Gasteruptiidae) from Palaearctic China, with description of four new species, ZooKeys 1038, pp. 1-103 : 1

Gasteruption amoyense Pasteels, 1958 Figs 13-17 , 18-26

Gasteruption amoyense Pasteels, 1958: 178-179; Zhao et al. 2012: 17-19.

Gasteruption curiosum Pasteels, 1958: 177-178; Zhao et al. 2012: 17 (synonymised with G. amoyense Pasteels, 1958).

Additional material.

1 ♀ (NWUX), "NW China: Shaanxi, Taibai Mt., Haopingsi, Meixian [= part of Baoji ], Shangbaiyun , 4.viii.2017, Jiangli Tan, NWUX" ; 1 ♀ (RMNH), "NW China: Shaanxi, Xunyangba, Ningshaan , 33.55°N 108.55°E, 16.viii.2016, 1481 m alt., JL Tan & T Zhou, NWUX" ; 1 ♀ (NWUX), "S China: Fujian, Huboliao NNR, Letu , 24.54°N 117.12°E, Mal. trap, viii.2015, alt. 300 m alt., Qingqing Tan, NWUX" .

Notes.

Similar to the West Palaearctic G. syriacum Szépligeti, 1903, because of the slender pronotum (Fig. 19 ), the elongate head (Fig. 25 ), the distinctly inflated hind tibia (Fig. 26 ) and the yellowish or orange mandibles, but differs mainly by the very fine granulate-coriaceous sculpture of the mesoscutum with only sparse (and often shallow) punctures, in addition to smaller ocelli. Gasteruption syriacum has the mesoscutum coarser punctate and the interspaces are only finely punctulate or somewhat coriaceous and the ocelli are large ( van Achterberg and Talebi 2014).

Distribution.

China (Fujian, Hong Kong, Hunan, Shaanxi, Zhejiang). New for Shaanxi and Fujian; Shaanxi is the first record from the Palaearctic Region.

Figures

Figures 13 - 17. Gasteruption amoyense Pasteels, female, Shaanxi 13 habitus lateral 14 propleuron ventral 15 apex of ovipositor 16 apex of antenna 17 base of antenna.

Figures 18 - 26. Gasteruption amoyense Pasteels, female, Shaanxi 18 head lateral 19 mesosoma lateral 20 mesosoma dorsal 21 wings 22 apex of metasoma ventral 23 apex of ovipositor sheath lateral 24 head anterior 25 head dorsal 26 hind leg lateral.