Xorides sapporensis (Uchida, 1928)

Sun, Shu-Ping, Lü, Jun, Broad, Gavin R., Li, Tao & Sheng, Mao-Ling, 2023, Two new species of Xorides Latreille (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from China, with notes on biology and a key to species known from China, European Journal of Taxonomy 890 (1), pp. 115-135 : 132-133

Xorides sapporensis (Uchida, 1928)

Diagnosis

Lower portion of gena with longitudinal wrinkles. Postocellar line approximately 1.7× as long as ocular-ocellar line. Frons ventrally with dense transverse wrinkles. Antenna with 20–21 flagellomeres. Pterostigma short and wide, approximately 3 × as long as wide. Latero-median carinae of first tergite reaching to hind margin of first tergite. Tergites 2 and 3 posteriorly transversely aciculate. Fore wing beneath pterostigma with ill-defined infumate spot. Mesosoma, femora and tergites 1–3 entirely black. Tergites 4–6 with white posterior, lateral spots in females.

Material examined

CHINA • 3 ♀♀, 3 ♂♂; Kuandian, Liaoning ; 2 Jun. 2001; Mao-Ling Sheng leg.; CBDPC • 1 ♀; same locality as for preceding; 6 Jun. 2007; Mao-Ling Sheng leg.; CBDPC • 1 ♀; same locality as for preceding; 11 Sep. 2015; Mao-Ling Sheng leg.; CBDPC • 1 ♀, 3 ♂♂; same locality as for preceding; 3 Feb. 2017; reared from borers in trunks of Juglans mandshurica Maxim. ; Jun Lü leg.; CBDPC .

Biology

Host. Wood-boring insects in trunks of Juglans mandshurica Maxim. (Juglandaceae) , previously reared from Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, 1888 ( Coleoptera : Buprestidae ), Pterolophia alternata Gressitt, 1938 ( Sheng & Sun 2010, 2014; Sheng et al. 2022) and Mesosa curculionoides (Linnaeus, 1761) ( Coleoptera : Cerambycidae ) ( Yu et al. 2016).

Host food. Juglans mandshurica Maxim. , new host food record; Robinia pseudoacacia L., Fraxinus mandschurica Rupr. ( Sheng & Sun 2010, 2014; Sheng et al. 2022).