Xiphydria kastsheevi Ermolenko, 1979: 129 Zhelochovtsev & Zinovjev, 1996: 376 Lelej & Taeger, 2007: 960 Taeger et al ., 2010: 119 Sundukov & Lelej, 2012: 114 Sundukov, 2017: 116 The Xiphydria annulitibia group in northeastern Asia (Hymenoptera, Xiphydriidae) Shinohara, Akihiko Hara, Hideho Smith, David R. Zootaxa 2020 2020-03-24 4755 2 375 389  Taeger et al ., 2010: 119  Ermolenko, 1979 Ermolenko 1979 [151,624,153,180] Insecta Xiphydriidae Xiphydria GBIF Animalia Hymenoptera 11 386 Arthropoda species kastsheevi      Xiphydria kastsheevi Ermolenko, 1979: 129;  Zhelochovtsev & Zinovjev, 1996: 376;  Lelej & Taeger, 2007: 960;  Taeger et al., 2010: 119;  Sundukov & Lelej, 2012: 114;  Sundukov, 2017: 116.   Summary of taxonomic characters(after Ermolenko 1979). Female: Length with ovipositor 10.5 mm. Head capsule black, with lateral part of clypeus, lower inner orbit, lower part of gena, and stripe in posterior upper part of gena extending to level of upper margin of eye brownish white. Antenna blackish brown to black, with 15 antennomeres. Thorax black; posterior margin of pronotum marked with dark brown. Legs brown, with trochanters light brown and basal 1/3 of tibiae brownish white; basal half of tarsomere 1 of hind leg pale brown. Wings blackish infuscated with apical part of forewing hyaline; forewing with cell 3R1 closed at apex; crossvein 2r-m basal to crossvein 2m-cu on vein M; cell 2Rs about as wide as cell 1M; hindwing with cell R1 closed at apex. Abdomen black, with distinct brownish white lateral spots on terga 4–5 and 8–9 and with narrow whitish posterior margin of last tergum. Male unknown.   Distribution. Russia( Primorskij Kraj).   Host plant. Unknown.   Remarks.  Xiphydria kastsheeviis known only from the holotypefrom Chuguevskij rajon, Primorskij kraj, Russia( Ermolenko 1979). It is very close to  X. konishiiand  X. melanoptera, but is distinguished by the characters given in the key.