Paraphylax sakabei Momoi, 1966

Watanabe, Kyohei, 2021, Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Study of the Japanese Phygadeuontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 17 New Species, Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 50, pp. 55-136 : 84-86

Paraphylax sakabei Momoi, 1966

(SJN: Sakabe-minoga-togari-himebachi)

( Figs 25A–C )

Paraphylax sakabei Momoi, 1966a: 54 .

Description. See Momoi (1966a).

Materials examined. JAPAN: MNHAH, F (holotype), Mie Pref., Ohmiya , 15–20. V. 1962, em. from Fumea sp ., M. Sakabe leg.; KPM-NK 81902 , 55086 , 2 F, Kagoshima Pref., Yakushima Is. , Mt. Aikodake , 30. III. – 29. IV. 2007, T. Yamauchi et al. leg. ( MsT); KPM-NK 55087 , F, ditto, 29. IV. – 1. V. 2007; KPM-NK 55088 , 55089 , 2 F, Kagoshima Pref., Yakushima Is. , Kankake, 28. IV. –1. V. 2007, T. Yamauchi et al. leg.; KPM-NK 81903 , F, Kagoshima Pref., Yakushima Is. , Hanyama, 28. IV. – 1. V. 2007, T. Yamauchi et al. leg. ( MsT) .

Distribution. Japan (Honshu and Yakushima Is.*).

Bionomics. Host record: Psychidae sp. ( Lepidoptera ) (Momoi, 1966).

Remarks. This is the first record of this species from Yakushima Island.

Figures

Fig. 25. Paraphylax sakabei Momoi, 1966, KPM-NK 81902, female from Japan ―A, lateral habitus; B, head, frontal view; C, metasoma, dorsal view.