Apanteles usipetes Nixon, 1965

Liu, Zhen, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin & Gupta, Ankita, 2020, The ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from China with the descriptions of forty-eight new species, Zootaxa 4807 (1), pp. 1-205 : 169-172

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4807.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7BEAE368-A259-4C88-BAF7-099DBAAB8926

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4343279

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A88789-FF24-99D5-F197-F9A4FB68FE5A

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scientific name

Apanteles usipetes Nixon, 1965
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Apanteles usipetes Nixon, 1965 View in CoL

( Figures 84 View FIGURE 84 , 103 View FIGURE 103. 77–97 )

Apanteles usipetes Nixon, 1965: 81 View in CoL . Holotype ♀ — Sabah, Malaysia [USNM].

Diagnosis. The transverse tangent to anterior ocellus virtually touching posterior ocelli; edge of vannal lobe beyond its widest point not concave and with at most a few hardly visible, slightly projecting hairs; eyes large, close together on face; penultimate flagellomere hardly one and a quarter times longer than wide; hind femur dingy yellow; vertex around ocelli highly polished; face smooth, shiny; punctations of mesoscutum tending to disappear posteriorly; punctures on posterior half larger and further apart than those in front, no trace of striate-punctation at posterior end of notaulic course; mesopleuron with distinctly discrete sternaulus, weakly roughened; ovipositor sheath about one and a quarter times longer than hind tibia, hairs upstanding; metacarp fully 7.0 as long as its distance from apex of marginal cell.

Material examined. 1♀, Aotou, Mt. Wuyi , Fujian, 1983.VIII.1, Ma Yun, No. 835084 ; 2♀♀, Mt. Wuyi , Fujian, 1991.X.7, Wu Hong, Nos. 916012, 916041 ; 4♀♀, Mt. Longxi , Fujian, 1991.X.10–11, Chen Xuexin, Nos. 920247, 920257, 920302, 920544 ; 1♀, ditto, 1991.VII.1, Liu Changming, No. 20006430 ; 2♀♀, Dazhulan , Fujian, 1991. X.7, Chen Xuexin, Nos. 920368, 920329 ; 1♀, Kengshang , Fujian, 1981.VII.20, Wang Jiashe, No. 854286 ; 1♀, Dazhulan , Fujian, 1994.VII.15, Chen Xuexin, No. 941988 ; 1♀, Xichang , Sichuan, 1980.VIII.16, He Junhua, No. 802602 .

Distribution. China (Fujian, Sichuan) new record; Malaysia.

Remarks. Characters of the examined specimens agree with the published descriptions.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Apanteles

Loc

Apanteles usipetes Nixon, 1965

Liu, Zhen, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin & Gupta, Ankita 2020
2020
Loc

Apanteles usipetes

Nixon, G. E. J. 1965: 81
1965
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