Allodynerus asperipunctarus Zhang, Chen & Li, 2020

Zhang, Xue, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2020, A taxonomic revision of Allodynerus Blüthgen (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from China, Zootaxa 4750 (4), pp. 545-559 : 553-554

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.4.5

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3717986

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C787CE-FF88-FFE0-1FCB-FCF4FD7A8FD5

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scientific name

Allodynerus asperipunctarus Zhang, Chen & Li
status

sp. nov.

Allodynerus asperipunctarus Zhang, Chen & Li , sp. nov.

( Figs 27–36 View FIGURES 27–36 )

Material examined. Holotype, 1♂, China, Yunnan prov., Wenshan City, Maguan County, Diba Village , 23°7′30″N, 104°22′56″E, 1280 m, 21.VII.2015, Chunfa Chen ( CQNU); paratype, 1♂, same label as holotype ( CQNU). GoogleMaps

Description. Male ( Fig. 27 View FIGURES 27–36 ). Body length 6.77–6.80 mm. Body black, following parts yellow: clypeus ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 27–36 ), mandible, a thin and short band along lower inner eye orbit, inter-antennal spot, ventral side of scape, an elongated band on temple, an anterior interrupted transverse band on pronotum, small spot on mesepisternum, spots on outside of tegula anteriorly and posteriorly ( Fig. 27 View FIGURES 27–36 ), tiny spot on metanotum, apical bands of terga I–II and sternum II, an small apical spot on tergum III mesally, spot on mid coxa ventrally, and apical markings on outer sides of fore and mid femora and tibiae; tarsi brown to dark brown; wings lightly infuscate. Body with dense white setae, setae on propodeum relatively longer than those of other pars.

Head. Clypeus 1.16× as wide as long in frontal view, with dense punctures, apex deeply emarginate, with two lateral sharp teeth, emargination width about 1/4 of clypeal width ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 27–36 ); mandible normal, third tooth of mandible without one deep incision; terminal antennal segment hooked and bent backward to the base of segment XI ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 27–36 ); frons, vertex and temple with reticulate punctures, punctures on frons relatively denser than those on other parts of head ( Fig. 29 View FIGURES 27–36 ).

Mesosoma. Mesosoma with coarse punctures, punctures similar to or somewhat coarser than those on head; pronotal humeral angle blunt, dorsal face with distinctly reticulate punctures ( Fig. 29 View FIGURES 27–36 ); setae at upper part of mesonotum not brush-like in lateral view; mesopleuron with reticulate punctures ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 27–36 ); scutellum flat, rectangle and with coarse punctures, punctures at base slightly sparser; metanotum coarsely punctate, distinctly coarser than scutellum, slightly concave mesally; dorsal surface of propodeum with honeycomb punctures, upper part of lateral face with shallow honeycomb punctures and other part coriaceous ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 27–36 ); posterior face of propodeum with densely minute striae and median longitudinal carina ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 27–36 ); ventral side of fore trochanter and femur with short and dense setae.

Metasoma. Tergum I ( Fig. 33 View FIGURES 27–36 ) much wider than long, 1.50× as wide as long in dorsal view, distinctly with coarse, large and dense punctures, gradually smaller and sparser from base to apex; tergum II coarsely punctate, punctures a little sparser than those of tergum I, apex with a row of deeper punctures forming a transverse groove, and without a bent apical lamella behind groove ( Fig. 33 View FIGURES 27–36 ); sternum II ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 27–36 ) convex basally, with coarse punctures, punctures basally sparser than those at apex; punctures at visible part of metasomal segment III denser than those of segment II; genitalia as in figure 35: apex of volsella long, narrow and strongly sharp, penis valve as in figure 36: ventral lobe of penile valve slightly erect and basal apodeme curved from base to apex and with a small bulge near the base, basal plate of penile valve claviform, gradually narrowed at apex.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Remarks. This species is allied to A. mandschuricus Blüthgen, 1953 , in body with similar yellow markings, clypeus densely punctate and clypeal apex deeply emarginate. It can be distinguished from A. mandschuricus and all the other members of Allodynerus by the following character combination: mesopleuron with denser punctures ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 27–36 ) (relatively sparser in Fig. 55 of A. mandschuricus ), punctures of metasomal segment I and II coarser than those of the related species ( Figs 33–34 View FIGURES 27–36 , 59–60), and apex of volsella long, narrow and very sharp ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 27–36 ) (apex of volsella short, wide and at most pointed in Fig. 57 of A. mandschuricus ).

Etymology. The specific name asperipunctarus is derived from two Latin words: asper (=coarse) and punctara (=punctures), referring to body with coarse punctures.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Allodynerus

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