Proterops nigripennis Wesmael, 1835

Achterberg, C. van & Chenon, R. Desmier de, 2009, The first report of the biology of Proterops borneoensis Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Ichneutinae), with the description of a new species from China, Journal of Natural History 43 (11 - 12), pp. 619-633 : 630

Proterops nigripennis Wesmael, 1835

( Figures 1 A–L, 5H)

Proterops nigripennis Wesmael, 1835, p. 202 ; Shenefelt, 1973, p. 811–812.

Notes

Korean specimens present in the MTMA collection have the setae on the posterior half of the propodeum pale yellowish (but in one female all setae are dark brown), the apex of the ovipositor sheath dark brown (as in a Bulgarian female in MTMA; but normally in specimens from northwest and central Europe the apex is yellowish), the mandible, the malar space ventrally and the clypeus brown (but in one female from Korea this was black); the clypeus flattened, without a weak medial convexity and ventrally gradually depressed as in West Palaearctic P. nigripennis .

Distribution

North and Central Europe, Italy (south to Sicily), Russia (north and central, far east), North Korea, Japan and China [Helongjiang, Jilin, Xizang (5 Tibet)].

Figures

Figure 1. Proterops nigripennis Wesmael, female, The Netherlands, Uffelte. (A) Wings. (B) Outer hind claw. (C) Scapus and pedicellus, lateral aspect. (D) Hind leg. (E) Head, dorsal aspect. (F) Mesosoma, dorsal aspect. (G) Head, anterior aspect. (H) Detail of vein 1-M of fore wing. (I) Apex of antenna. (J) Antenna. (K) Habitus, lateral aspect. (L) First to third metasomal tergites, dorsal aspect. Scale bars: 1.0X(A,D,J,K); 5.0X(B,C,I); 2.0X(E,G,H); 1.3X(F, L).