Pachyprotasis variegata ( Fallén, 1808 )

Zhong, Yihai, Li, Zejian & Wei, Meicai, 2021, Review of the Pachyprotasis flavipes group (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) from China with descriptions of two new species, Zoologia (e 59733) 38, pp. 1-50 : 3

Pachyprotasis variegata ( Fallén, 1808)

Figs 11–28

Tenthredo variegata Fallén, 1808: 99–100 .

Pachyprotasis variegata : Cameron, 1882: 125; Costa, 1894: 178– 179; Enslin, 1917: 134–135; Malaise, 1931: 134–135; Berland, 1947: 155–156; Muche, 1967: 9; Scobiola-Palade, 1978: 199–200, fig. 200; Vassilev, 1978; 92–93; Zhelochovtsev, 1993: 342–343; Lee et al., 2000: 172, figs 203, 211; Magis, 2008: 102.

Diagnosis. Female ( Figs 11–20). Body length 9 mm. This species can be distinguished from other similar species of the P. flavipes group by the following characters: mesopleuron white, upper corner black, lower part with broad black horizontal band; lateral part of median mesoscutal lobe white; all of laterotergite white; metacoxa and metatrochanter white, metafemur and metatibia reddish-brown, basal 1/5 of metafemur white, apical 1/5 black; punctures on mesepistermon deep and large.

Male ( Figs 21–28). Body length 8 mm. Color and structure similar to female, except: V-spot on median mesoscutal lobe narrower; posterior part of terga 1–8 each with a medial triangular white spot; ventral side of each coxa with irregular black spot; antennomeres strongly compressed.

Variation. Body length of female 8–9 mm.

Non-type material. 2♀, 1♂, Salzburg Gro Bortltal Hutlschlag. ZW. Karteis U. Muhlegg, 1050–1280 m, 29. V .1992., coll. Neumayer Johann ( ASMN) .

Distribution. North of China (Gansu), Japan, Mongolia, most countries of Europe, Siberia.