Pachyprotasis subtilis Malaise, 1945

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 : 35-37

Pachyprotasis subtilis Malaise, 1945

Figs 253–270

Pachyprotasis subtilis Malaise, 1945:150 ; Wei, 2006: 622; Saini & Kalia, 1989: 151–152, figs 140, 145, 154, 166, 176, 167, 176; Saini, 2007: 72, figs 161, 164, 168, 175, 177, 185, 194, 204.

Diagnosis. Female ( Figs 253–262). Body length 8.0 mm. This species can be distinguished from other similar species of the P. flavipes group by the following characters: mesepisternum black, without white; terga black, extreme apex of each tergum white; hind coxa, apical 2/3 of femur and tibia except extreme apex reddish-brown, trochanter, basal 1/3 of femur, apex of tarsomere 1 to base of tarsomere 5 white, outer part of trochanter and femur with black narrow band; punctures on mesepisternum moderate.

Male ( Figs 263–270). Body length 7.0 mm. Color and structure similar to female, except: tegula white, apex black; fore and middle legs white, outer base of coxae, dorsal side of femora to tarsi with narrow black stripes, metacoxa blackish-brown, dorsal part reddish-brown; antennomeres strongly compressed.

Variation. Body length of female 7.5–8.5 mm and male 6.5–7.5 mm.

Distribution. China (Gansu, Guizhou, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan), Burma-Yunnan frontier, India.

Non-type material. 2♀, 1♂, China, Henan province, Songxian , 33°54’N, 111°59’E, 15–18-VII-1996, Meicai WEI leg .; 4♀, China, Henan province, Neixiang, Mt. Baotianman , 33°30’N, 111°56’E, alt. 1300–1600 m, 12–17-VII-1998, Meicai WEI et. leg .; 3♀, China, Henan province, Songxian, Mt. Baiyun , 33°54’N, 111°59’E, alt. 1500–1600 m, 18–22-VII-2002, Jigang JIANG leg.; 13♀, China, Henan province, Songxian, Mt. Baiyun , 33°54’N, 111°59’E, alt. 1300–1600 m, 13–15-VII-2004, Shaobing ZHANG &Weixing LIU leg.; 5♀, China, Henan province, Neixiang, Mt. Baotianman , 33°30’N, 111°56’E, alt. 1300–1700 m, 22–24-VII-2004, Shaobing ZHANG &Weixing LIU leg.; 1♀, China, Henan province, Neixiang, Mt. Baotianman , 33°30’N, 111°56’E, alt. 1300 m, 2-VI-2006, Yihai ZHONG leg.; 2♀, China, Gansu province, Tianshui, Forestry Farm , 34°22’N, 106°01’E, alt. 1330 m, 10-VII-2009, Xun ZHU leg .; 1♀, China, Shaanxi province, Huayin, Mt. Hua , 34°29’N, 110°00’E, alt. 1300–1600 m, 12-VII-2005, Xun ZHU leg .; 1♀, China, Guizhou province, Mt. Fanjin , 28°00’N, 108°04’E, 13-VII-1983, Xuexin CHEN leg.; 1♀, China, Sichuan province, Chongzhou, Mt. Anzihe, Lihuan , 30°46’N, 103°13’E, alt. 1750 m, 21-VII-2016,Kaiwen GAO leg. ( ASMN) .