Mesopolobus subfumatus ( Ratzeburg, 1852 )

Xiao, Hui, Sun, Lei, Jiao, Tianyang & Li, Zi, 2016, A revision of Chinese species of Mesopolobus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) with descriptions of four new species from China, Zoological Systematics 41 (1), pp. 64-81 : 74

Mesopolobus subfumatus ( Ratzeburg, 1852) ( Fig. 24 )

Pteromalus subfumatus Ratzeburg, 1852: 236 .

Mesopolobus subfumatus (Ratzeburg) : Rosen, 1958: 223; Graham, 1969: 678; Kamijo, 1982: 71.

Synonymy: Eutelus punctiger Thomson, 1878: 75 ; Platyterma ecksteini Wolff, 1916: 166 , 168–169; Pteromalus matsukemushii Matsumura, 1926: 42 ; Eutelus tabatae Ishii,1938: 99 .

Material examined. China. 2♀, Jilin, Changbai Mountain , 5 July 1978, coll. Dingxi Liao ; 1♂, Jilin, Changbai Mountain , 2 100 m, 25 July 1990, coll. Dawei Huang ; 1♀ 2♂, Shandong, Linqing , 1 September 1952, coll. Dingxi Liao ; 3♀, Yunnan, Lijiang, Ludian , 3 200 m, 15 August 1984, coll. Changfang Li. United States . 3♀, Frische Nehrung, Zool. Inst. Hann. Munden. , 1936, coll. F.A.; Germany , 1♀, Celle ( Hannov. )., O. Eichhorn. I. Gen., 1978, Cocoon Diprimpimi CIE A.10538., det, Bouček, 1988 .

Biology. The species was recorded attacking the cocoons of Diprion ( Hymenoptera : Diprionidae ), occasionally as hyperparasitoid via Ichneumonidae or Braconidae ( Graham, 1969) . Our specimens parasited of egg of Dendrolimus ( Lepidoptera : Lasiocampidae ).

Distribution. China (Jilin, Shandong, Yunnan); Palearctic and Nearctic Regions ( Noyes, 2014).

Figures

Figures 17–26. Mesopolobus spp. 17. M. prasinus (Walker), body dorsal. 18. M. rhabdophagae (Graham), body and fore wing dorsal. 19–22. M. changbaicus Xiao, sp. nov. female. 19. Thorax dorsal. 20. Body laterial. 21. Head frontal. 22. Fore wing. 23. M. semenis Askew, body dorsal. 24. M. subfumatus (Ratzeburg), body laterial. 25. M. teliformis (Walker), body dorsal. 26. M. tibialis (Westwood), body dorsal.