Apenesia elegans Terayama, 1999

Lim, Jongok, Terayama, Mamoru, Koh, Sanghyun, Lee, Jongwook & Lee, Seunghwan, 2011, A taxonomic review of the subfamily Pristocerinae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea: Bethylidae) from Korea with descriptions of two new species, Journal of Natural History 45 (7 - 8), pp. 435-460 : 440-441

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( Figure 2A–J View Figure 2 , Table 2)

Apenesia elegans Terayama 1999b: 703 .

Specimens examined

[ Korea] (CALS SNU): 1 male, Cheonggae, Makgye-dong, Gwacheon-si , GG, 22 September 2000, H.G. Kang leg. ; 2 males, Donam-ri, Banpo-myeon, Gongju-si , CN, 6–13 September 2005, MT, Y.T. Kim leg. ; 1 male, Jeolmul Recreation Forest, Donggye-myeon, Jeju-si , JJ, 16 June–23 July 2005, MT, C.H. Shin leg. ; 1 male, ditto, 13–20 August 2005, MT, C.H. Shin leg. ; [ Japan] ( NIAES): 1 male, Kunigami , Okinawa, 10–11 October 1988, K. Konishi leg. (Paratype) .

Redescription (male)

Colour. Body testaceous to black. Head: mandible yellow with apical margin testaceous; antenna yellow to pale testaceous. Mesosoma : pronotum and mesonotum dark testaceous; propodeum black; forewing hyaline, wing veins testaceous; coxa, femora, and tibia pale testaceous; tarsal segments yellow. Metasoma: entirely testaceous.

Morphology. Body ( Figure 2A View Figure 2 ) 4.32 mm long.

Head ( Figure 2B–D View Figure 2 ): 1.0 × as long as wide, with straight posterior margin and dorsolateral corner forming round angle in full face view; frons and vertex smooth and moderately punctate, separated from each other by about 2.0–3.0 × as long as their diameter; mandible with four sharp teeth ( Figure 2C View Figure 2 ); anterior margin of clypeus broadly rounded with minute median stalk; from scape to flagellomere III in ratio of 3.7: 1.0: 2.1: 2.0: 1.9 in length; from scape to flagellomere III and XI 3.8, 1.3, 3.1, 2.7, 2.5 and 3.7 × as long as wide respectively ( Figure 2D View Figure 2 ); compound eye 0.34 mm long with sparse, short, erect hairs; LE 1.6 × as wide as OOL; WF 2.4 × as wide as WOT; anterior angle of ocellar triangle obtuse, POL 1.2 × as wide as AOL, OOL 1.3 × as wide as WOT ( Figure 2B View Figure 2 ).

Mesosoma ( Figure 2E–G View Figure 2 ): pronotum 0.5 × as long as wide without anterior transverse carina, mesoscutum smooth and shining with punctures as head; scutellar disc with few punctures ( Figure 2E View Figure 2 ); propodeal disc as long as wide with subparallel sides in dorsal view. Median discal carina present, median area with strong transverse and oblique rugae, sublateral area and propodeal declivity strongly reticulate, transverse carina absent ( Figure 2F View Figure 2 ). Forewing: metacarpus about 1.2 × as long as pterostigma, discoidal vein arising slightly down on transverse median vein ( Figure 2G View Figure 2 ).

Metasoma ( Figure 2H View Figure 2 ): petiolate, rather smooth and subopaque.

Genitalia ( Figure 2I–J View Figure 2 ): paramere long and thin and widest at distal part, inner margin with ten or eleven short hairs and distal margin with few hairs, volsella short, about half length of paramere with few hairs, aedeagus bottle-shaped, basal margin rounded, digitus rounded outward ( Figure 2I View Figure 2 ), hypopygium with round lateral-distal margin ( Figure 2J View Figure 2 ).

Measurements. See Table 2 for biometric measurement data.

Distribution

South Korea ( GG, CN, JJ; new record); Japan (Honshu, Ryukyus (Amami Is., Okinawa Is. )) ( Terayama 2006) ; China (Hubei, Zhejiang, Liaoning) ( Xu, Terayama et al. 2002) .