Ulesta agitata (Matsumura & Uchida, 1926)

Riedel, Matthias, 2023, Notes on Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from southern China, with descriptions of one new genus and twelve new species, Contributions to Entomology 73 (2), pp. 223-248 : 223

Ulesta agitata (Matsumura & Uchida, 1926)

Material.

China, Yunnan, Tengchong , 25.016°N, 98.466°E, 1900 m elev., 1 ♂ 31.V.2009, leg. Blank, Liston, Taeger.

Remarks.

The ♂ is only briefly described so far. I add some additional information here: Body length 9.5 mm. Flagellum with 30 segments, bristle-shaped; 1st flagellar segment 3.3 × as long as wide. Tyloids on segments 7-15, oval, maximally 0.8 × as long as their segments. Hind femur 4.2 × as long as wide. Colour black. Scape, pedicel and basal flagellar segments ± reddish-brown, distal segments blackish, segments 9-12 ivory ventrally. Palps, collar and hind edge of pronotum, spot of tegula, scutellum, postscutellum and fore- and mid-coxae and trochanters ivory. Propodeum and 1st to 3rd tergites reddish-brown. Fore- and mid-legs, except coxae and trochanters, reddish; hind coxa black ventrally, brown dorsally; hind femur reddish-brown; hind tibia yellowish, narrowly brown apically; hind metatarsus cream-yellow, following tarsomeres ochreous. Wings hyaline; pterostigma brown.

Distribution.

Widespread in the Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions, known from Yunnan ( Yu et al. 2016).