Metopheltes petiolaris Uchida, 1932

Reshchikov, Alexey & van Achterberg, Kees, 2014, Review of the genus Metopheltes Uchida, 1932 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) with description of a new species from Vietnam, Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1061-1061 : 1061

Metopheltes petiolaris Uchida, 1932

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: T. Fukai; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: country: Japan; stateProvince: Wakasa; Record Level: institutionCode: USNM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Zhelokhovtsev; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Primorsky Krai; verbatimLocality: Spassk-Dalny; Event: eventDate: 17.vi.1961; Record Level: institutionCode: ZMUM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Romanov; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Primorsky Krai; verbatimLocality: around Vladivostok; Event: eventDate: 28.vi.1940; Record Level: institutionCode: ZMUM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Rasnitsyn; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Primorsky Krai; verbatimLocality: Khasansky District, Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve; Event: eventDate: 6.vi.1962; Record Level: institutionCode: ZMUM

Diagnosis

This species differs from the other two members of Metopheltes by the following combination of character states: first flagellomere longer (6.0 times as long as wide) than in other species; ventrally clypeus not serrate; posterior ocellus separated from eye by 1.7 times its maximum diameter; frontal carina between eye and antennal socket absent; upper hind part of mesopleuron punctate; apical margin of middle tibia with distinct tooth similar to that on fore tibia; posterior hind tibial spur at least 6.0 times longer than maximum basal width; hind femur and tibia 10.0 and 11.0 times as long as wide, respectively; tarsal claws long and pectinate with long teeth (Fig. 5c); propodeum acclivous (Fig. 5c), not precipitous like in Metopheltes clypeoarmatus sp. n. (Fig. 2a), its carinae incomplete, only area apicalis defined (Fig. 5b); first metasomal tergite 0.6 times wider than long; ovipositor with shallow notch and weak nodus.

Distribution

Japan, Russian Far East (first record).