Pamphilius heecheonparki Shinohara, 1998

Shinohara, Akihiko, Kramp, Katja & Taeger, Andreas, 2022, The Pamphiliinae of the Russian Far East and Korea (Hymenoptera, Pamphiliidae), Zootaxa 5167 (1), pp. 1-251 : 89-90

Pamphilius heecheonparki Shinohara, 1998

( Figs 77 , 78 ) (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11405187)

Pamphilius heecheonparki Shinohara, 1998: 229 ; Shinohara, 2002b: 429; Shinohara, 2004: 264; Shinohara & Lelej, 2007: 939, 941; Sundukov, 2009: 213; Taeger et al., 2010: 86; Sundukov & Lelej, 2012: 109; Sundukov, 2017: 104; Lee et al., 2019: 9 .

Material examined. About 685 specimens, including the type series, almost all from the Russian Far East and South Korea ( Shinohara 1998; National Museum of Nature and Science 2021; present work). New collection data: SOUTH KOREA: Gangwon-do: 4♀ 7♂ (incl. 30771–30775), Mirugam (Bukdaesa), 1300m, Odaesan Mts., 25. V.–1. VI . 2008 , A. Shinohara ( NSMT); 5♀ 86♂ (incl. NSMT 30855 ), same locality, 27. V.–5. VI . 2009 , A. Shinohara ( NSMT); 4♀ 38♂, same locality, 11–18. VI . 2010 , A. Shinohara ( NSMT).

Distribution. Russia (Irkutskaya oblast, Yakutia, Khabarovskij Kraj, Primorskij Kraj), North and South Korea ( Shinohara 1998).

Host plant. Unknown. Many of the specimens from Odaesan Mts., South Korea, were swept from the foliage of Padus sp. (Rosaceae) , which may possibly be a host plant of this species.

Remarks. This species is well characterized by the large elongate glabrous ovipositor sheath appendage ( Fig. 77h) in the female and the anchor-like penis valve ( Fig. 11 : 61a) in the male. Shinohara (1998) included this species in his P. albopictus subgroup of the P. vafer group but later he (2002b) proposed the P. heecheonparki subgroup for this species alone.

In our molecular analysis, the six available COI sequences of this species from South Korea were identical and the maximum intraspecific p -distance among the six NaK sequences was 0.2%. The nearest neighbour was P. kamikochensis (a member of the P. albopictus subgroup), diverging by a minimum of 3.2% in the COI analysis and P. masao (members of the P. vafer subgroup) by a minimum of 0.5% in the NaK analysis. In the COI tree ( Fig. 148 ), P. heecheonparki was retrieved as the sister group of P. albopictus + P. kamikochensis + P. leleji with 89% UFBoot support, whereas in the NaK tree ( Fig. 161 ) P. heecheonparki was sister to the cluster of P. stramineipes + P. togashii (with only 58% UFBoot support) with very low UFBoot value of 42%.

Figures

FIGURE 11. Key to Pamphilius species 6

FIGURE 77. Pamphilius heecheonparki, female, Korea (paratype) – (a) dorsally, (b) lateroventrally, (c) head & thorax dorsally, (d) head & thorax ventrolaterally, (e) face, (f) antenna, (g) claw, (h) sawsheath laterally.

FIGURE 78. Pamphilius heecheonparki, male, Korea (paratype) – (a) dorsally, (b) lateroventrally, (c) head & thorax dorsally, (d) head & thorax ventrolaterally, (e) face, (f) antenna, (g) genitalia dorsally, (h) genitalia ventrally, (i) claw.

FIGURE 148. Condensed ML tree based on CO1 gene sequences, with details of Pamphilius vafer group, part 1.

FIGURE 161. Condensed ML tree based on NaK gene sequences, with details of Pamphilius vafer group, part 2.