Pachyprotasis pallens Malaise, 1945

Zhong, Yihai & Wei, Meicai, 2012, A review of the Pachyprotasis pallidistigma species group (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 3242, pp. 1-38 : 7-8

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( Figs 15, 16 View FIGURES 13 – 16 , 17, 18 View FIGURES 17 – 20 , 47, 48 View FIGURES 46 – 52 , 64, 65 View FIGURES 59 – 67 , 79, 91, 99, 104, 109)

Pachyprotasis pallens Malaise, 1945: 144 –145; [male, female], type locality: Kambaiti, 2000 m, Myanmar. Pachyprotasis pallens: Saini & Kalia 1989: 147 –148, figs 140, 145, 154, 166, 176; Saini 2007: 68 –69, figs 159, 163, 167, 175, 179, 195, 198.

= Pachyprotasis similis B. Singh in Singh, Dhillon, Singh & Saini, 1987: 34 –36; type locality: Himachal Pradesh: Manali, 2300 m, India.

= Pachyprotasis smithi B. Singh in Singh, Dhillon, Singh & Saini, 1987: 33 –34; type locality: Himachal Pradesh: Dalhousie, Kalatop, 2400 m, India.

Material examined. China. Sichuan Province: 2 Ƥ, Jindin, Mt. Emei (103°04ʹE, 29°06ʹN, alt. 3000 m), 18.08.2001, Meicai Wei leg.; 5 Ƥ, Leidongping, Mt. Emei (103°04ʹE, 29°06ʹN, alt. 2045 m), 12.06.2007, Shaobin Zhang, Yihai Zhong, Liu Fei leg.; 1 3, Jinding, Mt. Emei (103°04ʹE, 29°06ʹN, alt. 3077 m), 13.06.2007, Shaobin Zhang leg.; Yunnan Province: 1 Ƥ, Mt. Yulong, Maoniuping, Lijiang (100°15ʹE, 26°52ʹN, alt. 3100 m), 23.07.2004, Wei Xiao leg.; Tibet Province: 1 Ƥ, Lage (93°37ʹE, 29°45ʹN, alt. 3383 m), 22.08.1977, Jianyi Wu leg.; 1 Ƥ, Lage (93°37ʹE, 29°45ʹN, alt. 3370 m), 17.07.1979, Jianyi Wu leg.; 1 Ƥ, Meituo (95°31ʹE, 29°31ʹN, alt. 3000 m), 13.08.2003, Meicai Wei leg.

Distribution. China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet) ( Fig. 109 View FIGURE 109 ); India, Myanmar.

Female ( Figs 15, 16 View FIGURES 13 – 16 ): Body length 6–6.5 mm. Muddy yellow, black are: a narrow V-shaped spot on ocellar area continuing with posterior half of frons, dorsal part of antenna, three narrow bands each on mesonotal middle and lateral lobe, lower part of parapsis. Legs muddy yellow, black are: a narrow stripe each on dorsal part of all legs from apical half of femur to claw, apex of metatibia, apical half of each hind tarsomere. Wings hyaline, fore wing vein C and stigma muddy yellow, others veins dark brown. Punctures on dorsal part of head extremely minute, shallow, luster indistinct; punctures on mesepisternum shallow, minute and scattered, interspaces polished, strongly shiny; mesoscutellum polished, without punctures and microsculpture, strongly shiny. Malar space 2 times diameter of median ocellus; median fovea ditch-like, shallow; postocellar area elevated, 1.5 times as broad as long ( Figs 47 View FIGURES 46 – 52 , 64 View FIGURES 59 – 67 ); antenna shorter than combined length of thorax and abdomen, flagellomere 1 about 1.1 times length of flagellomere 2; mesoscutellum prismaticly elevated, with shallow middle furrow. Ovipositor sheath shorter than hind tarsomere 1 in lateral view, valvula 3 sub-round at apex and longer than valvifer 2 in lateral view. Lancet with 21 serrulae (Fig. 79), base of each serrula oblique, middle serrula each with 2 basal denticles and 11–14 small distal denticles (Fig. 91).

Male. ( Figs 17, 18 View FIGURES 17 – 20 , 48 View FIGURES 46 – 52 , 65 View FIGURES 59 – 67 ): Body length 5.5 mm. Color and structure similar to female, otherwise: black spot on dorsal part of head large; outer side of hind legs with black stripe from base of coxa to apex of femur; flagellum strongly compressed; gonoforceps and penis valve as in Figs 99, 104 View FIGURES 98 – 106 .